[03.10.2006] Driving Days have been popular as presents and corporate days for many years now. I've often looked at the gift packages provided by the likes of Virgin, Red Letter Days, Lastminute.com and other similar providers and come to the conclusion that, although they sound like fun, they don't really sound good value for money. Parting with the best part of £200 seems to give you about an hours driving with the car often s [more]

[29.09.2006] Bored of hotel chains? Find the traditional English B&B a little dull? Resent paying through the nose for individual treatment that sometimes fails to live up to the price paid? There are alternatives, one of which is a relatively new form of hotel: a restaurant with rooms. My husband and I sought such an alternative on our last holiday as a childless couple this May. We both enjoy fine dining although being p [more]

[12.08.2006] The Eden Project has oft been touted as one of the new wonders of the modern world. Five years on from its opening in 2001, does it live up to this claim? Situated in picturesque Cornwall, not far from St Austell, The Eden Project has regenerated an old mining area and replaced an open china clay pit with three huge "biomes", two of which are polymer covered structures which are kept at varying temperatures to sho [more]