sheffield – unicornpostbox

For this Valentine’s Day me and my wonderful boyfriend Aaron travelled to Sheffield for a romantic weekend away. This blog post is a description of our travels, with accompanying photography, hope you enjoy! ❤️❤️

We travelled by train and arrived at our hotel, Wilson Carlile Centre on Cavendish Street, in central Sheffield, check in 2pm. At first I thought we’d gone to the wrong place, as did not appear much like a hotel, and the accommodation was around the corner in a separate building to the reception. It was a small room, with only a continental basic breakfast in the morning. It didn’t matter so much as we’re both vegetarians anyway. Good location. Cheap and relatively cheerful I’d say…

We exchanged Valentine’s Day gifts at the hotel 🥰

We arrived at 5pm at the El Paso restaurant for a romantic Valentine’s Day meal. It is both an Italian and a Tex Mex. We shared a cheesy garlic bread, Aaron had a veggie Chimichanga and I had veggie enchiladas 😋 The DJ played love songs, and Unchained Melody came on, one of my mum’s favourite songs 😢 (She has passed away). The meal was beautiful 🥰

After El Paso, we went to an adult themed crazy golf ⛳️ called Golf Fang, it was mint 🥰 An 18 hole course, with bespoke art adorning every wall. A massive amount of geeky stuff from films and popular culture etc, amazingly and uniquely designed, each hole; glow in the dark, exotic themes, etc, really cool and immersive. We also drank a lot of the Valentine’s Day special cocktails 🍸😉

Afterwards, we went drinking on West Street, I got very drunk 🤪 We ventured to West Street Live, but mainly we danced like loons in the Irish Bar 😜 The music was fantastic! Grabbed a margarita pizza 🍕 on the way back…

I felt so rough Saturday morning, we’d hardly had any sleep and had to check out at 10am 😭

We had a stroll around the city centre, the Peace Gardens, Millennium gallery, and did a little bit of shopping 🛍

My feet were killing me, my platform doc martens from the night before completely gave me blisters, I kept having to put new plasters on, even got blood on the bed sheets!

😲 So apart from that, it was nice having a little mooch. Aaron bought me a orange/black checked cardigan from Blue Banana 🥰 He bought a pink tie too for our friends upcoming wedding, we wandered around the indoor market, and we also had a McDonald’s and then a MASSIVE pancake each, with creamy lattes… then it was time to pick up our stored luggage, and grab an uber back to Sheffield train station… homeward bound! 🥰🥰

Overall, it was a brilliant little getaway, had so much fun 😍😍

My next blog posts will probably be diamond arts 💎🎨 or amateur portraits (fundraising for Alzheimer’s Research) or an Easter bunny 🐰 pub painting

Thank you so much as ever for reading/viewing.. Lots of love, Lauren xx

https://www.elpasorestaurant.co.uk/ [Accessed 16th February 2025]

https://golffang.co.uk/sheffield/ [Accessed 16th February 2025]

Here is a small collection of a few of the photographs I took in 2016… I thought I’d just upload a few, as an example of some of my work pre-2017, before I upload any future photography… Hope you enjoy…

1. These photos were taken at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, towards the end of last year. I was actually on a date (the guy with the bug), he turned out to be an absolute tool so is no longer in my life (lol), but I couldn’t resist sharing the photo, the creepy-crawly looks super cool… all the animals there are awesome to be honest, definitely worth a visit if you’ve never been 😀 …

2. These next photographs were taken in and around Sheffield city centre, sometime in September if I remember correctly… I had an appointment in Sheffield, so took the opportunity to take my camera along and make a proper day of it mooching about here and there; the Winter and Peace Gardens, Millennium Gallery and so on 😀 …

3. These last photographs were taken earlier on in the year, in Hull city centre, on a first date with the aforementioned tool (haha)… as you can see I visited The Deep, as well as having a lazy stroll around the city itself, admiring some of the gorgeous scenery and architecture Hull has to offer…