Durham isn’t most likely the first place to spring to mind when thinking of a family holiday in the UK. And while more visitors head over the North Pennines to the neighbouring Lake District, County Durham has so much to offer. We spent a week here during the school holidays …
We’ve been coming to Rye for years. Friends got married here and held their reception at The George. A good friend’s mum had her wedding do at the Mermaid Inn back in the 60s. Another friend’s sister runs Hoof, where the meat comes from their own farm just down the …
There are more than 20,000 restaurants in London, so let me say this plainly: no guide can list them all, and the ones that try tend to fill up with places nobody who lives here would choose. This one is different. Everything below is somewhere I’ve eaten, across years and …
For a small fishing village at the bottom of a steep valley, the restaurants in Polperro are seriously impressive. We ate in the village for every meal during our stay and never ran out of options – from fresh seafood on the harbour to stonebaked pizza carried back to our …
Five years ago, we stumbled on Polperro at the end of a coastal walk from Talland Bay. My youngest was four, the sun was out, and the village appeared around the cliff edge like something from a painting – wonky cottages, bobbing boats, glassy harbour water. We ate on the …
I fondly remember family holidays in Torquay and Paignton – those carefree days of paddling in the sea, playing crazy golf with my parents and breaking my teeth on sticks of rock. Devon’s coastline shaped my love of the seaside, and now I get to share it all with my …