Hello!

When I lived in Lincolnshire, Nottingham was somewhere I used to go fairly regularly for concerts, shows and shopping trips.

AccorHotels are running a competition called ‘24 Hours In…‘ where you make a blog post or vlog about what you would do with 24 hours in your favourite city with a chance to win a 9 night stay for two in Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin and a GoPro to vlog the whole trip! You can read more about the competition here but I thought I’d talk about what I’d do with 24 hours in Nottingham.

I’ve been to Nottingham on a variety of occasions – shopping trips and theatre visits with my mum, concert nights and Primark trips with my friends and even a dance competition at the same arena I’ve been to so many concerts earlier this year! I feel like I know the city fairly well (as someone who doesn’t live there, that is!) and I could easily spend 24 hours there.

Assuming my trip starts at about 12pm, the first stop would have to be lunch – there are so many good places to eat around Nottingham but I love Frankie and Bennies. It’s always been a family favourite of mine, especially when ‘Tell Laura I love Her’ comes on the soundtrack and my mum and I serenade my sister.

Her name’s Laura, there’s a reason for singing to her!

After that it would have to be a trip to Long Tall Sally – a shop full of gorgeous clothes that are all well fitting on me! Really reasonably sized (as in, I wear a small in most clothes!) and all of the clothes are long enough for my 5’10” frame! I could spend hours in there but with only 24 hours, time is of the essence! The rest of the afternoon would almost certainly be devoted to shopping, maybe not in shops quite as expensive as Long Tall Sally but a trip to Primark and New Look never comes amiss! A bit of retail therapy is the best part of a little getaway.

Once we’ve spent all the money in our purses, it would probably be time to check into the hotel and go for dinner before a trip to the theatre! I love going to see shows – musical theatre, classic plays and especially when bands are on tour. Whatever was on at the time, I’d definitely try to get some tickets and spent the night out that way, with a drink or two afterwards to discuss whatever it is I’d seen with whoever it was I went with.

From there I think it would be back to the hotel to get some sleep before hotel breakfast the following morning – making the most of croissants and buffet breakfast galore!

And what to do with the little time before my 24 hours is up?

Kitty Cafe.

I’ve never been to a cat cafe but it just sounds like a perfect morning to me – cake, a hot chocolate in a room surrounded by kitties? I think this would be the perfect way to spend the last of my time in Nottingham before my 24 hours is up and heading back to the train station.

Assuming I got the train there on my hypothetically trip to Nottingham.

Writing this post has just made me want to go back to Nottingham! I’ve been there to see Fidler on the Roof (one of my favourite stage viewings ever, the cast played the musical instruments it was so cool!), Cats, The Overtones and McBusted there, I think I saw Michael Buble there too but that might have been Sheffield. Nottingham is definitely one of my favourites, Mum we need another trip there soon!

Go check out the AccorHotels competition if you haven’t already and good luck to anyone else who enters!

Thank you for reading,

Sophie xx

 

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