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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GET INSPIRED<br />
at Birch<br />
With a unique formula that encompasses contemporary design,<br />
fabulous food, stimulating workshops, and nature in abundance,<br />
<strong>British</strong> <strong>Travel</strong> <strong>Journal</strong> checks in to one of the country’s most exciting<br />
and inspiring new hotels: Birch (Selsdon)<br />
Text by Sophie Farrah<br />
formula – there is nature to restore calm, food to nourish,<br />
wellness to realign body and mind, and a programme of<br />
workshops to inspire. It may all sound very wholesome,<br />
but there are also several cocktail bars, regular DJs and<br />
a party atmosphere when night falls, and it has all been<br />
carefully – and beautifully – designed.<br />
Outside, what was once a vast golf course, aggressively<br />
mowed and manicured to within an inch of its life, has<br />
been left to rewild, and nature is quickly moving back in.<br />
Croydon isn’t exactly the first place that springs<br />
to mind when planning a country escape, but<br />
here, just 30 minutes south of London, lies<br />
one the UK’s most exciting new hotels. Birch<br />
(Selsdon) has taken the bones of a fusty, old-fashioned<br />
golf resort and transformed it, both inside and out, into an<br />
inspiring destination to stay, play, and immerse oneself in<br />
nature.<br />
Selsdon joins Birch’s existing hotel in Cheshunt,<br />
Hertfordshire, and both properties share the same unique<br />
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