British Travel Journal | Autumn/Winter 2023
There’s so much variety throughout this issue, bursting with breathtaking travel destinations, new hotels and extraordinary one-of-a-kind experiences. We cycle around Rutland’s 23-mile perimeter on a gourmet foodie trail, sleep under the stars in a wigwam surrounded by leopards at Port Lympne Safari Park in Kent, join an early morning meadowland wildlife walk and meet the resident bees of Calcot Manor in the Cotswolds, and spend a day enjoying magnificent gardens and cyder-making at The Newt in Somerset. Our journalists uncover the hottest new hotels while partaking in a nature-inspired pottery session at the Birch Selsdon and enjoying flower arranging at Cromlix with tennis star Andy Murray's wife Kim. My own travel highlights include walking across the Rhossili Downs, visiting the exquisite region of the Gower Peninsula and taking a dip in Tinker Bunny’s Bathing Pool during a luxury stay at Atlanta Trevone in North Cornwall. With so much to both see and do, it's time to get creative with our travel trips!
There’s so much variety throughout this issue, bursting with breathtaking travel destinations, new hotels and extraordinary one-of-a-kind experiences.
We cycle around Rutland’s 23-mile perimeter on a gourmet foodie trail, sleep under the stars in a wigwam surrounded by leopards at Port Lympne Safari Park in Kent, join an early morning meadowland wildlife walk and meet the resident bees of Calcot Manor in the Cotswolds, and spend a day enjoying magnificent gardens and cyder-making at The Newt in Somerset. Our journalists uncover the hottest new hotels while partaking in a nature-inspired pottery session at the Birch Selsdon and enjoying flower arranging at Cromlix with tennis star Andy Murray's wife Kim. My own travel highlights include walking across the Rhossili Downs, visiting the exquisite region of the Gower Peninsula and taking a dip in Tinker Bunny’s Bathing Pool during a luxury stay at Atlanta Trevone in North Cornwall. With so much to both see and do, it's time to get creative with our travel trips!
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ISLES OF SCILLY<br />
Blockhouse, Tresco<br />
If you’re looking for the ultimate place to stay on the island of<br />
Tresco, this could be it. Just steps from the sand, with particularly<br />
lovely views through the bifold doors in the kitchen, The<br />
Blockhouse also has its own sauna and steam room, plus a yoga<br />
and Pilates studio. The seven bedrooms aren’t bad, either.<br />
A week for 16 from £8,750; tresco.co.uk<br />
NORTH DEVON<br />
The Collective at<br />
Woolsery<br />
The man who created the social-media site<br />
Bebo is now sharing his ancestral village<br />
home with us. Some of Michael Birch’s family<br />
still live in the village of Woolsery, in North<br />
Devon, and it’s there that he has revived the<br />
local pub, the Farmers Arms, as well as the<br />
post office, fish ‘n’ chips shop and farm. Now<br />
you can stay in one of three cottages, two<br />
suites, or two village rooms, all beautifully<br />
kitted out in colourful contemporary fabrics,<br />
with a real sense of theatre about them. They<br />
sleep from two to eight people; a manor<br />
house is also being restored. ◆<br />
Cottage for two from £450 a night;<br />
woolsery.com<br />
Editor loves<br />
SCOTLAND<br />
Glen Glack cabins<br />
Although they were inspired by traditional bothies,<br />
the five lochside boltholes that have just opened on<br />
Perthshire’s Atholl Estates don’t share the no-frills<br />
ethos. Instead, they have a modern, minimalist design;<br />
one cabin for two also has an outside bath to<br />
truly immerse yourself in nature. Spend your days<br />
exploring the Cairngorms National Park; guests<br />
get free entry to Blair Castle. ◆<br />
From £175 a night for two; atholl-estates.co.uk<br />
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