With Christmas approaching it’s nice to bake something really Christmas-y. This year I chose to bake something I’ve never baked before: a bundt cake. A Christmas cranberry bundt cake. For this I used a classic baking tin by Nordic Ware,…
The rugged mountains and coastline of North Wales attract many tourists and hikers, but this region has so much more to offer. I was positively surprised by North Wales where we spent four days earlier this year. We visited below…
Bodnant Garden is an amazing garden and arboretum in North Wales that spans 80 acres of hillside and has many different parts to explore. I knew of this garden, the iconic white pavilion in particular, but I wasn’t aware how…
Portmeirion is a small village in North Wales on the edge of Snowdonia National Park. The village is one of the most popular and most visited sights in Wales, which became widely known by the 1960s series The Prisoner. …
Twur Mawr lighthouse (meaning Great Tower in Welsh) is an iconic landmark on the West coast of Anglesey in Wales. This rather small lighthouse on Llanddwynn Isalnd was built in 1845 in the distinctive style of Anglesey windmills. According to…
Most museums, heritage centres and exhibitions in England are brilliantly done and are interactive. I’ve been to many of them and loved them all. However, on my recent visit to William Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage in the Lake District, I was…
Summer spoils us with great choices of fresh flowers - whether in wildflower meadows, in our gardens or in our vases as cut flowers. For years dried flowers always reminded me of autumn. But not anymore. When selected carefully, dried…
The blog is 6 years old this July so I though to bake a cake to celebrate this milestone and say thank you for following and reading England’s Puzzle. I wasn’t sure if I would have time to make it…
I've been wanting to visit the Lake District for years, but it just never happened. So finally, I just decided to go and organised a long weekend in the Lake District. Like with any other places in the UK, you…
Although for me nothing beats visiting country houses, gardens and heritage museums, I do enjoy going on country walks. The reason is that you can almost always find a hidden gem during a walk, which you probably wouldn’t find if…