A couple of months ago I organised a very last minute overnight stay at a Coaching Inn called The Hare and Hounds. Now, when I say it was last minute I literally booked it the evening before my actual stay and it was a simple choice down to the fact that it was close…

Waking up on the first full day in Chicago, I was a little tired. Not overwhelmingly so, but enough to just want a relaxed start to the morning and not a rush to hit the City. Thankfully Boo had to work that day and so we got up for breakfast, hoping there would  be…

So as many of you know, I was heading off to Chicago for a ten-day wedding fest for a very good friend of mine and his intended. The flight was at 1000 on Thursday morning and given that I would have to be there three hours in advance AND get to Heathrow, I opted…

Regular readers will know of a recent post I wrote about flying across the pond to a wonderful wedding in Chicago. If you missed it, you can read it all here. Well, the flight was uneventful, the arrival hot and humid and the ten days spent in Chi-Town were positively sublime. I will write…

For around a dozen years or so, I have had a very dapper, vintage loving ex-pat living in the afore titled City, friend. A kindred spirit of sorts who has spent many an hour chatting amiably online with me. He is not only a wonderful correspondent, he is erudite, intelligent, witty and when you…