Written by Sarah Owens (A Runner-up entry in the Heritage Writing Competition.) The smiling Maharaja bows and offers me a drink. “Madam, welcome to Bhanwar Vilas Palace.” He beckons me into a magnificent hallway lined with family portraits and dotted with stuffed tigers. It’s late afternoon and I’m hot, dusty, and shattered after travelling the […]
Northumberland is very well endowed with fine National Trust and English Heritage sites, including Cragside House, Belsay Hall and several castles, but my favourite property is Wallington. Situated just twenty miles NW of Newcastle in the first foothills of the Pennines, Wallington has everything to satisfy the discerning senior traveller in pursuit of interesting heritage […]
Senior Travel Expert’s Holiday Editor, Tony Taylor, and his wife have family connections with the Devon town of Sidmouth and hence have visited many times. Here are his tips for an enjoyable short break in this perfect, little, seaside town. Sidmouth is an attractive Regency seaside town on the south Devon coast. It is situated […]
Cheshire is well endowed with National Trust properties which include fascinating houses, large well-tended gardens and extensive parklands. This article focuses on my three favourite properties – Lyme, Dunham Massey and Little Moreton Hall – but includes mention of other National Trust and English Heritage sites in the county. Lyme My most recent visit to Lyme […]
Written by Alex Drobniewski (A Runner-up entry in the Heritage Writing Competition.) Situated as it is between the Roman grandeur of Nîmes and Avignon to the west, and the decadent riches of Cannes and San-Tropez to the east, France’s second city offers a heady mélange of cultures and sights. From an historic centre founded by […]
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National Trust Derbyshire: Calke Abbey
The National Trust promotes Calke Abbey as the ‘un-stately’ stately home, and indeed many of the rooms in the house are in a bad state of decoration and are overflowing with masses of bric-a brac. I found it interesting up to a point to check out what appealed to aristocratic hoarders and it made me […]