The Weekend Tourist

ABOUT ME

The Weekend Tourist is a blog written by Jess Friend Bartlett. Sometimes we only do touristy things on holiday - 25 days annual leave a year. That’s a shame, as we’ve 104 weekend days for exploring. This blog is all about discovering your local neighbourhood, attractions, historic places, local eateries and independents, which for me is in Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and the wider Cotswolds, UK. And when annual leave adds up, you'll find the occasional far flung adventure.

Spectacle of Light at Sudeley Castle
Spectacle of Light at Sudeley Castle
15
Dec 2016

Spectacle of Light at Sudeley Castle

The Cotswolds

It’s certainly beginning to feel very festive, as I sit here in bed, with red Scandi-pattern bedsheets and twinkling fairy lights wrapped around the bed’s headboard. But our lanterns pale into insignificance when you think…

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Spectacle of Light at Sudeley Castle

The Cotswolds

It’s certainly beginning to feel very festive, as I sit here in bed, with red Scandi-pattern bedsheets and twinkling fairy lights wrapped around the bed’s headboard. But our lanterns pale into insignificance when you think…

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Masterchef’s Billy & Jack Winter Warmer Supper Club
06
Dec 2016

Masterchef’s Billy & Jack Winter Warmer Supper Club

The Cotswolds

It was with some surprise that I heard a familiar voice of on this year’s amateur Masterchef, and not just the twang of John Torode and Greg Wallace, but that of an ol’ school chum,…

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Masterchef’s Billy & Jack Winter Warmer Supper Club
06
Dec 2016
The Lost Gardens of Heligan
25
Nov 2016
The Lost Gardens of Heligan
25
Nov 2016

The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Travel

No Cornish weekend would be complete without a visit to the Lost Gardens of Heligan, especially if you’re engaged to a gardener by trade. But the Lost Gardens of Heligan are no ordinary veg plot,…

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Appreciating Rick Stein’s Padstow
Appreciating Rick Stein’s Padstow
07
Nov 2016

Appreciating Rick Stein’s Padstow

Travel

I’m going to come right out with it… I am a Rick Stein groupie. My favourite bits on Saturday Kitchen are the Stein segments and I’ve got a whole shelf dedicated to Stein’s cookery books,…

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Appreciating Rick Stein’s Padstow

Travel

I’m going to come right out with it… I am a Rick Stein groupie. My favourite bits on Saturday Kitchen are the Stein segments and I’ve got a whole shelf dedicated to Stein’s cookery books,…

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The ruins of Tintagel Castle
22
Oct 2016
The ruins of Tintagel Castle

The ruins of Tintagel Castle

Travel

The ruins of Tintagel Castle lie just up the coast from Port Isaac. Run by the English Heritage, it is one of their top five attractions in the UK.  As you descend towards the beach…

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The ruins of Tintagel Castle

Travel

The ruins of Tintagel Castle lie just up the coast from Port Isaac. Run by the English Heritage, it is one of their top five attractions in the UK.  As you descend towards the beach…

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Pasties on Port Isaac’s quayside
Pasties on Port Isaac’s quayside
20
Oct 2016

Pasties on Port Isaac’s quayside

Travel

Wadebridge makes a good base for exploring the North Cornish coast, just 20 minutes from Padstow, 25 to Port Isaac and maybe 45 up to Tintagel. With this in mind, Tom and I set off…

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Pasties on Port Isaac’s quayside

Travel

Wadebridge makes a good base for exploring the North Cornish coast, just 20 minutes from Padstow, 25 to Port Isaac and maybe 45 up to Tintagel. With this in mind, Tom and I set off…

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