Whilst some people enjoy a glass of wine with the cheese board, others, like Anna Hyman, really don’t like the combination. However, on a visit to Antwerp and the Pas de Calais she found that a glass of beer with a platter of cheese was exactly right. I love cheese but I really dislike drinking […]
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Beer and Cheese
Whilst some people enjoy a glass of wine with the cheese board, others, like Anna Hyman, really don’t like the combination. However, on a visit to Antwerp and the Pas de Calais she found that a glass of beer with a platter of cheese was exactly right. I love cheese but I really dislike drinking […]
In Search of Donatello
Renaissance Florence and medieval Siena are two of Mary Bunning’s favourite Italian cities. She also has a passion for the works of the sculptor Donatello. In this article she visits Florence. Even though I had been to Florence several times the visits had been short and the queues for attractions such as the Uffizi Palace […]


The most spectacular feature of Britain’s canal network is surely the 1007-feet long Pontcysyllte Aqueduct which takes the Llangollen Canal over the River Dee near Chirk. Narrowboats cross it in a metal trough which has a towpath on one side and a sheer 126 feet drop on the other. No matter how many times you […]
Werder and its Produce




Every time Anna Hyman visits the Pas-de-Calais region of France she is astonished at how much there is to see and do, and her most recent short break was no exception. An Art Gallery with a difference This art gallery was not what I had expected. I am more used to ones where visitors gaze […]
