As you arrive at Croome, a National Trust property 10 miles south of Worcester, you are greeted with a sign stating: Expect the Unexpected. Intriguing, but indeed it proved to be quite true when my wife and I visited Croome Court and Park on a cold but sunny weekday in January. The first unexpected was maybe […]
North Yorkshire is well endowed with magnificent remains of medieval monasteries. I’ve visited and written about many of them, including Fountains Abbey, Reivaulx Abbey and Whitby Abbey. However there are two abbeys that I had driven passed many times, but never stopped to explore: Jervaulx Abbey and Bolton Abbey. Maybe as a member of English […]
There are thirteen National Trust properties in Norfolk including five spectacular coastal sites. However my favourite properties are the estates at Blickling and Felbrigg, situated fourteen and twenty-one miles respectively north of Norwich. Both Blickling Estate and Felbrigg Hall, Gardens and Estate – to give them their full National Trust titles – are well endowed […]
STE’s Holiday Editor, Tony Taylor, reports on his experiences on a Saga Holidays tour of Central America. After travelling around Panama, and Costa Rica, the tour moved on to Colombia. The group taking the tour extension to Colombia left at 5 am to fly via Bogotá to Cartagena, the base for our three days in […]
I’ve visited almost every country in Western and Central Europe over the last 40 years, but the three Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia had eluded me, until now! My initial idea was to fly to one of these capitals and hire a car. There are many budget airline flights to Vilnius (capital of […]
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Heart of the Silk Route: a Saga Tour of Uzbekistan
STE’s Holiday Editor, Tony Taylor, reports on his experiences on an extended version of the Heart of the Silk Route, a Saga Holidays tour of Uzbekistan. My wife has long been interested in the Silk Road and after watching Joanna Lumley’s fascinating television programme on the subject, we booked the Saga Holidays tour called Uzbekistan: Heart […]