We rarely have a plan for our campervan adventures, preferring instead to point our noses in a general direction of travel and play it by ear. This summer in the UK was no exception as we left our hom

ONE day, tailor Robert Spittal arrived at Doune and sought to cross the River Teith by the ferry boat. He must have been quite embarrassed to discover he hadn’t enough money with him to pay the toll.

Repton Priory, Derbyshire Within the curtilage of Repton School

The Scottish Highlands have captured travellers’ imaginations since Sir Walter Scott began setting his wildly evocative historical novels here. What those first Victorian tourists discovered was a vas

Ampthill Park House, Bedfordshire, part I The home of Sir Timothy and Lady Clifford

Will and Sarah Leslie inherited a baronial-style castle in poor repair, and are slowly turning it into a fantasy family home