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Wiltshire ’
Jul 22nd, 2017 |
By Adrian Lawes
As new security measures are introduced on flights to the US, Adrian also looks forward to the end of credit card charges whilst wondering if airfares and holidays will increase in price next year.
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Arundel Castle, Chicago, Coventry, credit card charges, drunken passengers, Electric Railway Museum, Ibiza, jousting, Mallorca, Marwell Zoo, Menorca, RICKFEST, Slovenia, Turkey, Unity Temple, USA, Wiltshire, Winchester Science Festival
Nov 7th, 2016 |
By The Editor
In this, the 50th anniversary of Longleat, this year’s Festival of Light is threatening to be the most spectacular.
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Tags: Beatrix Potter, Longleat, The Festival of Light, Wiltshire
Dec 28th, 2012 |
By The Editor
January 2013 marks the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice, the most popular novel from one of England’s best loved authors, Jane Austen
Posted in Travel destinations, Travel news, Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Chatsworth, Derbyshire, Devonshire, England, Jane Austen, Kent, oxford, Pride and Prejudice, Wiltshire
Sep 26th, 2012 |
By The Editor
To celebrate the latest James Bond instalment, Skyfall, and in time for the first ever global James Bond Day on 5 October, experiences and attractions website GoSeeDo.com has handpicked a range of 007-inspired activities sure to shake and stir up even the coolest adventurer
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Tags: 007, Buckingham Palace, Cutty Sark, Harrods, Houses of Parlia, James Bond, Oxfordshire, River Thames, Skyfall, St. Paul's, Thames Barrier, Wiltshire
Sep 21st, 2012 |
By The Editor
It’s an autumn rainbow of colours and you don’t have to fork out hundreds of pounds on a plane ticket to New England to be dazzled by this much-loved season.Right on our doorstep is a wealth of woodlands, parklands, forests and gardens which all come alive in spectacular fashion every autumn
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Tags: Cornwall, Cumbria, High Weald, Kent, London, New England, Perthshire, UK, Visit Wiltshire, Wales, Westonbirt, Wiltshire
Sep 8th, 2012 |
By The Editor
The trend for creating highly visible works of art looks set to continue with today’s public opening of Northumberlandia, ‘Goddess of the North’ – the latest of a number of big and bold public works dotted across the English landscape
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Tags: Cerne Giant, Dorset, England, Gateshead, Kent, London, Newcastle, Northumberland, Olympic Park, Visit England, Wiltshire
Feb 3rd, 2012 |
By The Editor
Boutique hotel experts Mr & Mrs Smith have sifted through the schmaltz to find Valentine’s packages that will really set hearts aflutter (and won’t involve soggy petals clogging the plughole). Here are 10 hot properties that offer something a little bit different…
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Tags: A'jia Hotel, amsterdam, Aquapura, Buckinghamshire, Canal House, Cornwall, Douro Valley, Florence, Grand Hotel Villa Cora, Hampshire, Istanbul, Italy, La Mamounia, Lime Wood, London, Lucknam Park Hotel & Spa, Marrakech, Morocco, Mr & Mrs Smith, Netherlands, Portugal, St Moritz Hotel, Stoke Park, The Connaught, Turkey, Wiltshire
Feb 3rd, 2010 |
By The Editor
This year sees a lot of anniversaries being celebrated in Wiltshire. Ask people what they know about the county and they might come up with Salisbury, Salisbury Plain, Longleat and Stonehenge. It suffers from being a county that the M4 goes through and many times that is as much as a tourist sees. Yet the motorway only cuts through the northern fringes so the farmland that they see from the road says little about the county.
But this year you’ll hear a lot more about it.
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Tags: Bristol Aero Museum, Great Western Railway, Kennet & Avon Canal, Salisbury, Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum, Swindon, Wiltshire