The Horse Trust, Home of Rest for Horses is set in 200 acres of beautiful Chiltern countryside between High Wycombe and Aylesbury, just outside Princes Risborough. Our Home of Rest for Horses is at the heart of our charity. It is here that we care for 100 retired and rescued… more
Stowe House Stowe In the 18th century, the powerful Temple-Grenville family chose to create an idyllic landscape filled with temples. Amidst these enchanting gardens, they built the most lavish temple of all, Stowe House, famous during its 18th-century heyday as an important artistic masterpiece. In 1922, in the face of… more
Bedfordshire’s only Michelin star restaurant is tucked away in a corner of England’s finest countryside, within beautiful piece of parkland on the Woburn Abbey estate. It’s barely sign-posted on the A4012 so I miss the entrance and end up a few miles down the road in quaint Woburn village. I… more
If like me whenever you check out of a hotel room many of the toiletries “accidentally” fall into your wash bag the odds are they will have been supplied by Baylis and Harding, one of the leading brands in that field. But what we have in the Warwickshire hamlet of… more
A team of Network Rail’s orange army have volunteered their time to help create a new habitat for one of the UK’s rarest butterfly at a new site next to a Buckinghamshire railway line to ensure their survival. This communication contains embedded YouTube video. View it on the website. On… more
The Five Alls Filkins It is not often that I get cross when I do these restaurant reviews, but after visiting the Five Alls at Filkins I was fuming, why have I not been here before , my sort of place, my sort of food. Filkins is about 30 minutes… more
The beautiful Chiltern Hills are home to picturesque villages, 324 square miles of open countryside, great transport links and schools – an nearer to London that the Cotswolds. so that means they are a better long-term investment, according to a recent article in the Evening Standard. Estate agent Lindsay Cuthill,… more
St Giles House in Dorset, the ancestral seat of the Earls of Shaftesbury, has been announced as the winner of the 2015 Historic Houses Association (HHA) & Sotheby’s Restoration Award. The house, which has remained in the family since the 14th-century, had been left abandoned and derelict for over 50 years.… more
The Holiday Inn Stratford-upon-Avon is on the banks of the beautiful River Avon and is in the heart of Shakespeare country so is the perfect place for those that like to relax and unwind, or explore and discover. Two nights for 2 plus 3-course dinner with wine We have two… more
Lokum Istanbul is a beautiful shop in London’s Knightsbridge selling perfume and gifts that represent the culture and history of Istanbul. And given its location you would expect everything to be prohibitively expensive. Everything is of the highest quality and impeccably packaged and wrapped. But if you are looking for a special… more
