UK Travel Blog & UK City Guides | Charlie on Travel https://charlieontravel.com/category/europe/uk/ UK Travel Blog Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:24:32 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://charlieontravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-Charlie-on-Travel-Favicon-32x32.png UK Travel Blog & UK City Guides | Charlie on Travel https://charlieontravel.com/category/europe/uk/ 32 32 Best Wine Bars in Brighton — Where We Drink (2026) https://charlieontravel.com/best-wine-bars-brighton/ https://charlieontravel.com/best-wine-bars-brighton/#respond Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:19:32 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=16308 The best wine bars in Brighton are across the city and to a mile west along Church Road and Western Road in Hove. Brighton and Hove sits in the middle of English wine country and it draws exactly the kind of small, opinionated, independent places that take wine seriously. These are the wine bars Luke […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/best-wine-bars-brighton/feed/ 0 Best Independent Coffee Shops in Brighton and Hove (2026) https://charlieontravel.com/coffee-brighton/ https://charlieontravel.com/coffee-brighton/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:40:00 +0000 http://charlieontravel.com/?p=9759 Brighton and Hove’s independent coffee scene is one of the better things about living here. Forget Starbucks, Costa and Nero — you can get your caffeine fix and put your money into a local business at the same time, and in most of these places the person making your flat white knows exactly where the […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/coffee-brighton/feed/ 4 Sussex Vineyards With Restaurants: Where To Eat Among the Vines (2026) https://charlieontravel.com/sussex-vineyards-with-restaurants/ https://charlieontravel.com/sussex-vineyards-with-restaurants/#respond Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:14:26 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=16309 Sussex vineyards with restaurants turn an afternoon tasting into a wonderful day out. Eating at a vineyard is a different proposition to eating anywhere else: the wine list is about eight bottles long, all of it made roughly two hundred metres from your table, and the vine views make the experience. Sussex has more of […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/sussex-vineyards-with-restaurants/feed/ 0 Cuckmere Haven: The Valley Walk That Skips the Seven Sisters Crowds (2026) https://charlieontravel.com/cuckmere-haven-alfriston-walk/ https://charlieontravel.com/cuckmere-haven-alfriston-walk/#respond Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:12:36 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=16323 Everybody who gets the bus out to Seven Sisters Country Park turns right, walks to the sea, and photographs the cliffs. They are spectacular after all. But there’s a hidden gem walk if you turn left. The Alfriston and River Cuckmere circular starts from exactly the same visitor centre, takes in the meandering river, a […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/cuckmere-haven-alfriston-walk/feed/ 0 Vineyard Stays in Sussex: Where To Sleep Among the Vines (2026) https://charlieontravel.com/sussex-vineyard-stays/ https://charlieontravel.com/sussex-vineyard-stays/#respond Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:57:14 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=16310 There’s a particular kind of evening you only get at a vineyard: everyone else has gone home, the tasting room has turned into a bar, and you’re drinking the wine that was made in the building next door with no thought whatsoever about how you’re getting back. That’s the argument for staying over rather than […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/sussex-vineyard-stays/feed/ 0 Seven Sisters Walk: Five Walking Routes, From 1 Hour to 2 Days (2026) https://charlieontravel.com/seven-sisters-walk/ https://charlieontravel.com/seven-sisters-walk/#respond Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:26:56 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=16325 The Seven Sisters is my favourite walk in the whole of the UK. We live in Brighton and the Cuckmere Haven area is our weekend escape when we need a walk to clear our heads. I’ve walked the Seven Sisters many times now, in many different ways, and I love every version of it. It’s […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/seven-sisters-walk/feed/ 0 Vineyards Near Brighton: 12 Sussex Wine Estates Worth Visiting (2026) https://charlieontravel.com/vineyards-near-brighton/ https://charlieontravel.com/vineyards-near-brighton/#respond Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:41:26 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=16280 Sussex is home to some of the best sparkling wine in the world, and most of it is grown within an hour or so of Brighton. The UK wine scene is taking off with warmer weather, and the chalk that runs under the South Downs is the same seam that surfaces in Champagne. The vineyards […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/dorset-travel-guide/feed/ 0 A New Forest Weekend: Things to Do & Where We Stayed https://charlieontravel.com/new-forest/ https://charlieontravel.com/new-forest/#respond Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:52:51 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=15765 The New Forest is our favourite UK weekend escape. Wild ponies in the lanes, woodland made for walking and cycling and a relaxing spa to sink into at the end of the day, all make a weekend away in the New Forest a heavenly slice of respite. We’ve had many weekends away in the New […]

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]]> https://charlieontravel.com/new-forest/feed/ 0 Things to Do in Mumbles & Gower: Our Weekend Guide https://charlieontravel.com/weekend-in-mumbles/ https://charlieontravel.com/weekend-in-mumbles/#respond Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:00:00 +0000 https://charlieontravel.com/?p=13058 Mumbles is a pretty seaside village on the western edge of Swansea Bay, right where the Gower Peninsula begins. It’s known for its Victorian pier and lighthouse, a hilltop medieval castle, a string of independent shops and some of the best ice cream in Wales. Mumbles and the Gower Peninsula offers stunning scenery, friendly locals, […]

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