Donald Trump is being pulled along by three Mexicans. A throng of burning crosses carve a path through the night. Flaming torch bearers chanting strange incantations pass by too close for comfort. Is this a scene from The Wicker Man? Have I stumbled onto a movie set or perhaps I’m simply hallucinating. Such thoughts are not out of place, because this is the annual Lewes Bonfire Night Parade, it is very real and I am right in the middle of it.
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Lewes Bonfire Night Parade
21/11/2016 .Malton Food Tour in North Yorkshire
06/09/2016 .Stuart Forster heads to Malton in North Yorkshire to participate in the inaugural Malton Food Tour. A gentleman wearing a cream coloured Malton Cookery School apron greets me with a cheery smile at the entrance to the Talbot Hotel. “I hope you’re hungry,” says Tom Naylor-Leyland, welcoming me onto the first Malton Food Tour.
Read the full story hereDrayton Manor Theme Park
26/08/2016 .Would all the excitement of Drayton Manor Theme Park and Thomas Land prove to be far too much fun for one family day out? TripReporter sends the Wallace family of two adults and two kids to give us a thorough and exhausting testing. Here is their verdict on Drayton Manor Theme Park
Read the full story herePaultons Park Family Fun
06/07/2016 .Would the lure of Peppa Pig World and the new Lost Kingdom Dinosaur theme park prove to be far too much fun for one family day out at Paultons Park? TripReporter sent the Wallace family of two adults and two kids to give us a thorough and exhausting testing. Here is their Paultons Park family fun diary
Read the full story hereEdinburgh Festivals anyone?
05/07/2016 .Heading up to any Edinburgh festivals in 2016? Anna Smith shares fresh finds and hidden gems for this years’ Edinburgh festival season.
Read the full story hereShetland. Islands with Latitude
02/06/2016 .In 1999, when I first visited Shetland, I was presented with a certificate confirming that I had been farther north than 60°; it was a marketing ploy, but I was pleased to receive it – and still have it. Latitude, clearly, was anything but a geographical platitude to these people of the far north of Britain, closer, as they are, to the Arctic Circle than they are to London, and on a level with Hudson Bay in Canada, St Petersburg in Russia, Stockholm in Sweden and Helsinki in Finland.
Read the full story here24 hours in Newcastle
01/05/2016 .In 2014, The Guardian readers voted Newcastle best city-break destination. I had 24 hours in Newcastle to find out why, but with so much to explore, would 24 hours in Newcastle be enough?
Read the full story hereStandon Calling Festival. A Fantastic Family Favourite.
21/08/2015 .Anna Smith reports back on the Standon Calling Festival in deepest Hertfordshire
Read the full story hereBrilliant Edinburgh festivals and other fancies
09/07/2015 .When my friends say they’re going to the ‘Edinburgh Festival’ I’m tempted to ask – which one? These days there’s a whole host of them year round – 12, in fact, from the Jazz and Blues fest to the Storytelling to the famous Fringe.
Read the full story hereCaledonian Sleeper. Glasgow to London.
28/04/2015 .It’s all change for the Caledonian Sleeper that connects London Euston overnight with five Scottish termini: Edinburgh, Glasgow for the lowland sleeper and Fort William, Aberdeen, Inverness for the Highland sleeper.
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