by David Hibbins | Sep 2, 2022 | Latest Travel News
Many times, heading up the A11 through Cambridgeshire, I’ve noticed signs to The Wilbrahams and imagined a hospitable family, ready to welcome weary travellers with a drink and maybe a bed for the night.In reality, the Wilbrahams are two villages, Great and...
by David Hibbins | Sep 2, 2022 | Latest Travel News
BOOK OF THE WEEK SAVING FREUD A SHORT HISTORY OF TOMB-RAIDING: THE EPIC HUNT FOR EGYPT’S TREASURESby Maria Golia(Reaktion £20, 312pp)At the heart of Maria Golia’s compulsively readable book about the history of treasure-seeking and tomb-raiding in...
by David Hibbins | Sep 2, 2022 | Latest Travel News
Who likes their holiday to offer up surprises? Eyebrows were raised among friends when I, a discerningly greedy foodie, let slip that I was off to Tenerife to discover why it has become quite the foodie hotspot – so long as you knew where to look.I wanted to taste...
by David Hibbins | Sep 2, 2022 | Latest Travel News
Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset is perhaps one of rural England’s best known backdrops after it was used in the famous 1973 Hovis advert. But visitors hoping to enjoy one of Britain’s most famous views have been left disappointed as the countryside...
by David Hibbins | Sep 1, 2022 | Latest Travel News
It was in Devon ten years ago that my love affair with Crete began. In an antiquarian bookshop in the village of Dartington, I chanced on Winds Of Crete by an American author who had lived on the island with his Swedish girlfriend for six years in the 1970s, long...
