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Philip Game meanders along the Welsh border in search of... books |
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The most luxurious way to see England’s picturesque Cotswolds region is from behind the wheel of a Morgan sports car. |
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Whilst the British may disparage ‘Oxbridge’ as the home of an ivory tower elite, England’s two venerable university cities are quite different places.
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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? |
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Foodies and fashionistas delight at the Spitalfields market in London's East End |
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Country England has never been so good. |
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No customer is too picky for this boutique butcher in an unlikely corner of London's East End |
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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. |
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The Welsh do share that English passion for privacy… finding a sea-front inn on the Llyn Peninsula becomes quite a challenge. |
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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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