Posted by Paul on June 22, 2009 – 10:49 pm
Despite the UK not being renowned for its cuisine, it has a wealth of great restaurants. We asked via our Twitter account what your favourite UK restaurants are and why. Here’s 9 of your responses that caught our eye.
- fifteen Newquay, amazing service, quality of food awesome, occasion and most importantly the memory…thanks Rebecca I love you.Rx (@richardbeldon)
- TheSailorsSafety,Pwllgwaelod,Pembrokeshire fits my “fab restaurant criteria”: Best fresh British fish, on coast & non-surly staff! (@agaqueen)
- My local; The Jolly Frog – fab seafood at very reasonable prices and fab views without being stuffy (@HoptonHouseBnB)
- The Bengal Spice in Caernarfon. Excellent food (especially the vindaloo), and fantastic service – friendly and attentive. (@debbidoo)
- My fave is the Thai Restaurant in New Cross, London! It’s across from college, it’s affordable and the food is so flavorful. (@CarrieAWilliams)
- I love the As You Like It cafe in Stratford. The food is great, it is not too expensive, and the atmosphere cannot be beat! (@mayburygrrl)
- River Cafe. Outstanding food, simple effective service, herb garden to die for. Sexy wine list from £12 a bottle. It rocks. (@SarahLotus)
- I love a restaurant in Earlsfield in London called Amaranth, it is Thai home cookicng, very cheap, always busy with lovely service (@tomfoster007)
- frankie and bennys, reasonable priced food, good music, good atmosphere..x (@cherrybun)
What’s your favourite restaurant in the UK and why?
Posted by Paul on June 22, 2009 – 10:42 pm
The Travelodge sale for this winter has begun with £9 rooms available for stays between 1st November 2009 and 31st January 2010. With over 380 hotels in the UK, you should be able to find one at a convenient location. Click here to book online.
Posted by Jennifer on June 22, 2009 – 9:00 am
Today’s picture of the day is of Hull Marina situated on the beautiful Humber Estuary. In order to cater for an increasing number of leisure crafts, the marina re-opened in 1983 and has room for approximately 300 crafts. It is within easy reach of Hull town centre and offers an array of shops, restaurants, cafes and pubs nearby.
Posted by Paul on June 21, 2009 – 11:36 pm
Bristol is famous for its Clifton Suspension Bridge, hot air balloons and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, but now something else has hit the city by storm… Banksy.
Bristol born Banksy, the world famous urban graffiti artist, has returned to his home town to hold an exclusive exhibition. Banksy Vs Bristol Museum is a groundbreaking display of new and previously unseen work by the internationally acclaimed but somewhat elusive graffiti artist.
Located at the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Banksy Vs Bristol Museum is free to enter and features over 100 works of art including animatronics, installations, stencil art, sculptures and sensory displays, with nearly 80 new works being on show to the public for the first time ever. The exhibition will run every day from 10am to 5pm until Monday, 31st August 2009.
Posted by Jennifer on June 21, 2009 – 9:00 am
Today’s picture of the day is of Cwm Giedd Forest Park in Powys, Wales. It is situated in a picturesque and tranquil area and offers various walks, mountain bike trails and picnic areas through the wonderful countryside. It is easily accessible via the A4067 Swansea to Ystragynlais road.
Posted by Jennifer on June 20, 2009 – 9:00 am
Today’s picture of the day is of Slains Castle in Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire. It is situated on the North Sea Coast and is one of the most famous Castle in Scotland thanks to its association with Dracula. Slains Castle was built in 1597 by the 9th of Earl of Erroll. It lies on steep cliffs and enjoys spectacular views.
Posted by Paul on June 20, 2009 – 12:27 am
Visitors to Brighton will find plenty of vibrant festivals to enjoy this summer, including ‘Brighton Pride – Beside the Seaside’ (25th July – 2nd August 2009), which is the biggest free gay pride festival in the UK. There will be events and parties running over a week-long celebration, which culminates in a colourful carnival parade and party attended by over 100,000 party lovers in Preston Park on 1st August 2009.
Posted by Paul on June 19, 2009 – 2:33 pm
The Wedgwood Museum in Stoke-on-Trent has won the £100,000 Art Fund Prize 2009 – the UK’s largest single arts prize. It was announced last night (18th June 2009) at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London.
The Art Fund Prize honours the most imaginative and original museum or gallery of the year and is a huge accolade for the museum, which only opened last October after the charitable Wedgwood Museum Trust spent nearly a decade raising funds to build it.
The museum is home to a vast collection of Wedgwood editions, as well as an extensive archive of social history documents, from copies of birth certificates to details of employees who have worked for the Wedgwood company over the last 250 years. It is open daily from 10.00am to 5.00pm (from 9.00am on weekdays). Admission is £6.00 for adults, £5.00 for concessions or £4.50 for children (under fives go free).
Posted by Paul on June 19, 2009 – 2:03 pm
We’ve been busy working behind the scenes on UKseries this past few months, tweaking the sites in a such a way that they now used tabbed browsing. The upshot of this is that when you now look at an individual entry (eg. a hotel, holiday cottage, tourist attraction or whatever) on any of the UKseries sites, you can find the information you need much more readily. Before, these pages used to be quite long, with links to all manner of information (maps, weather, etc.). It’s all potentially very useful but wasn’t as easy to access as it could be. Now, with the new tabbed approach, very little scrolling is required and you can find the information you need much more readily.
Try it out with this example entry for the famous Wild Boar Hotel just up the road from us here in the Lake District. The link takes you to the main page for that entry, with tabs to ‘more info’, ‘in the area’, a ‘booking’ page and ‘extras’. Within each section, there is information that’s easily accessible without the need for the scroll bar, such as additional pictures of the hotel, guest reviews, nearby tourist attractions and more.
We hope you like the new look. We think it makes the site more user friendly which in turn should have a positive impact on bookings and bringing our visitors back.
If you have any comments or feedback you’d like to share – good or bad – please don’t be shy… post a comment!
Posted by Paul on June 19, 2009 – 11:24 am
Tomorrow Historic Royal Palaces will mark the 500th anniversary of King Henry VIII’s coronation (24th June 1509) with a magnificent Tudor river pageant rowing from the Tower of London up the River Thames to the King’s favourite surviving royal residence, Hampton Court Palace. This event is being held in association with Thames Alive.
Henry VIII’s Coronation weekend celebrations will be the highlight event in Historic Royal Palaces’ year-long celebrations marking the 500th anniversary of the mighty monarch’s accession to the throne. The Tower of London is holding a major exhibition, Henry VIII: Dressed to Kill, bringing together the most stunning display of the King’s personal arms and armour ever seen in the UK, whilst Hampton Court Palace is hosting Henry VIII: heads and hearts, a series of unmissable special events and exhibitions at the great Tudor palace which has been majestically transformed for the landmark year.
