Planning a mini-break
Mar. 9th, 2026 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heleninwalesLast year I didn't go away anywhere until the trip in mid-November to stay with our daughter. I used to rely on G organising our trips away and it took me rather a long time to realise that he just doesn't want to travel any more. He used to travel because he wanted to give a paper at a conference, but he doesn't want to do that any more. Now he has everything he needs and wants here. He's busy with his projects and has some of the most beautiful countryside in the UK to go for walks in. However, I felt I'd got into a rut and so we had a conversation about going away for short breaks and G said he was perfectly happy for me to go on my own.
The weather has been so bad up until now, that I didn't want to go anywhere. However, there was a post on Facebook from a friend saying that she was planning to visit Birmingham art gallery to see their pre-Raphaelite paintings on Good Friday of the Easter weekend and did anyone want to join her? That prompted me to actually arrange the trip I'd been vaguely thinking of since I saw online that the gallery had reopened.
I've just booked a hotel for one night. You can do Birmingham as a day trip, but not if I want to get there for 10 a.m. So I'll have half a day on my own on the Thursday and then get an early afternoon train back after meeting with friends on the Friday morning. It should be enjoyable. As a precaution, I've paid the extra so I can cancel up to the morning of the day I intend to stay. I won't buy the train tickets too early either. Early April can be lovely, or it can be awful with rain and floods or even snow. The railway companies also have a habit of arranging engineering work at Bank Holidays. But hopefully all will be well and I'll get a nice mini-break.
The weather has been so bad up until now, that I didn't want to go anywhere. However, there was a post on Facebook from a friend saying that she was planning to visit Birmingham art gallery to see their pre-Raphaelite paintings on Good Friday of the Easter weekend and did anyone want to join her? That prompted me to actually arrange the trip I'd been vaguely thinking of since I saw online that the gallery had reopened.
I've just booked a hotel for one night. You can do Birmingham as a day trip, but not if I want to get there for 10 a.m. So I'll have half a day on my own on the Thursday and then get an early afternoon train back after meeting with friends on the Friday morning. It should be enjoyable. As a precaution, I've paid the extra so I can cancel up to the morning of the day I intend to stay. I won't buy the train tickets too early either. Early April can be lovely, or it can be awful with rain and floods or even snow. The railway companies also have a habit of arranging engineering work at Bank Holidays. But hopefully all will be well and I'll get a nice mini-break.
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