Travelling further west along Dorset’s Jurassic coast the road rises to the ‘Golden Cap’ at 191 metres (627 ft) above sea level. Stopping for a moment and looking back east along the coast we can see the semi-isle of Portland on the horizon.
Heading west along the Jurassic coast road from Weymouth, Dorset, the road rises steeply up the hill which rises above the Tropical Gardens at Abbotsbury. Stopping for a moment to look back, there is a breathtaking view that encompasses much of Lyme Bay.
A live 12 hour road trip will air Friday, November 27, at 9 a.m. ET on the Travel Channel. The BBC of the UK has also commissioned a series of programs doing away with commentary, script or drama. This format is called Slow TV. It became…
The tip of the isle of Portland in Dorset, England, is called ‘Portland Bill’ and it is a place that I often visit as it displays dramatic visual day-by-day changes as the weather fronts surge in from the Atlantic.
The much-hated British Air Passenger Duty (APD) which for the past several years has made flying in and out of the UK more expensive than
I first visited this meadow (mede) beside the River Thames in 1966, to visit one of several memorials located there. Back then the grass was far less manicured than I found it more recently and my reason for going was just slightly older than the monument, dedicated to President Kennedy.
Today I take you back close to my home at Weymouth in the county of Dorset on the south coast of England. The 155 miles of coast surrounding Weymouth is a World Heritage site called the ‘Jurassic Coast’.
This is the garden at Haddon Hall, in Derbyshire, England, my favorite house of the many dozens I’ve visited. From our perspective, it benefits greatly from the fact that the house was largely ignored over the centuries by the owner.
This gentleman is the Cerne Giant, perhaps the most famous and controversial hill figure in the UK. Cut into the chalk downlands onto the hill just outside the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset.
Opened in 1717 as a charity school, Bluecoat Chambers in School Lane is the oldest surviving building in central Liverpool, UK. When I’m
Travelling further west along Dorset’s Jurassic coast the road rises to the ‘Golden Cap’ at 191 metres (627 ft) above sea level. Stopping for a moment and looking back east along the coast we can see the semi-isle of Portland on the horizon.
Heading west along the Jurassic coast road from Weymouth, Dorset, the road rises steeply up the hill which rises above the Tropical Gardens at Abbotsbury. Stopping for a moment to look back, there is a breathtaking view that encompasses much of Lyme Bay.
A live 12 hour road trip will air Friday, November 27, at 9 a.m. ET on the Travel Channel. The BBC of the UK has also commissioned a series of programs doing away with commentary, script or drama. This format is called Slow TV. It became…
The tip of the isle of Portland in Dorset, England, is called ‘Portland Bill’ and it is a place that I often visit as it displays dramatic visual day-by-day changes as the weather fronts surge in from the Atlantic.
The much-hated British Air Passenger Duty (APD) which for the past several years has made flying in and out of
I first visited this meadow (mede) beside the River Thames in 1966, to visit one of several memorials located there. Back then the grass was far less manicured than I found it more recently and my reason for going was just slightly older than the monument, dedicated to President Kennedy.
Today I take you back close to my home at Weymouth in the county of Dorset on the south coast of England. The 155 miles of coast surrounding Weymouth is a World Heritage site called the ‘Jurassic Coast’.
This is the garden at Haddon Hall, in Derbyshire, England, my favorite house of the many dozens I’ve visited. From our perspective, it benefits greatly from the fact that the house was largely ignored over the centuries by the owner.
This gentleman is the Cerne Giant, perhaps the most famous and controversial hill figure in the UK. Cut into the chalk downlands onto the hill just outside the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset.
Opened in 1717 as a charity school, Bluecoat Chambers in School Lane is the oldest surviving building in central Liverpool,
