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Adventure, Book, QT Review

‘Oh, the places you’ll go!’ Life’s adventure with Dr Seuss

July 13, 2016 by Zoe Dawes 5 Comments

Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away! The opening words of ‘Oh, the places you’ll go’, a delightful little book by Dr Seuss, are positive and life-affirming. They also epitomize the philosophy of many of us who choose to set off to Great Places as...

Reading time: 3 min

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Culture, Cumbria, QT Review

On seeing ‘Nocturnal Rainbows in the English Lakes’

May 2, 2016 by Zoe Dawes 6 Comments

Nocturnal Rainbow on Coniston “If a picture paints a thousand words Then why can’t I paint you?” David Gates, BREAD Those were the words that came into my head as I tried to photo over 200 coloured LED lanterns slowly drifting across Coniston Water in the springtime dusk. Looming over the...

Reading time: 3 min

Personal, QT Review, UK

Paloma Faith wows at the Eden Project

June 28, 2015 by Zoe Dawes 5 Comments

Paloma Faith at Eden Project – photo @TheEdenSessions “We’re here at the Eden Project and we’re ready to go! I’m completely blown away by this place. Met Tim Smit today – what a guy. This place is the future …” There was no doubting the enthusiasm of quirky songstress Paloma Faith for...

Reading time: 4 min

Europe, Guide, QT Review

Plan your trip to France the easy way

June 16, 2015 by Zoe Dawes 7 Comments

My very first trip to France was with school to Paris many years ago, where the boys went off and got drunk in a bar that was perfectly happy to serve 15 and 16 year olds. The girls kept wandering off to look in shops and giggle at the handsome...

Reading time: 3 min

Accommodation, QT Review, UK

A luxurious Shepherd’s Hut in the heart of Northumberland

March 23, 2015 by Zoe Dawes 1 Comment

There are some places that are hard to find. There are some places that are hard to find and when you do, you wish you hadn’t bothered. And there are some places that are hard to find and when you do, you wish you’d never leave. That was how I...

Reading time: 2 min

Postman Pat and author John Cunliffe in Kendal Cumbria - photo Zoe Dawes

Culture, Cumbria, QT Review

Postman Pat returns home to Kendal

June 3, 2014 by Zoe Dawes 5 Comments

OK, I’d better fess up straight away. I was at the Gala Premiere of ‘Postman Pat: The Movie’ at the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, in the midst of a horde of tiny tots straining their little necks to get a glimpse of an enormous figure in a (glitzy?) blue uniform...

Reading time: 5 min

Accommodation, QT Review

Relax in style at the Radisson Blu Hotel Manchester Airport

May 28, 2014 by Zoe Dawes 13 Comments

I picked up the gin bottle and tipped it towards to my glass. A veritable waterfall of Bombay’s finest cascaded into my glass, splashing onto the bar. Ohhhh … At home our gin bottle has one of those plastic things that meters the amount that comes out (Spanish Duty Free...

Reading time: 2 min

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