Britain on the Cheap

Some good news! Betsa’s piece “Kenilworth Castle Plants New Elizabethan Garden,” published on  Suite 101.com, is a finalist in the Best Online Article category in VisitBritain’s Travel Journalism Awards for 2009. Hope you’ll enjoy reading!

Superbreak London has tour packages for the 250th anniversary of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. From $104/£63.50 per person, including the tour and one night’s lodging at the Chiswick Moran hotel. Good on selected dates until Nov. 30

Take a deep breath—it’s UK Peace and Tranquillity Week Sept. 7-13 in Durham. Celebrate the art of relaxation throughout County Durham, which a national tranquillity map compiled by the Campaign to Protect Rural England identified as the fourth-most relaxing place in Britain; North East England was the UK’s most relaxing region. Most of the week’s [...]

Can’t make it to Hidcote Manor Garden, one of England’s great gardens, this year? Glyn Jones, head gardener at Hidcote in Chipping Campden, north Cotswolds, will be discussing “Lawrence Johnston’s Hidcote: A Paradise Enclosed,” along with horticulturalist Ethne Clarke. This Royal Oak Foundation lecture is 2 p.m. Sept. 24 at Filoli in Woodside, Calif. $25 [...]