Boringdon Hall Hotel Review It must have been Karma. Just as I was putting the final details to my recent trip to Plymouth exploring the Mayflower heritage, an email hit my desk about Boringdon Hall Hotel. What could be better than balancing a trip to the centre of historic Plymouth with one to a historic […]
Tewkesbury Park Hotel – the perfect place to stay, play or be pampered
Gloucestershire luxury resort hotel with something for everyone Tewkesbury Park Hotel sits on a low hill above the River Severn, a white outcrop of buildings, set in a sea of 163 green acres. First impressions are excellent. The heart of the hotel is an 18th-century manor which a recently concluded four-year, £10 million pound renovation has […]
Queensberry Boutique Hotel & Olive Tree Restaurant, Bath – Review
Boutique Hotel in Bath – Bliss at The Queensberry Hotel: Bath is such an elegant city blending its Roman heritage and elegant Georgian sense of style with a progressive and contemporary worldview. Just two hours drive from London it’s the perfect spot for a weekend away or a midweek staycation. In this most perfectly put […]
An English Country Destination – Thyme
Visiting the Thyme Estate in Southrop: Guest post by Susan Grossman The little Bichon puppy, the newest addition to the Hibbert family, tore across the water meadow, scattering Welsh Black Mountain sheep and French ducks in its path. The 150-acre Thyme estate in Southrop, on the border of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, described by the owner […]
Cheddar Cheese and the Cheddar Gorge Cheese Company:
Traditional West Country Cheesemaking in Cheddar Gorge: My mother’s side of the family is from Somerset farming stock. The youngest of thirteen children and the only boy, my Grandfather’s destiny should have been as a Quantocks hill farmer. He, however, had a fascination with electricity and left school to become an apprentice electrical engineer. Mum […]
Chapel House – Boutique Hotel Penzance West Cornwall
Review of Chapel House, Penzance, West Cornwall I grew up in Cornwall and fondly remember visiting Penzance as a child, as well as taking my girls there for day trips when they were younger. But I hadn’t ventured to West Cornwall for a few years so welcomed an invitation to check out the charming Chapel […]
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 […]
Day Trip from London to Bath – Roman Baths at Bath Spa
New Discoveries in Bath Spa – London to Bath in a Day Strange though it may see to those visiting England from abroad, I’ve been to Bath Spa on several occasions and never actually been into the Roman Baths. I actually used to go shopping in Bath when I lived in Wiltshire – it’s one […]
Northcote Manor Devon
In Tarka Land with not an Otter in Sight: Do you remember the film ‘A Ring of Bright Water’? I do – and as a child, watching otters in the wild in Somerset when I was walking with my Grandfather. These days I suspect otter spotting is a rarer occurrence, but the Tarka Line still […]