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

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

Preferring to shop second-hand, Imogen bought the rich red rug at Richmond Furniture Scheme, a furniture reuse charity in Twickenham, Middlesex, and the coffee table from Facebook Marketplace. She fou

Crenelated, moated and haunted – Hever Castle is the classic embodiment of a romantic medieval castle. With more than 600 years of history, this double-moated 14th-century fortress was once the childh

We arrive in the New Forest under a curtain of torrential rain; windscreen wipers on full throttle, headlights catching glimpses of muntjac deer as gusts batter the car. Crawling up a winding dirt tra

I’m awake. Very awake. It’s early on a wind-whipped Sunday morning and I’m neck-deep in the sea off the Isle of Man’s north-east coast. The rain is steady, the swell is heavy and the water is gaspindu