Love Paris but craving for somewhere a little more remote? Then look no further than the unspoilt countryside of the Ardèche. This area of rugged, untamed beauty in central-southern France is a panorama of green fields, rolling hills, crags and forests. This is rural France at its best and where English is not widely understood, so the ability to s...

The annual Dodson & Horrell Bolesworth International Horse Show offers five days of elite equestrian sport on the beautiful Bolesworth estate in Cheshire. The amphitheatre style main arena, with the Barbour's historic castle as the backdrop, is one of the most attractive anywhere and offers excellent all round viewing. This and the second Castl...

The Art of Staying at a Historic and (Possibly) Haunted Hotel Britain – the county where the first purpose-built inn (the Old Bell Hotel at Malmesbury) dates back to year 1220 - is full of historic places to stay. We Brits often tend to take them for granted, very much unlike, say, Australians (and I am a carrier of both British and Australian pass...

​The enduing story of Scotland's toughest Trekathon. ​As expected, the scenery was utterly breathtaking as our coaches wound their way from Event HQ at the foot of Ben Nevis into the massive half-pipe of Glencoe. They had needed double the allocation of coaches to ferry us to the start line this year. This allowed us to keep empty seats around us a...

​While the weather was not all one would wish for, a light shower or two was not going to get in the way of the Open Air Theatre's production of Carousel.Nor would it deter those of us lucky enough to be in the audience for this innovative and thought provoking revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein 1945 follow up to Oklahoma.We Open Air regulars ...

Foreign visitors come to London from all over the world - and a good many of them make it to a West End show. Lavish musicals like Phantom, Cats, Mamma and Les Mis have real international appeal and in the months and years to come, Frozen, Cinderella and Cabaret are sure to follow suit. And then there is The Windsors Endgames, a lewd, expletive sma...