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30th September – 3rd October 2025 Looks a bit grim, doesn’t it? Well, nothing could be further from the truth…

I am just back from a few days in the Ribble valley. To many people this is an unknown land…

Have you ever been deafened by silence? The silence at Kyre is total, no motor-way noise, no 21st century, just…

Here is a view from the garden terrace at Raby Castle as it was last week when a party organised…

As a freelance lecturer on the Decorative and Fine Arts, I get to go on some fascinating trips. This one…

Like the melting ice on the River Neva in Russia, the travel log-jamb caused by the multitudinous and confusing Covid…

There has just been an advertising campaign encouraging visitors to Northamptonshire citing amongst other things the plethora of country houses,…

This tour included a visit to the church of North Marston which at one time was the third most-visited shrine…

It seems hard to believe that a spectacular house like Apethorpe could be forgotten, neglected, and brought to the verge…

Two of Central Europe’s most fascinating cities, and a cruise between the two to view sights which are not on the usual tourist trail.

Firstly the journey is not as easy as it sounds as the cities are not directly …