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The Heights Isle of Portland - Weymouth, United Kingdom - May, 2007
The highs and the lows of The Heights (04.07.2007 23:11)
The Heights - you couldn't really call this hotel anything else. Well maybe "Belle Vue" if it hadn't already been taken by every seaside guest-house from Margate to Blackpool. We had never been in this corner of England before, so had armed ourselves with a map of how to find the hotel. Out of Weymouth, across the causeway beside the magnificent Chesil Beach on to the Isle of Portland, then up [more...]

Sheffield Park Garden - Uckfield, United Kingdom
Another Sheffield (08.02.2007 12:28)
When does a garden cease to be a garden and become a park, or an estate? About the same time, I reckon, as you can add an s, as in Kew Gardens. But Sheffield Park Garden resolutely sticks to the singular. Perhaps because it has Park in the title already, or feels it has a singularity of purpose and design. Whatever. It is certainly not a garden the way you and I understand it. Nor is it [more...]

King's College Chapel - Cambridge, United Kingdom
Fit for a king (08.11.2006 21:22)
I was surprised that King's College Chapel was not yet in the catalogue. I thought it was just me not getting out enough, but now it seems you lot haven't visited it either. Do go. Don't put it off or just look at the pictures. It really is a jewel of English gothic architecture. Middle England and the wider world know King's from the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols broadcast live on [more...]