As UK travel bloggers, the UK is where we spend most of our time. We’re based in Brighton, a beach town directly south of London. We love UK travel: adventuring along the UK coast, escaping into the countryside and exploring the best of the UK’s cities. You can find all our UK travel blogs here.
Devon is a place close to our hearts because it’s the county where Luke and I first met. For those of you who don’t know, we met at Exeter University and we’ve been together ever since. That’s why we wanted to share the best romantic things to do in Devon with you!
Northumberland is high on our list of places to visit now we’re back living in the UK. We’ve been excitedly researching the best destinations in Northumberland for nature, hiking, wildlife spotting and history. Here are our top five Northumberland destinations for travellers to visit.
Cornwall is a county in the southwest of England that’s famous for its spectacular coastline and its unusually good weather. As you might imagine, the two above facts combine to make Cornwall an exceedingly popular destination for English people looking to enjoy a no-fly holiday! But is it worth the hype? Absolutely! Read on to discover four unmissable reasons to visit Cornwall.
Zero waste living and reducing plastic waste is always on our mind. We’ve tried hard to cut down our plastic use during our travels over the years. Now we’re learning more and more about the zero waste lifestyle whilst living in the UK. We’ve just bought our first apartment in Brighton and decided that we want to have a zero waste home here.
Brighton’s independent coffee scene is buzzing. Forget Starbucks, Costa, Nero and those other chain coffee shops. You can get your caffeine fix and support local Brighton coffee businesses by ordering your americano to go at one of these great independent Brighton coffee shops. In these cafes, you can expect unique styles and decor, artisan roasted coffee and baristas who know how to make lattes look freaking great.
I used to be a fair weather hiker. I only wanted to hike when I knew it wouldn’t rain or get too cold, when I knew I wouldn’t get too muddy, when I knew I’d be able to get a good view from where I was headed.
All that changed when I started travelling. I realised that if you wait for the perfect hiking conditions, you’ll never go hiking at all. When you’re travelling, you only have a limited time in each place and you have to make that time count.
This January, we took up a 31-day vegan travel challenge as part of Veganuary. We kicked off our vegan challenge in Luke’s home town of Brighton before travelling vegan in Bulgaria and then Macedonia.
True to our word, we didn’t change our travel plans to fit in with our new vegan lifestyle, but instead took unplanned trips to wherever we chose. While Bulgaria and Macedonia certainly aren’t the most vegan friendly countries in the world, we learned a lot from our vegan travel experiences there.
We’re one week into our 31-day vegan travel challenge as part of Veganuary. We’ve had ups and downs, we’ve experimented with new foods, we’ve stocked up on 2kg of nuts and we’ve raided Brighton‘s most delicious vegan food joints. Next we’re going to be travelling vegan in Bulgaria.
With my family’s new home base being in Dorset, I set out on a hunt for delicious vegetarian and vegan cafes in and around Bournemouth. The area isn’t exactly known as a vegetarian and vegan scene compared to more alternative UK cities like Brighton and Liverpool. But there are some real veggie-friendly gems to be found.
I never got round to sharing my birthday weekend from back in August. Now that autumn has well and truly overtaken in England, I’m really missing the long summer days that we had. That’s not to say that autumn here isn’t incredibly beautiful, but everyone likes the sunshine right?
There was no exotic destination for my birthday this year – but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t any travel for me at all! Instead of just spending the weekend at home, Luke and I dug out my family’s tipi which hadn’t been used for years and headed just half hour away from the house to the Dorset coastline.
In England, it’s not unusual to take a family holiday to the same familiar seaside town, often just the closest one to where you live, or one of the really popular ones that actually have sand rather than pebbles.
Every year you pack up the car with too much stuff and a bag of Starburst. You go, you build sandcastles on the beach, eat Mr Whippy ice creams, probably eat fish and chips too, walk along the pier and play on some penny machines in an arcade. That’s what family holidays were like for me when I was growing up.
Like most people in the UK, I have a lot of nostalgia about seaside holidays.
I can’t say that I’ve ever seen a more rugged coastline than in the south of England. The Jurassic Coast, which stretches over 95 miles between East Devon and my new home county of Dorset, is characterised by it’s grassy cliff tops, sheer drops of jagged white rock cliff sides and spectacular geology.
I first walked along the Jurassic coast when I was much younger. Back then, I was enchanted by Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door because they were just how I imagined many places from fantasy novels to be. All those memories washed over me again when I recently hiked along the coastline.
Even after travelling across different continents, I still think that the short two and a half mile walk between Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door is one of the most beautiful walks in the world.
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