The Isle of Wight is steeped in history and featuring stunning coastline, beaches and historic sites. Queen Victoria spent her holidays here at Osbourne House. Use this guide to plan your visit to the Isle of Wight.
Use this detailed guide to plan your visit to the grey seal colony in Lincolnshire, England. From late October to December the seals come ashore to give birth to their adorable white fluffy pups, with large irresistibly cute black eyes.
Bristol is a trendy and vibrant city full of interesting shops, sights, and attractions. It is also where the famous artist Banksy originated from and you can see several of his artworks dotted around the city. Use this detailed guide to plan your weekend trip to Bristol, England.
Use my detailed guide to Liverpool’s major sites and attractions to help you plan your weekend trip to this interesting city.
Sandringham Estate is the Queen’s country home. Located on the beautiful Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, it sprawls over 240 hectares which includes farmland, woodland and heath. We visited on a sunny spring day to explore the gardens, museum, house and park lands.
Most people only visit York city and don’t realise that there is also a lot of fantastic sites and attractions in the nearby Howardian Hills which is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The Howardian Hills features beautiful rolling countryside, quaint English villages, manor houses and abbey ruins.
The entire city of Bath is a UNESCO World Heritage site and has lots of wonderful historic buildings and architecture to see including, the famous Roman Baths, the Circus and Crescent, the Assembly Rooms, and museums such as The Fashion Museum and Victoria Art Gallery.
A day wasn’t quite enough to enjoy them all, so we are keen to return and explore some more. I’ve also heard the Christmas markets are very good too, so I’m aiming to revisit for a weekend in December. Below I’ve listed the sights we visited to give you some inspiration on what to include in your visit.
Most of us have heard of Stonehenge, but few have heard of the nearby World Heritage Site of Avebury and its Neolithic henge monument that contains three stone circles. At the heart of the stone circles is the pretty historic village of Avebury with sites including Avebury manor house and garden, St James Church, and the nearby West Kennet Long Barrow and Silbury Hill.
Stonehenge is one of the most famous and popular tourist attractions in Britain. But despite its many admirers, it also has its critics, and this along with its rather expensive entry fee, leads many tourists to ask “is it worth visiting Stonehenge?”. To help answer this, I’m going to give you as much information as I can about my experience visiting Stonehenge and nearby Old Sarum,
There’s a reason people refer to Castle Combe as the prettiest village in England. It is utterly charming. Castle Combe is so picture perfect that you would swear you are on a movie set, and indeed the village has been used as a filming location for a number of TV shows and movies, including the wonderfully magical movie Stardust, the popular TV period drama Downton Abbey, and the moving story of War Horse.