A Guide to Cornwall
Just turned off onto a one lane country track with hedgerows on both sides. The road is so narrow…
Windsor Great Park explained
Windsor Great park might be confusing at first glance and given what all is available in this magnificent park,…
Windsor Castle was one of nine castles
Windsor Castle is the world's largest and oldest inhabited castle and is still one of the most important country…
Highclere Castle aka How I became a Downton fan
I must admit, I didn’t watch Downton Abbey when it was first on television. It has a very profound reason: it was…
Stowe – The perfect landscape garden
I think, probably most of us has a picture in mind about a romantic, sometimes mysterious English landscape garden, with…
Where can you find a Wyvern, a Patagonian foot and a Plunge pool?
I don’t know about you, but as far as I am concerned, I prefer châteaus and stately homes to fortresses…
Nuffield Place – A humble millionare’s home
I love visiting different places, manor houses, castles, stately homes, grand houses and I am always fascinated by the architecture,…
Three beautiful (haunted) Scottish castles
The first things come to people’s minds about Scotland are probably “Nessie”, whisky, kilts and castles, which of course have…
A day in the Cotswolds – Sudeley Castle
I realised the other day that we have been to many places during the 2.5 years since we have been…
Norfolk! A country gentleman
Who is Desmond? You do not know him? It does not matter, I will explain who he is. Desmond is…