Balmer Lawn Hotel – Uncovering history – travel review
Balmer Lawn is a large and rather imposing building set behind an open field, or lawn, where still can be seen cricket matches in good...
Gilbey’s for an Eton Stay
Dear tourist, please take a step away from London on your next vacation. Eton awaits and it’s a gem of a destination. Don’t worry about...
Lancrigg Hotel – dining
Lancrigg is perhaps one of the most charming hotels in the Lake District …and even beyond. It has the exterior of a rather good country...
The Brown Horse, Windermere – stay
The Brown Horse Inn, located in the heart of the Lake District, is an 1850s former coaching inn that offers its guests a comfy and...
The Plough Inn – dining
The Plough Inn is a little stunner. It offers beautiful rooms for the few who are lucky enough to stay, and a traditional bar and...
Holdsworth House Halifax – stay
This is a jewel of a hotel, and there can surely be no better time to visit Holdsworth House Hotel than during those weeks just...
Lancrigg Hotel – stay
Oh, deep joy! A hotel that thinks it’s a home. A house with guest rooms. A place to snuggle by the fire. A spot where...
Burlington’s Restaurant – The Beech Hill Hotel
The Beech Hill Hotel is located on the eastern bank of Windermere. Its stunning views over the lake change with the seasons. Autumn is a...
The Plough Inn – to stay
The Plough in the hamlet of Lupton was built around 1760 but the welcome to this historic pub is contemporary and artful. There is a...
The House Japanese Grill at Beaverbrook
The Beaverbrook Estate seems a quintessentially English retreat with a country house hotel, and that would obviously have a quintessentially English dining room and menu....
Garden House Hotel Cookery School – review
The Beaverbrook Estate is a one-stop resort for almost everything, and those everythings will be to a very high standard. The House, the more formal...
The Crown at Woodbridge – hotel review
This was my first visit to Woodbridge in Suffolk. It’s an English county on the right-hand edge of the map of England and comprises the...
The Swan at Lavenham – hotel review
Lavenham is the kind of village that even we who live in Britain don’t expect to find anymore. It’s a chocolate-box beautiful spot – it’s...
The White Lion, Aldeburgh – hotel review
I am well-travelled but I still believe that there are few places better than Britain on balmy summer days, and particularly when one is fanned...
The Gallery Restaurant, The Swan at Lavenham – restaurant review
The Swan is a striking hotel in an equally striking location. Lavenham is a town the likes of which is often thought extinct. It’s the...
Sea Spice in Aldeburgh – restaurant review
I have written a book about Indian restaurants but they were all in London. I review Indian restaurants almost every month but I have never...
The Brudenell Hotel, Aldeburgh, Suffolk – review
This is a classic English coastal town. It has a long and wide Blue Flag shingle beach which is dotted with fishing boats and fresh-fish...
The Crown Restaurant at Woodbridge – restaurant review
OK, I confess, I had never visited Suffolk. I discovered a strikingly beautiful county with coast, pasture, chocolate-box villages and historic towns. I discovered Woodbridge!...
Penrhiw Hotel St Davids, Pembrokeshire – hotel review
St Davids will tick so many boxes for those looking for a quiet retreat for a few days. A corner of the UK with natural...
Blas at Twr y Felin Hotel, Pembrokeshire – restaurant review
This striking and high-end hotel seems contemporary but it has a long history which is camouflaged by its light, modern and immaculate presentation. But part...