GILLY PICKUP recommends some great holidays for older travellers travelling on their own and offers tips to avoiding the dreaded single-room supplement So, you’re going on holiday alone. Perhaps it is for the first time and you feel a little apprehensive or you are a...
MIKE PICKUP takes a look around P&O Cruises newest ship Britannia What with clothes for travelling, formal evening wear for the black tie dinner, and smart day wear for the Queen, we needed a lot of luggage for just one overnight! Named by Her Majesty the Queen on...
LOUISE MIDGLEY selects her favourite National Trust houses and a forest which have been chosen as locations for a recent crop of new films Mr Turner (2014) Petworth House and Park, West Sussex, GU28 OAE Written and directed by Mike Leigh, this biographical drama film...
LOUISE MIDGLEY steps back in time with a visit to historic Middlethorpe Hall in York As the mellow brick facade of Middlethorpe Hall came into view I had every expectation that this majestic country pile would be the ideal venue for my husband and I to recharge our...
David and Maureen Wallis have a combined age of 153. Since they retired, the Cheshire couple – he a college lecturer, she a hospital pharmacist – have embarked on holidays that can be only be classified as adventures. No relaxed package tours or luxurious...
Coinciding with the publication of a new novel called After the Honeymoon by Janey Fraser, we take a voyage around the world of passion and discover some great honeymoon destinations for cultured couples You only have to ask yourself whether the young nun Maria would...
