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If all the baby grapes ripen into adult bunches, the roof will cave in, which would be a shame because we can only use this room in Summer. ...

Which is bad news for Tunstall. As the coast erodes and falls into the sea, the point where the Meridian line leaves the UK and heads ...

Our second day we took a trip to a salt mine. It’s a working mine but didn’t feel like it, prettified for the tourists so that oddly any sen...

It’s a beautiful city. There’s a centre with a maze of largely pedestrian streets and alleys, the weather warm enough for us to sit outside ...

It is hard to give impressions of a country on the basis of a one-day trip. Not that it was literally a one-day trip. But the other three ...

It just doesn’t feel like British weather but I expect we say that every year. And it is April. April showers and all that. However, we went...

I’ve only just been told that it’s national poetry month so I thought I should mark the occasion with a couple of recommendations. I won’t g...