As we race to do all those last minute Christmas things before the big day, I am looking forward to my ‘big boys’ arriving from Australia on M...

Christmas time in Europe is pretty special. It’s not just the crisp air and (often) the snow. It’s the fact that by 3:30-4 pm it’s d...

As we close out the year, we’ll be doing a few different things in each week’s Issue. This week we take a look at some of the different p...

You may not have ever heard of a small village in Hampshire called Chawton but you most definitely have heard of its most famous resident, nov...

Welcome Continuing our visits to out of the way villages, today we go to Great Missenden. A village in Buckinghamshire that had a very famous resident...

Welcome We travel to Shropshire this week to the village of Ironbridge, said to be the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. Its story and that of ...

Welcome Our tour of Yorkshire concludes this week, when we travel to Whitby and its stunning hilltop Abbey.As you drive up the coast from Scarborough, ...

Welcome This week we travel to Wales to see another impressive Cistercian monastery - Tintern Abbey. I visited Tintern with my fellow history students ...

Welcome This week we continue our tour of Yorkshire and visit Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal. A UNESCO World Heritage site, it is a magnificent coll...

Welcome This month we will take a tour of English Villages and Towns.There are literally thousands all over the UK and I’ve picked just 4 for this month. Aside from this week, the ones we will explore are not the high profile towns you might visit in tour packages. As you know I try to bring you inf