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.
Today is exactly one month since we travelled down to Cornwall to celebrate the nuptials of Mr & Mrs Flower. Lately our lives have been taken over by weddings – either making preparations for our…
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We visited Upton House in March 2015, just as the team was getting ready to kick off their ‘banking for victory’ season. Now over one year on, we returned to see the exhibition in full…
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I was lucky enough to receive this 2 person Vonshef wicker picnic hamper in the post some weeks ago, but pretty much every time Tom and I packed up with our best homemade grub, the…
View PostI was lucky enough to receive this 2 person Vonshef wicker picnic hamper in the post some weeks ago, but pretty much every time Tom and I packed up with our best homemade grub, the…
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After our stay at the Ragged Cot in Minchampton, we decided to take a wander around Tetbury. Tetbury is a market town famous for being the home of HRH The Prince of Wales and the…
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Earlier this month Tom and I had the pleasure of staying at the Ragged Cot in Minchampton, which isn’t far from Stroud in the Cotswolds. It was a glorious way to celebrate the end of…
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We were very excited to find out that a new tapas bar had opened in Banbury and it gave us the excellent excuse to re-live our recent holiday in the Med. Bravas Tapas Banbury also…
View PostWe were very excited to find out that a new tapas bar had opened in Banbury and it gave us the excellent excuse to re-live our recent holiday in the Med. Bravas Tapas Banbury also…
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