When we bought the house in Istria, one of the things which sold it to us, was the size of the main bedroom. Compared to other bedrooms we’ve had, this was massive and with a lot of potential. Over the months, we’ve done bits and pieces to try and make it comfortable, as we work […]
Quick backstory if you don’t know our story. June 2016 – visited Croatia on holiday (Zadar). Loved it. July 2016 – saw a house online for sale in Istria, northern Croatia. Flew out on impulse, loved it. August 2016 – put our West Didsbury house 0n the market and made an offer on the Istria […]
Having lived in Didsbury for a very long time, we know a lot about Eleven Didsbury Park and its sister hotel, Didsbury House. We’ve stayed at Didsbury House previously and have attended weddings there, and it really, really does have the wow factor. On this trip, we were also attending a wedding in Didsbury and […]
Snow makes me very excited. You would have thought I might be used to it, as we did get some very heavy downfalls in the North East when I was a child. But, there is still something very magical about the first few flakes of the year – and in Didsbury, in my adulthood, you […]
Previous years have seen us getting away from West Didsbury and largely exploring Italy, Spain and Greece, with some nice city breaks in between. This year – summer 2017 – has seen us doing a very different kind of a holiday. Firstly, it was a very strange feeling booking outward flights TO Manchester from Pula […]
Many of you will be aware that we are no longer in Manchester, having relocated recently to Istria. It’s been a bit of a blast to to be honest – new house, new environment, hot weather (although only recently!) and generally a bit of a surreal feel of being on an extended holiday. But in […]
We’ve never had huge outdoor spaces anywhere that we’ve lived previously. In our last house in West Didsbury, we managed to create quite a funky little haven, out of scaffold planks. But it was still a bit of a tight squeeze and although we loved it, we never had a feeling of space. Well, we’re […]
If you follow this blog or our Twitter account, you’ll maybe have guessed that at some point, a move to warmer climes might be on the cards. We’ve been looking, on our travels, for the perfect property, for quite a long time, but nothing ever seemed *quite* right. Location, price, style, accessibility – nothing ever […]
January in Manchester is usually a pretty dull affair, weather-wise – which is one of the reasons we escaped to Morocco on 1st Jan. We tend to have grey, overcast skies, rain, more rain and more rain. So, when we get the merest hint of a bit of snow, Instagram goes crazy 😉 Those of […]