, remote, and beautifully understated—this is outdoor dining with a sense of place right out in the hills Great food and good rooms. https://www.themaltstersarms.co.uk The Maltsters at Tuckenay in South Devon www.thedrewearms.co.uk The Drewe Arms at pretty little Drewsteignton on the edge of Dartmoor The Millbrook Inn, South Arms, Crowcombe A classic village pub with a generous lawn and right next to the beautiful Quantock Hills

Devon alone has an astounding 33,000 miles of hedgerow. But hedges aren’t just there for wildlife. Deepest and Oldest Lanes These wonderful tunnels of life are a feature of a good many parts of the South granite areas of Dartmoor and West Penwith, but if you visit the red sandstone zones of East Devon or the South Records in the 1950s show Devon alone had a staggering 45,000 miles of hedges compared to the pretty

Returning to the Similans Years ago, when I first visited the Similan Archipelago — situated about 40 miles Explore my full collection of island guides, culinary adventures, and travel features on the new South climbed to the 1,000-foot peak of the island seeing, on the way, the one singular manmade item that spoke a palm tree and on it was a kid’s painting depicting some big waves and a stick-man running away up hill

If you want to visit an island that does exactly the opposite - a place which goes the extra mile in - an ancient restaurant built into the even more ancient city fortifications up on Cagliari’s main hill This was soft, melt-in-the-mouth stuff - big on savouriness, small on chew-ability.

Most people who travel out to the island attempt the circumnavigation of this three mile long, half-mile landing jetty for refreshments or supplies, walk past St Helena's Church and west to the cliffs of South Then it is south again, past the remains of the old gun battery called Brazen Ward. Once across Threequarter Wall, you can chose either to walk directly south along the island’s central The cliffs at the south-eastern corner of the round-ish isle rise some 160 feet from the swirling waves

because everyone has heard of Italy’s mountainous World Heritage shoreline which grandstands its way south rock itself is dramatic enough - terminating, as it does, the massive, blue, Vesuvius-dominated, sweep south Where the Bay of Naples sweeps south it veers abruptly west to come to its final, rocky, lands-end near This mountainous finger - which points a few miles across the Mediterranean to the Isle of Capri - is

opposite my old West Country school there was a field called Battle Gore, the legend of which used to fill it would be to go on an interesting trip abroad in a manner that would not cost the planet more air-miles also met two ladies on the train to Kolding in central Denmark who told me they’d just done an entire month With its deep historical roots and contemporary cultural offerings, Kolding is sometimes billed as a wanted to leave his own big mark on the landscape which, in Jelling’s case, came in the shape of a mile-long

discover that one of the West Country’s most dedicated traditional woodsmen hails from the sprawl of South charcoal often imported from abroad and sold in supermarkets… “A lot of imported supermarket charcoal is filled an 18th-century scene in the Quantocks -William Walford, the Over Stowey charcoal-burner, out on the hills “And whom, in the despair and frustration of a miserable wedlock, he was soon to kill and leave in a Then, for Walford, these swinging end on the creaking gibbet on the hill.”

We can’t grow much in the way of arable crops on the high hills of Exmoor, but we do grow excellent grass supplying lamb direct and accompanying film has just been released and is available on-line from Exmoor Hill and the environment by using both traditional and modern sustainable farming methods and keeping food miles The Exmoor Hill Farming Network is welcoming enquiries from retail, food and hospitality businesses who

And that is partly why Ian’s plan was such a wonderful idea - because, along much of this five-mile length duchessofcocklemoor.co.uk/ The Story of the Parrett Before it Reaches Langport The River Parrett originates in the low hills This journey is mirrored by the 50-mile-long Parrett Trail. North Perrott and the town of Crewkerne and skirts around communities such as Merriott, West Chinnock, South From here, the Parrett meanders a rather wonderful and scenic mile to reach Langport, a town whose name

Search the high-tide gravel line after strong south-easterly storms for the best chance of spotting one In Bristol, for example, debates over place names like Whiteladies Road and Blackboy Hill highlight the After a good south-easterly storm, the beads are sometimes washed ashore, offering a poignant reminder "You really need a good south-easterly storm." occasionally find beads by scanning the gravel shoreline on their hands and knees, particularly after heavy south-easterly

In celebration, August has been declared the “Month of Chocolate” on the island. Anyway, I took a tour of the estate’s remarkable gardens in the hills just behind the scenic little seaside You can break open a cocoa pod and pull out one of the white beans and pop it into your mouth. material then goes through another process sometimes called coaching in which things like that sugar, milk powder (for milk chocolate) and other flavourings are added.