The Weekend Tourist is a blog written by Jess Friend Bartlett. Sometimes we only do touristy things on holiday - 25 days annual leave a year. That’s a shame, as we’ve 104 weekend days for exploring. This blog is all about discovering your local neighbourhood, attractions, historic places, local eateries and independents, which for me is in Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and the wider Cotswolds, UK. And when annual leave adds up, you'll find the occasional far flung adventure.
Before we set off for Memphis, we fortified ourselves with a ‘f*#ked up’ stack of French toast from the Lipstick Lounge in Five Points, E. Nashville. Wearing Easter bunny ears, our filled plates were laid…
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For Dolly in her teen years getting to Nashville was her primary concern, in fact she up sticks from Pigeon Forge the day she graduated by from college. When early Scottish, Irish and English immigrants…
View PostFor Dolly in her teen years getting to Nashville was her primary concern, in fact she up sticks from Pigeon Forge the day she graduated by from college. When early Scottish, Irish and English immigrants…
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Now our plan for our few days in Gatlinburg had been to visit the theme park dedicated and built by the patron saint of Tennessee, Dolly Parton, on Tuesday. However as we drove down Dollywood…
View PostNow our plan for our few days in Gatlinburg had been to visit the theme park dedicated and built by the patron saint of Tennessee, Dolly Parton, on Tuesday. However as we drove down Dollywood…
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In 1916, the US-based Society of Automobile Engineers defined a touring car as: “an open car seating four or more with direct entrance to tonneau”. Now I won’t pretend to know what a tonneau is…
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To say that the beginning of our holiday didn’t go quite according to plan, would be a minor understatement. First of all, at the luggage carousel it soon became clear, as Tom and I were…
View PostTo say that the beginning of our holiday didn’t go quite according to plan, would be a minor understatement. First of all, at the luggage carousel it soon became clear, as Tom and I were…
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Are you dreaming of sunnier, Mediterranean climes with this slightly, milder weather? I certainly am, but there is a far more local way of getting your fill of Med flavours at the Stag’s Head in…
View PostAre you dreaming of sunnier, Mediterranean climes with this slightly, milder weather? I certainly am, but there is a far more local way of getting your fill of Med flavours at the Stag’s Head in…
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