Feb 14th, 2013 at 10:00AM:
The British TV series "Downton Abbey" has taken America by storm with millions of viewers tuning in each week to watch the lives of the wealthy Crawley family unfold. The glamorous outfits, the decadent dinners, the lavish estate – it's a splendorous life most of us can only dream of.
But take a trip to England and you'll see that sprawling country estates like Downton Abbey are very ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Live A Day In The Life Of 'Downton Abbey' At These English Castles
Feb 14th, 2013 at 10:00AM:
The British TV series "Downton Abbey" has taken America by storm with millions of viewers tuning in each week to watch the lives of the wealthy Crawley family unfold. The glamorous outfits, the decadent dinners, the lavish estate – it's a splendorous life most of us can only dream of.
But take a trip to England and you'll see that sprawling country estates like Downton Abbey are very ...Totnes: South Devon's Alternative Village
Oct 13th, 2012 at 11:00AM:
Totnes, an Elizabethan town in the South West English county of Devon, isn't your average West Country village. Totnes is what is increasingly known as a Transition Town – in fact, it is a model Transition Town.
What is a Transition Town, you ask? A Transition Town is a municipality focused on sustainable local economic growth by encouraging the use of local resources and local ...I Miss The 'Crap' English Weather
Jul 8th, 2012 at 11:00AM: I've just returned from a five-day trip to England, in which we saw the sun for an aggregate of about 15 minutes, but I miss the English weather already. It's supposed to be 102 today in Washington, D.C., and 104 tomorrow. Factoring in the heat index, it will feel like a place well within easy commuting distance of hell.
June went down as the wettest June in the U.K. since rainfall records ...Britain's Heritage Cities are ready for visitors
Feb 11th, 2012 at 8:00AM:
Thanks to the London Olympics, which will open on July 27, and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, 2012 is expected to be a boom year for tourism in Great Britain. In the hopes of capitalizing on this trend, six historic cities have teamed up to get noticed by travelers intent on venturing beyond the English capital.
Bath, Carlisle, Chester, Oxford, Stratford-Upon-Avon, and York, Britain's ...Frommer's reveals top destinations for 2012
Oct 25th, 2011 at 2:00PM:
What destination are you dreaming of for 2012? The staff at Frommer's have just unveiled their list of top travel destinations for the coming year. Included in the list is a little something for everyone: large metropolises, secluded beach towns, colorful riverside villas, and more.
But Frommer's didn't just rely on their expert editors and author's for this years list--they also polled ...British Airways offers North American flight discount to entice US travelers
Oct 5th, 2011 at 3:00PM: Many of us have been yearning to visit our neighbor across the pond since The Royal Wedding (capitalization intended). Great Britain is in celebration mode, there's no doubt. They've capitalized on the trend and embarked upon a four year multi-million dollar marketing campaign to their most valuable overseas market - the US, just in time for 2012, a year when
Britain is hosting the Queen's ...Mystery mound in England turns out to be ancient monument
Jun 2nd, 2011 at 9:00AM:
England's prehistoric landscape has a new addition.
Marlborough Mound in Wiltshire has long been a mystery. The flat-topped cone of earth looks like a smaller version of Silbury Hill, pictured here. The bigger mound was finished around 2300 BC at a time when Neolithic farmers were erecting stone circles such as Stonehenge and Avebury. Now archaeologists have taken samples from Marlborough ...Video of the Day: The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England
Feb 7th, 2011 at 6:30PM:
Have you been to England? What about Great Britain? How about the United Kingdom? Perhaps you just have no clear idea how to use those terms properly. Lest you tick off an Irishman or embarrass yourself at a pub, you may want to take a gander at the video above that quickly and humorously explains just what England, Great Britain and the UK are.
There's no shame in not understanding the ...
Which country loves to work? See who doesn't take vacation time
Aug 8th, 2010 at 4:00PM: A friend of mine asked me a few days ago when I last went on vacation – a real one. I struggled to remember the last time I went on a trip and didn't write or, before that, keep up with what was going on at the office. After stopping and focusing, I remembered a four-day trip I took to Orlando back in late 2005. Even there, I'm not sure that I didn't work, I just don't remember spending time ...Top five cities for taxi drivers (and the bottom end, too)
Aug 7th, 2010 at 5:00PM: When you step into a cab, you never know what you're going to find. The driver could be knowledgeable, helpful, pleasant and safe. Or, he could lead you into a fender-bender in minutes. It's a real roll of the dice, of course, though some cities' cabbies are certainly better than others – at least that's what hotels.com found.
In a study of world's taxi drivers, hotels.com found that ...New British airport to cost more than $100,000 a person
Jul 23rd, 2010 at 11:00AM: Airports aren't cheap, but the new one coming in on St Helena redefines pricey. The British government is getting ready to shell out £300 million (around $460 million) for an airport on the little island in the South Atlantic Ocean. This translates to £75,000 (approximately $115,000) for each of the 4,000 people living there. Right now, you can only get to the island by a ship that ...Brit travel abroad plunged: blame the business travelers
Jul 16th, 2010 at 1:00PM: The homes in Britain must be incredibly cozy – because nobody left them. Travel from the UK fell to its lowest levels since the 1970s, thanks to the hangover from the September 2008 financial crisis. The number of people crossing a border dropped 15 percent year-over-year, with only 58.6 million visits abroad taking place.
As usual, the business traveler is stuck with the blame for this. ...Scammer convicted for trying to sell London Ritz
Jul 8th, 2010 at 1:30PM: Got a few extra bucks to invest? Well, be wary of truck drivers selling hotels. Of course, if I need to tell you this, you should stop dining on paste for lunch.
Not only is the hospitality industry going to be under pressure for the rest of the year, which makes such an investment difficult, but there's always the chance that the deal isn't real. This happened in London, where Anthony Lee hit ...Travel insurance fraud means jail time
Jun 6th, 2010 at 9:00AM: So, is there such a thing as harmless travel insurance claim that isn't exactly accurate? Well, that's a good question for Shaun Taylor.
The Leeds resident was accused of making a whopping £40,000 in claims that affected eight insurance companies over five years. He got caught. Taylor received a suspended six-month prison sentence for 19 travel insurance fraud offenses ... in addition to ...Abercrombie & Kent: Five cinema-cations around the world
May 22nd, 2010 at 8:00AM: You may not have that look that Hollywood craves, but you still want to get close to the action, right? You want to touch the greatness that comes with being splashed across screens from coast to coast. Thanks to the latest concept from luxury travel company Abercrombie & Kent, you don't need talent. The latest "cinema-cation" packages send you to the locations where some of the hottest movies ...Hang with Hardy at writers' workshop weekend in Britain
Mar 7th, 2010 at 1:00PM:
If you're a big fan of Return of the Native or Jude the Obscure, there's a travel package that's perfect for you. Built around the chance to hang with Thomas Hardy's ghost – or, should we say, Thomas Hardy in ghost form? – Summer Lodge Country House Hotel is bringing four writers under its roof for a unique weekend of literary bliss. Guests will be able to learn how to make it as a ...Seven new hotels around the world from Fairmont in 2010
Jan 28th, 2010 at 1:00PM: This year promises to be exciting for fans of the Fairmont. New properties are set to open in London, China and many other cities, each with a distinct style. There's no question that the Fairmont has the art and science of hospitality mastered, so these new properties are going to be exciting to watch.
1. The Savoy
With a design nodding toward Edwardian and Art Deco, the hotel reopens after a ...Winter weather doesn't deter amorous Brits
Jan 8th, 2010 at 3:00PM: Next time you're stuck in a London hotel, with snow falling and few options for getting out on the town, order a little entertainment to your room. It will make you authentically British ... if you take the latest survey by IllicitEncounter.com at face value. The website, which helps married people find a little action on the side, revealed that its traffic increased on Wednesday morning, as a ...Eurostar to suspend Channel train service indefinitely
Dec 21st, 2009 at 2:00PM: Most people think "airlines" when the topic turns to the misery of holiday travel. Well, the trains are getting in on the action now. European railway Eurostar's Channel Tunnel train, which connects England and France, is being shut down indefinitely. It's a natural side-effect of having more than 2,000 passengers trapped inside the tunnel for several hours because of technical glitches.
...Britain says no to alien welcomes
Dec 5th, 2009 at 3:00PM: The visitors traveling the longest distances to Britain will find the phones shut off. Citing the high costs of operation, the British military has shut down its UFO hotline. So, not only will aliens not be welcomed personally, the messages reported via their crop circles will go unreported. This is the end of a half-century commitment in the United Kingdom to helping the nutty find an ...
