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All Wrapped Up

20/01/2020 Written by Helen

When we travel back to England for Christmas, we don’t fly. Flying is a real hassle, even when it’s the short two & a half hour flight we do from Pula to Manchester. Plus we’re becoming more & more aware of the impact of flying – but, we have to get back some way, and […]

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Bedroom Renovation Update

06/03/2019 Written by Helen
The main bedroom, just after we moved in and our belongings arrived, in its undecorated state...

Like every room in the house, the main bedroom had a mix of natural, untreated stone walls, bare plaster in places and some parts of the walls, already painted white. Pine floorboards were untreated, and ceiling beams were in the same state. They were actually quite lovely in their naked condition, but just felt a […]

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Renovation Update

01/03/2019 Written by Helen
The day we moved in...

1st March marks exactly two years since we moved into the house – the renovation project in Istria which has been the most amazing journey! Two years ago today, the day before all of our belongings arrived from England – we sat in an icy cold kitchen, watching our breath as we talked, taking in […]

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Spring Is In The Air…

28/01/2018 Written by Helen
Spring Is In The Air…

One of my favourite weekends, back in West Didsbury, was the one when we ventured out into the garden, for the first time in the year, to start that post-winter/pre-spring clean up. When the weather felt deceptively spring-like and the air felt a little bit different. And that weekend was usually in March or April, […]

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Green Fingers…

27/01/2018 Written by Helen
Green Fingers…

I’ve never really been green-fingered. I’m very impatient when growing anything from seed, as I want results right NOW. When I want a riot of colour in my garden, I want it immediately, but I know it takes longer for seeds to germinate and bulbs to push themselves up through the spring soil. Although I […]

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11 Didsbury Park

10/12/2017 Written by Helen
11 Didsbury Park

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 […]

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A Food Odyssey

14/11/2017 Written by Helen
A Food Odyssey

West Didsbury has become a real Manchester hot-spot, and if you’re visiting the region, you’d do well to get to know some of the mainly independent eateries along Burton Road, Lapwing Lane and not forgetting Nell Lane. Before a recent relocation to slightly sunnier climes, we lived in West Didsbury for nearly twenty years and […]

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Our Didsbury Holiday

18/08/2017 Written by Helen
Our Didsbury Holiday

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 […]

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Discovering Istria

15/05/2017 Written by Helen
Discovering Istria

We’ve got our first guests staying with us at the moment, friends from West Didsbury. It’s been brilliant to have people we know here and to be able to communicate, once again, without having to speak in Esperanto. In fact, being able to speak without thinking. Without having to compute in your head what might […]

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Home, Manchester

15/05/2016 Written by Helen
Home, Manchester

  We like to travel a lot and make the most of getting to know places we travel to. We used to know Manchester – our home city – a lot better than we do now. A combination of running our own business (and therefore not being very good at switching off), often being away, […]

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