Battleaxe recommends a great place to stay in Chichester.

Just remembered I hadn’t covered the last bit of our trip to the Isle of Wight – our night in Chichester. To add to the hypothetical guide I might one day write – Battleaxe Recommends…

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Hastings Battleaxe has a lovely break in Maldon, Essex

Yes, Hastings Battleaxe has been to Maldon before – in October 2020. Had a good time back then, but things were still very Covidy.  Here is the post about it. We had vowed to go…

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Grand Hotel Eastbourne – old-style luxury

Just back from a micro-mini-break to Eastbourne, featuring a night in the Grand Hotel, which was a calming and soothing reintroduction to the outside world.  However, we started off with a visit to the Towner…

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Hastings Battleaxe journeys to Derbyshire and Yorkshire

Last week was action-packed.  We stayed our first night in Matlock, visiting Matlock Bath and the Heights of Abraham, Chatsworth next day followed by scenic Peak District drive, then Wakefield for the Hepworth Gallery and…

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Goodbye to Cornwall, and the cooler side of Bournemouth

In my last post I wrote about the first part of our holiday, now for the last bit.  We are now back in Hastings, having returned a bit early – the weather was dodgy. We broke…

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