Bath has to be one of England’s most beautiful cities and perhaps one of its most unique, for this stunningly amazing place is not just famous for its ancient Roman Baths (Aquae Sulis), dating back to 60AD, but for its stunning Georgian Regency architecture and, of course a certain Jane Austen, who brought regency Bath…
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Mells, Wells, Bells and Smells
If you wanted more picture postcard England, then Mells in Somerset is it. Straight out of ‘Midsomer Murders’, this impossibly bucolic village oozes the very essence of Englishness (without the murders of course). The lush hedgerows heave with earthy Cow Parsley, beaming Yellow Gorse, pale pink Dog Rose, towering Foxgloves and the heady early summer…
Charleston and the Churches
It would be hard to pick a more bucolic English setting than Charleston Farmhouse in East Sussex. Once the home of Vanessa Bell, her lover Duncan Grant and, as was their modernist way, his lover David Garnett. This was a very unconventional household for 1916. Part of the Bloomsbury Group, they were some of the…
Ancient Rye and The Barren Nuclear Wasteland of Dungeness
Eastwards along the south coast from Hastings lies the old sea port of Rye, founded in 1289 and a member of the Cinque Ports, a confederation of English Channel ports (Hastings, New Romney, Hythe, Dover and Sandwich) dating back to around 1350. Rye, a royal dockyard and shipyard provided half of the ships and mariners…
Travels With My Ant 