If you take nothing else from this very unofficial UK seasons travel guide, take this: our weather is not a backdrop, it’s the main act. You don’t “get lucky” with…
Bank holidays creep up on you. One minute you’re idly promising yourself you’ll “do something” this time; the next, it’s Friday lunchtime, you’re still at your desk, and every cottage…
I first typed “Kate Bush UK travel” into a search bar in about 2016, sitting in a Premier Inn somewhere off the A1, trying to work out why Wuthering Heights…
Medieval village life in England is usually described as if it were a diagram from a GCSE textbook: a neat row of peasant strips fanning out from a compact village,…
If you’re thinking about visiting the UK in winter, you’ll probably be told to pack a waterproof, brace yourself for limited daylight and maybe lower your expectations. Fair enough. The…
If you’re anything like me, “budget travel Britain” used to sound like an oxymoron. Train fares that make you wince, £7 pints, “boutique” B&Bs that apparently charge extra for sockets.…
Seven days, one tank. That was the rule I gave myself: one full tank of diesel in my slightly battered estate car, and see how much of Britain I could…
I’ve done the Radiohead England road trip without meaning to. Not a checklist with a car and a podcast, but over years of buses, trains and lifts with dodgy clutch…
If you spend enough time on British roads, you realise the best bits of a trip rarely happen at the destination. They happen when you pull off “just for fuel…
