FARMYARD Hastings – Sustainable Restaurant with Natural Wines. We reviewed the Gladwin Brothers’ newest restaurant Sussex in Soho recently, a fine-dining take on their modern European approach, and now I’m in East Sussex at FARMYARD eating delicious platefuls of robustly flavoured food mostly using locally sourced ingredients and displaying European and Asian influences. FARMYARD calls […]
The Lugger Hotel Portloe – offering the best of Cornwall
The best in Cornish hospitality and an unbeatable seaside location So close to the seaside that if you miss the front door you’ll end up in the sea, The Lugger Hotel sits right on the water’s edge in the heart of picturesque Portloe. Quaint and quintessentially Cornish, the village hugs the hillside as the road […]
Intergenerational Break with Hoburne Holidays
Caravanning in Dorset at Hoburne Bashley I have many happy childhood memories of going on caravan holidays with my family. Squashed in the back of my parent’s car with my three siblings, squabbling all the way but with great excitement in the air as we were going on our summer holidays. So when I was […]
Mayflower Heritage in Dartmouth
The Mayflower and Speedwell in Dartmouth Although the annual Thanksgiving Dinner marks the survival of the early European settlers in New England, the less remarked upon, but nonetheless remarkable story, is of the initial obstacles they encountered even before setting sail across the perilous Atlantic Ocean. This is set to change with a series of […]
Discovering Dartmouth
Dartmouth – Heaven on Earth in Devon “Ruby’s going to Heaven for her holiday” announced my young daughter, not registering my look of shocked concern. Further probing clarified that rather than departing to a celestial paradise, Ruby (our trusty motor) was hitting the highway and heading to Devon, a destination which, as I recently discovered […]
A Cottage on the Coast
An idyllic weekend in Tenby, Pembrokeshire with Coastal Cottages, Pembrokeshire A visit to Pembrokeshire is worth the trip any season and in any year but 2018 is Wales’ Year of the Sea, when it is celebrating its outstanding coastal scenery and inviting visitors to special events and attractions, so now is a really good time […]
The Restaurant at Drakes Brighton – Review
Sophisticated seaside sustenance at Drakes Brighton: There’s something quite special about a boutique hotel with a good restaurant, especially when you love fine dining as much as me. Having a mid-winter Brighton short break staying at Drakes, a top UK boutique hotel, I learnt that The Restaurant at Drakes had yet again received the highest score for […]
Brighton Short Break at Drakes Boutique Hotel
Brighton’s Best – Short Break Brighton: On a stunningly bright and clear January day, we headed down the M23 to Brighton for a short break and a winter getaway. Brighton is the perfect destination for a quick trip with super fast road and rail connections to London. We were excited to be staying at Drakes […]
The Beach at Bude – A Luxurious Short Break in Cornwall
The Beach at Bude – A luxury boutique hotel in North Cornwall North Cornwall is part of England I know and love. I grew up there and then, thirteen years ago, having spent several holidays in Boscastle, we bought a holiday cottage there. We loved the area and wanted to have somewhere to stay as […]
The Grand Hotel, Eastbourne
English Seaside Deluxe in Eastbourne: For a quintessential English seaside luxury hotel experience, look no further than The Grand Hotel, Eastbourne, part of The Elite Hotels group.Built in 1875 and nestling between the sea and the chalk downs of Beachy Head, The Grand maintains a respect for its Victorian and Edwardian heritage but with a […]