Posts tagged england

I am an immigrant – and thus by definition an emigrant, as well – by descent. Parents and grandparents on both sides of my family …

Glastonbury has been branded the ‘festival of festivals’ – and now I know why. One hundred and fifty thousand people camping, drinking, laughing, sunbathing, dancing …

This Friday Ledbury, Herefordshire will become home to the world’s largest poetry festival: ten days of all things rhythm, rhyme and verse in the picture …

I was not one of those prepubescent princesses who dreamed of owning a pony. Of grooming it tenderly, of plaiting ribbons into its mane, of …

In need of getting out of London, but don’t want to travel too far? Look no further than the prettiest city in the Cotswolds – …

I’ve thought about this a fair bit, and the first thing that came to my mind as quintessentially local was definitely hardcore and its development …

Newcastle is a delightful riparian gem of reassuring Georgian architecture sloping down towards the Tyne River in the northeast of England. Grey Street, in particular, …

Nestled in a bucolic arcadia of merrie England, Winchester is the ancient capital of a forgotten kingdom. It has that venerable beauty you only get …

The Spiegeltent in the ‘London Wonderground’ is the home of an unconventional variety of performances which seemingly could leave the audience ‘spellbound’.  Located on the …

I’m British, this means a number of things; I’m fairly conservative, I’m often self deprecating and above all I have a problem when it comes …