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Bookworms Make Hay

Friendly booksellers

Philip Game meanders along the Welsh border in search of... books


By Morgan through the Cotswolds

Touring the Cotswolds in a Morgan

The most luxurious way to see England’s picturesque Cotswolds region is from behind the wheel of a Morgan sports car.


Cambridge: Punting on the Cam

Whilst the British may disparage ‘Oxbridge’ as the home of an ivory tower elite, England’s two venerable university cities are quite different places.

 

 


Docklands Devilry

Where better to start exploring London’s past than the banks of the Thames, for centuries the main artery of the greatest mercantile city the world had ever known?


Eastern and Oriental: Secrets of London's East End

Foodies and fashionistas delight at the Spitalfields market in London's East End


England Raises the Bar

Fresh local berries, picnic at Berkeley Castle, UK

Country England has never been so good.


Making The Cut

No customer is too picky for this boutique butcher in an unlikely corner of London's East End


Rocky Coast to the Edges of Land's End

We could be in Brittany, or Wales, or any other Celtic country. But here when someone or somewhere is prefixed Pen-, Tre-, Treg- or Trew-, you could be nowhere else but Cornwall.


Secret Welsh Rarebit

Caernarfon Castle / Mount Snowdon

The Welsh do share that English passion for privacy… finding a sea-front inn on the Llyn Peninsula becomes quite a challenge.


To The Manor Borne

Gravetye Manor (it isn't even pronounced as you would expect – it's Grave Tie) is deliciously off the map, a flowery hidden estate. But of course, when a place has been around for 500 years or so you do expect people to have learnt your location.


 

 
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