Heston Blumenthal, owner of the Fat Duck at Bray and one of several celebrity British chefs, has become known for a number of bizarre concoctions. We’ve gathered a few of them together here for you to watch at your leisure. Useful link: UK restaurants
You’ve just got to love the South Bank. Theatre lovers can flock to the National, photographers can snap the impressive views from the London Eye and foodies can eat to their heart’s content at the abundance of restaurants and bars. The views of the Thames are simply wonderful in the summer and since we are [...]
Preseli Adventure is a fully licensed coasteering company who enjoy using stretches of the National Trust Pembrokeshire coastline in the name of adrenaline! Useful links: South Wales hotels South Wales B&Bs South Wales cottages South Wales campsites South Wales attractions
Who needs video games when we’ve already got bugs!!!?? Peel your children away from their Nintendo DS or that portable Playstation and get them outside enjoying the British countryside! How about a little bug hunting in the Yorkshire Dales for starters? The following video was shot two weeks ago…
Britain often gets bad press when it comes to food, but undeservedly so. There’s more to British food than fish & chips and bangers & mash. Watch the videos below from the Great British Menu and perhaps you’ll get a better insight into some of the fantastic food that can be enjoyed in Britain if [...]
Northumberland’s Haltwhistle and Wooler cycle hubs each consist of seven cycling routes of varying terrain and difficulty. And now you can download the GPX files for these cycle routes to use on your desktop PC or mobile phone. You can then use these files to navigate the cycle routes. You’ll also find a quick and easy [...]
Notting Hill Carnival has been held on the August Bank Holiday weekend every year since 1966, and is now the largest festival celebration of its kind in Europe. In fact, last year it attracted an estimated 1 million people. Get yourself along and enjoy the fun! And if you need a reminder of what the [...]
Considered to be one of Europe’s most beautiful and picturesque cities, the capital of Scotland lies on the rugged southeast coast of the country, its stunning landscape a product of pre-historic volcanic activity. Edinburgh sits atop a group of extinct volcanoes; its skyline dominated by a castle fortress perched high on Castle Rock, a collapsed [...]
TV channel Dave has revield the best and worst jokes as told at the famous 2011 Edinburgh Fringe. Up and coming comedian Nick Helm won the award for the best joke of the entertainment festival, but veteran magician Paul Daniels should perhaps stick to magic after being voted as having told the worst joke of [...]
It’s been a tradition for over two hundred years, and grows with annual popularity. At the top of a very steep Cooper’s Hill in the Cotswolds, southern England, held every year on the Spring Bank Holiday, twenty people hurl themselves after a runaway wheel of cheese. The cheese, Double Gloucester, is rolled down the hill [...]
