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The annual World Backyard Buskers Festival in Christchurch, New Zealand attracts the most weird and wonderful street performers from around the globe.
Holiday Goddess Editor Tamara Pitelen’s cautionary tale on lessening the pain of luggage gone astray.
Emma Killick guides a foodie’s tour of Toulouse.
Many heading to the south of France bypass the cities, but if you’re arriving by plane or train or picking up a hire car, I definitely recommend at least a quick stop in Toulouse.
Cult British Notebooks and Diaries
Smythson produces visiting cards, writing paper and wedding invitations for the great and the good.
Much-loved painter Beryl Cook drank at The Dolphin in Plymouth and also immortalised the place, in one of her chunky-women art works.
An Inspector Morse Approved Pub
Inspector Morse writer Colin Dexter drinks here, appropriately enough with a ghost.
The Ultimate Summer Pub?
A huge terrace with umbrellas to shield you from the relentless, scorching English sun (ha!)
Jimi Hendrix Drank Here
Rumour has it that Jimi Hendrix wrote Stone Free at the Free Trade Inn in Newcastle upon Tyne.
A Wine Tasting Pub
You can buy a bottle of wine at the shop at The Vine Tree in Norton, drink it in the pub, and take the remainder home if you like.
The Perfect English Pub?
The Lord Poulett Arms in Hinton St George is possibly the perfect English pub.
C.S. Lewis Drank Here
Fans of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe should have at least one glass of wine in Lewis’s honour at The Black Boy Inn.
Ireland’s Oldest Pub
Grace Neill’s Bar (no apostrophe, this is Ireland) is the country’s oldest pub dating from 1611.