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. [...]
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St Albans – Day Two
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
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St Albans – Day One
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
And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Luke 11:9
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 10th 2025
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Pericles
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 2nd 2025
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
4 Comments CherryPie on Jan 26th 2025
