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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1BEST FOR EQUESTRIAN FANS<br />
Catch race fever at Britain’s horsey HQ<br />
Newmarket has a horse-racing pedigree like no<br />
other town, dating back to the reign of James I over<br />
400 years ago, and still with royal connections today. A<br />
day at the races isn’t the only way to enjoy it. On a halfday<br />
‘Newmarket Experience’, watch horses and their<br />
jockeys limber up for the day on the Newmarket Gallops,<br />
visit a working racing yard then, via some coffee and<br />
cake, finish up at The National Stud. Spread across 500<br />
acres, it breeds and trains some of Britain’s finest horses.<br />
Ex champions come here for a pampered retirement too<br />
– meet celebs like Stradivarius, The Tin Man and Lord<br />
Windermere, alongside breeding mares and, if you’re<br />
lucky, some cute newborn foals.<br />
Newmarket Experience tours are on Fridays, year-round<br />
and cost £65 per person (private tours also available for an<br />
extra charge); discovernewmarket.co.uk<br />
2BEST FOR CHOCOHOLICS<br />
Make your own sweet treats in the<br />
chocolate capital<br />
Chocolate…most of us love it. Make it yourself<br />
and it tastes all the sweeter. There’s nowhere better to<br />
learn than in York, with its 300-year tradition of chocolate<br />
making. At one time, 14,000 people were employed here<br />
in huge factories, from the likes of Rowntree’s, Terry’s and<br />
Craven’s. York’s Chocolate Story can tell you more – and<br />
now it is also offering a new VIP Chocolate Masterclass<br />
to give more of a hands-on, not to mention a mouths-on<br />
experience. You will soon be tempering, moulding, filling<br />
and sealing, piping and decorating your own creations.<br />
Before you’re let loose, an expert chocolatier will first<br />
demonstrate the techniques. When you’re done, your<br />
chocolates will be beautifully packaged up for you to take<br />
home. Or you could just wolf them all yourself before you<br />
get there!<br />
The VIP masterclass is from 7pm to 9pm on Thursday nights<br />
and costs £79.95 per person; yorkschocolatestory.com<br />
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