Life in Birmingham is pretty sweet, but it’s nice to get away every once in a while. Here, we share relaxing countryside excursions, brilliant day trips, and the best places to visit in the UK, plus some exciting international travel inspiration!
All I’ve ever wanted is to live in a treehouse. Just like Bart from The Simpsons, or Finn & Jake from Adventure Time, or even the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi. Having fun in the canopy, looking down on...
There are a million reasons to visit Lichfield. The ‘most English place in the country’ is a peaceful weekend retreat that boasts its own arts festival, Michelin-starred restaurant and medieval cathedral....
Provence's world-renowned lavender fields will turn the south of France into a carpet of purple haze this summer. You don’t need to drive that far just to experience something like it, though. An hour from...
We've got some good news for holidaymakers travelling with Jet2, EasyJet and TUI this year - the three airlines have officially announced there will be no surcharges due to the rising fuel costs. On Frida...
In this AI-powered, social media-hungry world, full of noisy, busy crowds, chasing mile-a-minute trends, sometimes you just want to scream: ‘Stop!’ I want to go back to a time when life was quieter, slowe...
You won’t believe me, but these idyllic Italian-style gardens were once home to an amusement park and motor rally races. Going back to the 1800s, Trentham Estate boasted the most beautiful grounds, but by...
The lengths we will go to for love never cease to amaze. When Colonel Harry Clive set about building his 12-acre, hillside garden in Staffordshire, it wasn’t for any reason other than to provide his wife D...
We all want to live in a house, a very big house in the country, but there are plenty of reasons why most of us don’t. Cost is a huge one. So is a lack of transport. Of decent shops. Or any kind of infras...
Birmingham is a city revving with petrol-heads, moto-enthusiasts, and car-nuts. Nothing quite beats hopping behind the wheel and going for a long drive. Unless you’re a big fan of interchanges, you will ha...
While the concept of two towns, one low, one high, sharing a name and separated only by a river, sounds like the set-up for a fable about how we’re all equal despite our differences, it’s actually a very...