Photographer Peter Williams celebrates the peculiar eccentricities and quintessential charms – from helter-skelters to lighthouses, pirates, palmists and Punch and Judy – of this cherished and rapidly changing English landscape
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[ January 11, 2010; ] Izaak Waltons Cottage, Stafford, Stafford
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Robin Nowacki combines culture and cuisine with football on a visit to Barcelona – the capital of the Catalonian region of Spain
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Gloucester is one of those places that nearly everyone has heard of but how many have been there? It is linked with county cricket, rugby and is the burial place of Edward II after his unfortunate incident with a red hot poker. It saw the first coronation of his grandfather Henry III in 1216 and today part of the cathedral is used as Hogwarts in the Harry Potter films.
But what to do on a day trip?
More and more Brits are refusing to leave their precious pets home alone, when they go on their hols. According to recent research, 25 per cent of UK adult pet owners are prepared to pay the same amount as an extra adult on holiday, just to take their pet with them
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal in North Wales has become a UNESCO world heritage site in the latest list to be produced by the organisation. It is the only one in the UK to be designated in this, the latest addition to the world’s most exclusive list of sites that make it almost become a tourism [...]
This is the time of the year when those can claim to be able to forecast where we will holiday come out with their thoughts. And usually the most popular, Spain, France and the UK appear way down the list if it all because it will take a momentous change to remove these three from our lists. So they talk about other places that they claim will see more people will go to. Before we look at some of the forecasts tomorrow why do you choose where we go in the first place?
There are a few reasons why people holiday where they do and it can be summed up as CPCP, cash, preference, convenience and persuasion.
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