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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BEST FOR (UNDERGROUND)<br />
TRAINSPOTTERS<br />
Explore fascinating bits of London never<br />
seen by the general public<br />
Did you know there are huge areas of the London<br />
Underground not accessible to the public? Unless,<br />
that is, you book a London Transport Museum Hidden<br />
London tour. On the Charing Cross station tour, walk<br />
beneath Trafalgar Square to see parts of the Jubilee<br />
line closed since 1999 and used as a film and TV<br />
location for the likes of Killing Eve, Skyfall and Thor:The<br />
Dark World. The Down Street tour looks at a stationonly<br />
open from 1907 to 1932, then used as the Railway<br />
Executive Committee’s secret HQ and as a shelter for<br />
Churchill at the height of the Blitz during WWII. The<br />
newest tour is Baker Street, oldest underground station<br />
in the world, opened in 1863. See original platforms<br />
and disused lift shafts and hear how it developed from<br />
Victorian underground steam travel to today’s 10<br />
platforms and five underground lines.<br />
Tours cost from £44 (£39 concessions). Under 14s not<br />
permitted; ltmuseum.co.uk/hidden-london<br />
7BEST FOR TEA DRINKERS<br />
Wander through Britain’s first tea<br />
plantation<br />
We are famously a nation of avid tea lovers – but<br />
how about tasting a ‘proper’ <strong>British</strong> brew, from leaves<br />
grown right here? Tea bushes were first established<br />
on the 700-year-old Tregothnan estate in Cornwall<br />
in 2005. There are now 26 miles of them, thriving in a<br />
breathtakingly beautiful creekside area of the Fal River.<br />
The company’s River Garden Tour takes visitors on a<br />
fascinating wander through the plantation, stopping<br />
to pick some fresh leaf tips along the way and to learn<br />
about different varieties, and the history, of tea, plus the<br />
secrets of successful planting and harvesting. Your guide<br />
will also lead you through orchards of ancient apples and<br />
rare Kea plums. Afterwards, taste some teas and visit the<br />
shop so you can stock up on your favourite to continue<br />
the experience when you get home.<br />
The River Garden Tour takes two to three hours and costs<br />
from £65; tregothnan.co.uk<br />
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