Poland has many beautiful cities. I visited three of them on a short driving tour, starting with Warsaw, then travelling south to Kraków and finally north-east to Białystok. Warsaw the capital of Poland was an obvious choice to visit, and a good arrival point from the UK with inexpensive direct flights from Stansted and Edinburgh. […]
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We were fortunate to find the Canons Ashby site fully open when we visited on a weekday in early February. It had been closed during January for maintenance and apparently in previous years the house itself did not open until Easter. Many heritage properties are subject to winter closures – see below for details. The […]
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There are two small National Trust houses, Baddesley Clinton and Packwood House, in the middle of historical Warwickshire halfway between Warwick and Solihull. Both are Grade 1 listed buildings, but there any similarity ends. Each is an architectural gem in its own right. Baddesley Clinton, which dates back to the 13th Century, is maybe the more […]
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As you arrive at Croome, a National Trust property 10 miles south of Worcester, you are greeted with a sign stating: Expect the Unexpected. Intriguing, but indeed it proved to be quite true when my wife and I visited Croome Court and Park on a cold but sunny weekday in January. The first unexpected was maybe […]
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STE’s Holiday Editor, Tony Taylor, reports on his experiences on an extended version of the Heart of the Silk Route, a Saga Holidays tour of Uzbekistan. My wife has long been interested in the Silk Road and after watching Joanna Lumley’s fascinating television programme on the subject, we booked the Saga Holidays tour called Uzbekistan: Heart […]
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North Yorkshire is well endowed with magnificent remains of medieval monasteries. I’ve visited and written about many of them, including Fountains Abbey, Reivaulx Abbey and Whitby Abbey. However there are two abbeys that I had driven passed many times, but never stopped to explore: Jervaulx Abbey and Bolton Abbey. Maybe as a member of English […]
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North Yorkshire is well endowed with magnificent remains of medieval monasteries. I’ve visited and written about many of them, including Fountains Abbey, Reivaulx Abbey and Whitby Abbey. However there are two abbeys that I had driven passed many times, but never stopped to explore: Jervaulx Abbey and Bolton Abbey. Maybe as a member of English […]
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There are thirteen National Trust properties in Norfolk including five spectacular coastal sites. However my favourite properties are the estates at Blickling and Felbrigg, situated 14 and 21 miles respectively north of Norwich. Both Blickling Estate and Felbrigg Hall, Gardens and Estate – to give them their full National Trust titles – are well endowed […]
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STE’s Holiday Editor, Tony Taylor, reports on his experiences on a Saga Holidays tour of Central America. After travelling around Panama, and Costa Rica, the tour moved on to Colombia. The group taking the tour extension to Colombia left at 5 am to fly via Bogotá to Cartagena, the base for our three days in […]
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I’ve visited almost every country in Western and Central Europe over the last 40 years, but the three Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia had eluded me, until now! My initial idea was to fly to one of these capitals and hire a car. There are many budget airline flights to Vilnius (capital of […]
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