British Travel Journal | Spring 2020
Eco-friendly tourism is at the top of our 2020 travel agenda. We have introduced a new Sustainable Travel series, kicking off this issue with ideas for Environmental Volunteering, in an eco-conscious quest of our own, we have discovered a supplier of recyclable paper wraps for sending our magazines in the mail. Next issue we will be featuring the UK’s finest eco-friendly holiday homes so, if you know of any hidden gems you are happy to share, please get in touch. Back to this issue - our 10 of The Best Charity Challenges, are sure to inspire. From cycling across Britain to skydiving from 15,000 feet, you can raise some vital charity donations while pushing yourself to your limits. The World Pilot Gig Championships is a seaside spectacle like no other on The Isles of Scilly this May, and we go Behind-the-Scenes ahead of The Cheltenham Festival, this March. Other destinations we uncover this season include the beautiful Lake District, spending a wonderful 48 Hours in St Mawes and the Roseland, an adventure packed weekend on The Isle of Man, and, arguably with the best views in London, our In the Capital series this season takes us to discover the highlights of leafy Greenwich. As always I hope this issue helps to inspire your travel experiences, and the spring season brings you many magical moments spent savouring the glorious British Isles - wherever you choose to visit.
Eco-friendly tourism is at the top of our 2020 travel agenda. We have introduced a new Sustainable Travel series, kicking off this issue with ideas for Environmental Volunteering, in an eco-conscious quest of our own, we have discovered a supplier of recyclable paper wraps for sending our magazines in the mail. Next issue we will be featuring the UK’s finest eco-friendly holiday homes so, if you know of any hidden gems you are happy to share, please get in touch. Back to this issue - our 10 of The Best Charity Challenges, are sure to inspire. From cycling across Britain to skydiving from 15,000 feet, you can raise some vital charity donations while pushing yourself to your limits. The World Pilot Gig Championships is a seaside spectacle like no other on The Isles of Scilly this May, and we go Behind-the-Scenes ahead of The Cheltenham Festival, this March. Other destinations we uncover this season include the beautiful Lake District, spending a wonderful 48 Hours in St Mawes and the Roseland, an adventure packed weekend on The Isle of Man, and, arguably with the best views in London, our In the Capital series this season takes us to discover the highlights of leafy Greenwich. As always I hope this issue helps to inspire your travel experiences, and the spring season brings you many magical moments spent savouring the glorious British Isles - wherever you choose to visit.
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the idea grew from there. It turns<br />
out that this was quite a unique<br />
proposition as no-one else has<br />
taken on the challenge in quite the<br />
way we have.”<br />
The Bridger’s launched<br />
their first perfume in Fortnum<br />
& Mason in 2017, and three<br />
years on, with open gardens,<br />
a bistro, a gift shop as well as<br />
perfume workshops and a busy<br />
year-round events programme,<br />
Parterre is now a thriving creative<br />
and experimental hub.<br />
Julia, David and their team<br />
grow, harvest and distill all the<br />
key ingredients for their luxury<br />
perfumes on-site – with all<br />
50-acres dedicated solely to<br />
aromatic and scented plants.<br />
“There are over 1500 varieties<br />
currently in cultivation,” explains<br />
Julia. Beautiful and gloriously<br />
scented, these gardens are also<br />
practical trial beds where unusual<br />
varieties are grown and distilled<br />
in small batches, and are then<br />
planted out in the fields for use in<br />
future perfumes.<br />
Designs for the trial beds and<br />
Collection gardens – which house<br />
all the plants used in the fragrances<br />
- have been thoughtfully put<br />
together, divided into distinct<br />
sections and often created with<br />
consideration for history and<br />
heritage of some of the great<br />
gardens of the world.<br />
The gloriously scented Padua<br />
garden is home to the floral family<br />
of fragrances, featuring roses,<br />
jasmine, sweet peas and lilies, and<br />
is based on the design of the Orto<br />
Botanico, founded in 1545 in Italy<br />
by the Venetian Republic. “This<br />
garden is beautiful year-round,”<br />
says Julia. “From early spring when<br />
the bulbs emerge, through the<br />
summer months when the roses, à<br />
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