Roman Camp Hotel
…for www.thetravelpages.net This romantic country house hotel, perfectly located for visitors to the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park in Scotland, has a long and fascinating history. It doesn’t…
…for www.thetravelpages.net This romantic country house hotel, perfectly located for visitors to the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park in Scotland, has a long and fascinating history. It doesn’t…
…started seeking out more stories, then did a daily radio broadcast about the secrets of Provence, before collecting many of them together in this book and on his website: http://www.provence-insolite.org/….
…dressing room at the Edinburgh ABC on Lothian Road, in the company of some lucky winners of a competition to meet the Beatles. He shows me the page of autographs…
…her own Cumberland rum butter. And if the butter business ever fails, she could make a good living as a stand-up comedian. Sue regales us with limericks and jokes as…
…Britain’s greatest monument from a distance across a rope barrier, English Heritage this year has lifted the rope just a little. Anyone can apply for a Special Access permit, giving…
…our guide, Carl Ooghe, performs the amazing feat of explaining the complexities of the start of the war, with about 15 minutes of passion and drama – and maps drawn…
…fastest growing brewery in Belgium, producing 30 different beers annually. What’s even more impressive is the small urban brewery in which they do it. Brussels Beer Project is situated near…
…the I W Amsterdam, which combines Bols genever, lemon juice, honey syrup, some raspberries and an egg white, frothing it up into a concoction that has sweet, sour, creamy, fruity,…
…Scotland exhibit displaying the oldest crown jewels in Britain. Alongside is the Stone of Destiny, upon which the monarchs of Scotland have been crowned ever since the 9th century. https://www.edinburghcastle.scot…
…was here, and the city’s swans were kept nearby and fattened up for banquets.’ George’s commentary was a pleasant mix of the factual and the fun, with a few corny…
…Toulousain is at 1 allée Gabriel Biénés, 31400 Toulouse (tel: +33 8 92 69 31 15; https://www.stadetoulousain.fr/). It is about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) south of the Pont Neuf, on…
…the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea. Pilgrims have passed this way for centuries, from Cairo, from the Middle East, from the Far East, all travelling to visit this…
…arrive while we’re reading the menu. One is a black pudding bon-bon, so combines two of my favorite things, and the other was basically brie on a biscuit though they…
…free-range hens, till an unfortunate incident with a fox. The Hotel’s Highland Cattle In our very spacious room, as well as the usual tea and coffee maker there was a…
…looks after the Kitchen Garden in Harrogate’s magnificent Harlow Carr Gardens, and I’m picking up some free advice on how to run your own kitchen garden, allotment, or indeed just…
…as rooms range from about $250-400 a night. Our Room Washington Square Hotel Amenities Those room rates do include a breakfast at the classy North Square restaurant, free wireless internet,…
…free fistful of fruit. If Armenia is a poor country – and it is, very poor – you wouldn’t know it from the cavernous covered market in its capital, Yerevan….
…from the north of North America had come south for the winter. And not to Florida, but to Alabama. Alabama’s Gulf Shores has 32 miles (51 kms) of sugar-white and…
Every city has its emblem, which says something about the city itself. New York has the Statue of Liberty (the land of the free), and for London it’s Big Ben…
…known in Britain for directing the greatest reggae film ever made, The Harder They Come. I’m revelling in another writer, Guy Kennaway, whose novel One People is set in a…