Miles and Miles

Penny wise and pound foolish.(The Anglo-File: Tips and tidbits for travel and for fun)(Brief article)
British Heritage; 1/1/2010; 685 words; ...little sense. Admittedly, there are some popular admissions across the UK that are pricey. Still, to travel thousands of miles and spend considerable money to be in Britain and then balk at paying the cost of admittance to anything makes no sense...

Digging around Caistor Roman town.(Caistor St. Edmund, Norfolk)(Brief article)
British Heritage; 1/1/2010; 508 words; A NEW archaeological dig is underway at Venta Icenorum, the buried Roman town at Caistor St. Edmund, a few miles south of Norwich. First discovered in 1929, the site had a geophysical survey recently that uncovered pre-Roman origins of...

Around the realm this summer: reflections from the Beer Garden.(Our Sceptered Isle)(Column)
British Heritage; 1/1/2010; 1918 words; ...And what we see of London is city par excellance, but our experience is generally confined to the cosmopolitan 24 square miles within the Circle Line. But viewing them from the top of the London Eye is all we generally see of the sprawling residential...

Weighing Anchor for a round Britain cruise: cruising in the UK is booming; the perfect getaway is a treasure on our doorstep.
British Heritage; 1/1/2010; 2683 words; ...BBC series Coast. The distance factor is significant because, though the entire UK coastline measures around 11,000 miles, the relative compactness of the British Isles means that the actual time spent aboard between stops can often be only...

The Morris men of Bampton: dancing with Bells, flowers and the squire.
British Heritage; 1/1/2010; 1651 words; ...marketplace and town center, was ideally situated to observe the first morris dancers of Spring bank holiday. Sixteen miles southwest of Oxford, Bampton is a village of fewer than 2,000 souls. It is, nevertheless, a center for morris dancing...