The Beckford Bottle Shop. It’s a wine shop and bistro in the middle of the beautiful city of Bath. It’s got a Bib Gourmand from Michelin. We stopped by for a light lunch on a blustery day in February. They’ve got the bistro decor spot on, service was friendly, and there’s a good selection of …
I really loved The Bell at Ramsbury. For starters, Ramsbury itself is a beautiful village nestled beneath the hills of the Wessex Downs, clearly one that was more like a small town back in the mid-20th century but has been forgotten by time (and by everyone dashing past to more well-known points west). The Bell …
Thanet is a lovely corner of Kent. Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate are all coastal towns with bags of character and varying degrees of nouveau-hip shops and eateries bubbling up. Stretch the boundary a little and the lovely medieval town of Sandwich makes a great quartet, all within about 20 minutes. 27 Harbour Street lies just …
Visit Windsor on almost any day of the year and you’ll find a town awash with tourists from across the globe, visitor numbers out of all proportion with the modest-sized town centre. So you’d expect most of the restaurants to be horrid affairs with glitzy frontages and gimmicks, serving up over-priced rubbish to people who …
It’s very nice to get out of London for a little indulgent break in the bleak midwinter, especially in a lovely old country house perched on a wooded hillside and converted into a luxurious and cosy hotel. You might remember we did the same a couple of years ago at Hampton Manor. This time we …