I’ve always had a soft spot for Brighton. It’s a lively place on the South coast with good shopping and a vibrant nighlife. The Seabreeze hotel is only a couple of minutes walk from the beach in the Kemptown area. It’s a small hotel – probably what you’d call boutique I guess – but very clean and with friendly staff and some good rates on their website (Brighton Seabreeze Hotel). It says it has 4stars and a Silver award which only 10% of hotels in the UK are awarded, so it can’t be that bad! …
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We had mixed feelings about the Esplanade Hotel in Paignton. we were blessed with sunny weather and overall enjoyed our 4 day break. The staff were helpful and friendly and for what we paid the food was good. The entertainment was acceptable. The biggest bugbear was the rooms which was small and were probably last decorated about 20 days. The hotel certainly needed modernisation and redecoration and but this was a half board 4 day break [package which was good value. Televisions hotel inspector could do with going in to upgrade the rooms which quite frankly were pretty awful, but did have a television and kettle. The bathroom was microscopic. One visit was a suprise and experince but unless it is modernised we would not return again.
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Tony Wheeler founder of Lonely Planet visits the South of Britain. While not very far in proximity Bath and Bristol are two very distinct cities. While Bath exudes old fashioned, historical, gentle surrounds and the famous tourist attracting Roman Baths, Bristol reveals a more gritty, industrial history where famous engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel carried out most of his ingenious work there.
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Tony Wheeler, founder of Lonely Planet was born in England and rediscovers the ‘forgotten North’ of England where he visits Leeds – the knightsbridge of the north, Liverpool – the 2008 European capital of culture, and Manchester, the city of history, music, arts and football.
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This international collaboration would not have been possible without the wonderful generosity of Anthony Padbury his fiancee Dominika and the terrific people at the Goathland website Andy.
Thank You so much it was a great deal of fun for me to do this small clip from across the pond and having been a child before there were even digital watches makes it magical.
Dan
Goathland is a village in the North York Moors national park England. It is due north of Pickering off the A169 to Whitby It is surrounded by beautiful scenery and has the advantage of having a station on the North Yorkshire Moors steam railway line North Yorkshire Moors Railway
It is a private charitable trust with a number of paid staff but mostly operated by volunteers, running nearly all the year including at Christmas It carries upwards of 250000 passengers a year
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