Glastonbury may be the biggie but there are at least 300 summer music festivals in the UK and Ireland. Loads of them involve camping; most of them involve round the ... Read More

The Summer Solstice, the longest day (or the shortest night, depending upon your point of view) in the Northern Hemisphere, is less than a month away and it's a very ... Read More

Every year, the Marine Conservation Society (MCS), a UK charity for the protection of the marine environment and its wildlife, rates the quality of hundreds of beaches all around the ... Read More

The hidden treasures you can find on the Internet never cease to surprise me. You can visit a site over and over again; one day you click a different button ... Read More

Chelsea is by no means the only show around and the English don't have a monopoly on top gardening shows. Gardening Scotland, at the end of May in Edinburgh, has, ... Read More

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show has achieved its great importance in the UK because the British are such great fans of gardening and plant collecting. Some of the most interesting ... Read More

The RHS Chelsea Flower Show opens tomorrow at the Chelsea Royal Hospital. Billing itself as "The ultimate event in the gardening calendar", Chelsea attracts keen gardeners from all over ... Read More

If, like most restaurant patrons, you assume that tips and service charges go to your waiter, you might be surprised to learn that has not always been the case. ... Read More

The monks of Abbotsbury followed that advice in the early Middle Ages and the 1,000 swans they found when they settled at the head of The Fleet in Dorset returned ... Read More

Stay in a UK university dorm room during school vacations and you'll be following in the footsteps - or should I say dream time - of some of history's highest ... Read More

If you imagine that music festivals in England are something new, it's time to take another look. The festival choirs of Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester cathedrals have been celebrating ... Read More

Hereford Cathedral is a bit of a dark horse it seems. Besides the usual cathedral treasures, it is home of one of the oldest existing handwritten copies of the Magna ... Read More

Her Majesty the Queen has approved the appointment of the first Poet Laureate of the 21st century and the first woman to ever take on the role. Poet and playwright Carol ... Read More

If, like the security guard in the 2006 move "Night at the Museum", you've wondered about what goes on after dark in these big, spooky places, find out during Museums ... Read More