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For our final morning in St Albans, sampled the hotel breakfast. I was tempted by the idea of a continental breakfast. Apart from meat and cheese, everything was there but the bread, pastries and fruits were more English in style. Turning back to the main menu I chose a pancake stack which was beautifully presented. [...]

4 Comments CherryPie on Apr 30th 2025

We attended the 9.30 Easter service in St Albans Cathedral which, as we had been advised the previous day, was spiritual and communal. There were processions and presenting of ‘The Book’ and speaking the word, which is moving to experience.
Between the two-morning services, bubbles, juice and tea were served in the Cathedral’s Welcome Centre to [...]

7 Comments CherryPie on Apr 28th 2025

We had a lazy start to the morning and walked to the other side of town to have breakfast in The Street Café.
I was hoping to have the ‘tomatoes on bruschetta with herbs and balsamic vinegar’ that I had in November last year when we had breakfast there. It wasn’t on the menu this time [...]

4 Comments CherryPie on Apr 27th 2025

When Mr C got out of bed, he noticed a missed phone call (on our land line) from mum’s mobile timed at 5am. I decided not to worry about it, if there was a problem the care home would have called us.
Although the traffic was running smoothly, the motorway journey was tedious. We stopped for [...]

No Comments CherryPie on Apr 25th 2025

… has been on an Easter Adventure

10 Comments CherryPie on Apr 22nd 2025