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In Agatha Christie’s Footsteps on the English Riviera – Travel Review
By Kevin Pilley, June 2025 Everyone on the English Riviera will tell you where to see Agatha Christie’s bust. On ... -
Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka and Jetwings St.Andrews Hotel – Travel Review
By Kevin Pilley, May 2025 “This will make you active and lusty!” I took a tiny sip from my bone ... -
Where There’s Muck, There’s Brassicas: A Yorkshire Love Affair with Compost
By Kevin Pilley I don’t know any green-fingered gardeners. But I know a lot of brown- and black-fingered ones. The ... -
The Rise of English Rosé: Best Bottles to Stock This Summer
By Kevin Pilley, May 2025 No wine cellar or fridge in summer should now be without English rosé. You should ... -
Carnations, Pinks and Sweet Williams: A Guide to Growing Dianthus
By Kevin Pilley One of the worst mistakes any gardener can make is thinking that a Laced Monarch is a ... -
The Isles of Scilly & The Hell Bay Hotel – Travel Review
By Kevin Pilley, April 2025 The Isles of Scilly have many attractions, some better known than others: puffins, dwarf pansies, ... -
Dunluce Lodge, Portrush – Review
By Kevin Pilley, April 2025 The compiler of the first English dictionary isn’t quoted very often anymore. When a Samuel ... -
Circumnavigation of Iceland Cruise – Travel Review
By Kevin Pilley, April 2025 Iceland has its own Loch Ness Monster—not a lot of people know that. They call ... -
Galicia’s Lighthouse Way, Spain – Travel Review
By Kevin Pilley, March 2025 The end of the world is not far away. Once you get to northern Spain ... -
The Wye Valley: The UK’s First Tourist Destination – Travel Review
By Kevin Pilley, January 2025 In 1770, the Cumberland-born Rev. William Gilpin, while headmaster of Cheam School in Surrey, undertook ... -
Walking The Amalfi Coast – Travel Review
By Kevin Pilley, January 2025 Having been married a while and known each other much longer, the only time my ... -
Crete: A Trip Back in Time (or How to Holiday with Teenagers) – Travel Review
By Kevin Pilley, September 2024 The sea sparkled and spangled. Even in September, the sun shone hotly and, rustling through ...