Category: UK travel and tourism

New Food and Drink Map From The County of Good Taste

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Rutland produces some of the very best of British food and drink and in a county proud of its farming heritage and desire to share the feast of local produce available, Discover Rutland has created a new illustrative map with two cycle trails to explore. Not only bursting with amazing food producers, shops and eateries, a variety of beverages also comes pouring out of this small county that lives up to its motto ‘Multum in Parvo’ meaning ‘Much in Little’.

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Getting (back) into golf: Time to tee off – Notes from a (returning) novice golfer

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So I am starting to write this latest instalment not long after coming off the course whilst things are fresh in the memory, having played 9 holes on Stonebridge for the first time and played any holes for the first time in over 10 years. The body is feeling it a little with the legs being a little tired and the shoulders and top of my back know they have had a workout (particularly as it was ‘carry-on’ on course and no trollies, and I found I have no shoulder strap on my bag!), but it has been worth it.  

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Review: Luminate at Coombe 2023 lights up the build-up to Christmas

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If there is a sure-sign that Christmas is coming, it is not the Coca-Cola lorry coming to a supermarket car park near you but the sight of twinkling fairy lights from one of the many winter light trails that are now seemingly part and parcel of the build-up to the festive season.

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Discovering Durham – Day 3: Doing the Locomotion

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We have reached the final day – or in our case, half day – of discovering some of Durham’s quite excellent visitor attractions. After another very hearty breakfast of pastries, bacon rolls and coffee, we say our fond farewells to the Park Head Hotel and set off for nearby Shildon and our last engagement on what has been a fabulous itinerary; a visit to Locomotion.

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Coombe Abbey, the Princess and the Gunpowder Plot

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In the coming week up and down the country and locally, bonfires will be lit and firework displays will light up the night skies to celebrate Bonfire Night.

Whilst the fifth of November is a time of people coming together for food, drink, bonfires, sparklers and firework pyrotechnics, it is a reminder of one of England’s most notorious acts of treason way back in 1605. The Gunpowder Plot, the failed attempt to kill King James I and his courtiers by blowing up the Houses of Parliament.

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Discovering Durham – Day 2: Bishops, Faith and Beamish – Part 2

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Onto the second part of our second day in Durham and a look around a visitor attraction which secretly we had hoped would be included on our itinerary.

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Discovering Durham – Day 2: Bishops, Faith and Beamish – Part 1

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The first half of our itinerary for the second day was to head into Bishop Auckland and to explore some of the numerous attractions which make up the Auckland Project;  a regeneration charity that has used art to help transform the fortunes of this former mining town.

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Discovering Durham – Day 1: A new Rising

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Our first port of call was the magnificent Raby Castle. What a place to start our short tour of what Durham has to offer.

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Discovering Durham – an introduction

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We have all done it.  How many times have you been somewhere and said afterwards “I’d love to come back here again”, but then never actually got round to doing it. Or it has taken an absolute age for whatever reason to fulfil that promise.

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Luminate 2023 – 5 great reasons, 8 magical venues

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As Autumn is officially upon us, anticipation is building for the return of Luminate this winter.

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