Escape to the country

I met Charles Dickens today, except he’d been so busy working on The Mystery of Edwin Drood that he’d fallen asleep, so I didn’t get to speak to him!” I laughingly proclaimed to Ro when we met up for

In my 20s, I would think nothing of strapping a tent onto the back of my boyfriend’s motorbike and heading to the Lake District for the weekend, especially as I only lived about 90 minutes away from w

Walking Weekend

After a love-at-first-sight viewing, novelist Rudyard Kipling found peace and sanctuary within the walls of this Jacobean house, located in the wooded landscape of the Sussex Weald

A 16th-century dwelling has been sensitively refreshed, resulting in a home brimming with original character, while boasting an easy-to-live-with, modern sensibility

Just east of Cheltenham you’ll find Bourton-on-the-Water, a village that dates back as far as the Bronze Age and is often regarded as the most picturesque place to live in the UK. On the banks of the