I Have a Romantic Thing About Pilchards
1:00 01/01/1970
Pilchards are big, oily sardines. Their oil once lit the lamps of Victorian London. And, packs of salted pilchards kept the people of Cornwall alive through harsh winters in an age when putting food...
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Cornwall’s Ancient Hedgerows
1:00 01/01/1970
An icon of Cornwall — rightly nicknamed “The Garden of England” — is its fearsome hedgerows. For a thousand years, the hardy Cornish people have been picking the rocks off their rugged fields...
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Tropical England
1:00 01/01/1970
While updating my Rick Steves England guidebook, I’ve endured some pretty dreary weather. So dropping into the Eden Project in Cornwall was a delightful chance to enjoy the tropics in England, and...
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Beauty in the Ruins of Tintern Abbey
1:00 01/01/1970
Tintern Abbey is one of most beautiful and evocative sights in all of Britain. And seeing a wedding ceremony inside was icing on the cake. In this clip the harpist strums while the pastor worries...
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Details Paint a Bigger Picture of a Little Cotswold Church
1:00 01/01/1970
Buried in the Cotswold region of west England is the pristine village of Stanton, with what appears to be just another little medieval church. But, by knowing what to look at, you’ll see deeper....
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Chipping Campden Silversmiths Still Hammering Out a Living
1:00 01/01/1970
England’s Cotswolds hide many subtle dimensions of the local culture. A hundred years ago, the delightful village of Chipping Campden hosted the Arts and Crafts Movement (refugees from the...
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Travelers Café
1:00 01/01/1970
High school grads in the Alps, a “monk chat” in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and under the pillow in a Scottish B&B. There’s a lot going on in our Travelers Café where I collect my favorite blogs. At...
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Forget Downton Abbey, Blenheim Palace is #1
1:00 01/01/1970
I nearly skipped Blenheim Palace this year, thinking that on a gorgeous Sunday in July this palace near Oxford would be a mob scene. It was nearly empty. In fact, I booked a special tour of the...
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Oxford vs Cambridge? I’ve Changed My View
1:00 01/01/1970
I enjoy having strong opinions when it comes to hard itinerary decisions and rating various European destinations. And I enjoy reassessing. Twenty years ago I visited Oxford and Cambridge and got it...
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Oxford — Always Five Minutes Late
1:00 01/01/1970
Finally…I learned why that White Rabbit was always late: It’s because Oxford is almost comically full of tradition. One of the preeminent colleges of the 38 that make up the university, Christ...
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