Travel Guides
Castles, trains, hidden gems and the hotels and tables that make each journey, newest first.
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The Norfolk Broads: A Luxury Slow-Travel Guide
Plan a slow, luxurious escape to the Norfolk Broads: private boats, Horsey seals, Ranworth’s tower view, Norwich and Cromer crab, plus the best hotels.
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Castle Stays in Scotland: Living Like Royalty
Turrets, tapestries, roaring fires and the easy grace of Scottish hospitality, woven into every stay.
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Isle of Skye Beyond the Crowds: the Fairy Glen and Quieter Corners
Skye rewards the traveller who arrives early, lingers late and turns down the road everyone else drives past, from the green hummocks of the Fairy…
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Best Hidden Winter Villages in Britain
When the crowds have gone home and the frost settles on thatch and slate, Britain’s smaller villages come into their own, with lantern-lit harbours, crackling…
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Places Less Visited: Tintern and Fountains, Britain’s Great Abbey Ruins
Places Less Visited: two great Cistercian ruins, one in a misty Welsh valley and one in a Yorkshire water garden, and why they are worth…
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5 Haunted Castles You Can Sleep In
Five castle hotels across England, Scotland and Wales where a four-poster, a fine dinner and a centuries-old ghost story all come with the room key.…
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Harry Potter Filming Locations Beyond the Studio Tour
Long before the Studio Tour opened its doors, Hogwarts was being pieced together from real British places: a Northumberland castle, cathedral cloisters in Gloucester and…
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Places Less Visited: The Cotswold Canals
Places Less Visited: the quiet waterways behind the honey-stone villages, and a slower way to see the Cotswolds. Table of Contents The Cotswolds You Don’t…
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Afternoon Tea in London: The Grand Hotels Compared
Few rituals feel as quintessentially London as afternoon tea in a grand hotel, and choosing the right room, from gilded Palm Courts to art-filled galleries,…
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Outlander Locations in Scotland
From the castle walls of Leoch to the haunted moor at Culloden, Scotland lets you step straight into the world of Outlander, and most of…
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Bath in Style: A Luxury Spa City Weekend
Bath sits on Britain’s only naturally hot, mineral-rich springs, and a long weekend here, spent between thermal pools, Georgian crescents and very good dinners, is…
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Places Less Visited: The Line, London’s Hidden Art Walk
Places Less Visited: London’s first public art walk, following the Greenwich Meridian along East London’s waterways, and free to explore. Table of Contents Discovering The…