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Cider makes life rosy
A meal with a glass of the local speciality? Try the Basque region for traditional hospitality, says Frederic Manby
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Blooming lovely
Once a decade, the Floriade horticultural festival pulls in visitors from all over the world. Belinda Szonert takes a look during a mini break
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Plain sailing
Families can slash the cost of summer holidays in Europe if they let the boat take the strain and travel at off-peak times, say leading ferry companies as they battle to attract travellers deterred by airport hassles and peak season package prices.
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The buds and the bees
Before you squash that bee, think – it’s been estimated that, without it and its billions of little cousins, it would cost the UK £1.8bn every year to hand-pollinate crops.
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Divide and rule
May isn’t just the time to plant and enjoy the flowers of late spring; it’s also a time to clean up, cut back and lift and divide many plants which have already passed their peak.
Your carriage awaits...
David and Lizanne Southworth have created some first class accommodation at Skipwith Station. Sharon Dale reports
Majestic performance
I like dealing with Majestic. For a start, I can believe their price list. Unlike many supermarkets where the prices go up and down on a marketing man’s whim, and where it is dangerous to buy a wine at full price in case it goes to half price next week, Majestic publish a price list which shows all their wines and prices.
Restaurant Review: Cross Scythes, Totley
The Cross Scythes is one of those solid suburban roadside pubs that could easily have gone the way of Sky Sports and microwaved pies. Luckily for the good people of Sheffield (and Derbyshire), someone had a much better idea. Tell you what, why don’t we create a really pleasant environment, put some good beer on and serve interesting, value for money food?
Pub Of The Week: Scarbrough Arms, Tickhill
No, you haven’t spotted a spelling mistake, it really is Scarbrough, and not Scarborough, with an added ‘o’.
Tech Talk: Clouds with a silver lining
MOST of us now have a drawer full of handy USB drives containing random assortments of snapshots from our lives: documents, photos, music, you name it. Which is handy, until you discover that they’re not in the drawer you thought they were, and that in fact you have no idea where they might be. Handier still would be a drive that you didn’t have to put anywhere, because it lived out on the internet; one which you could access at any time, from any computer, phone or tablet.
The roof of England
Jack Blanchard sets out to walk coast-to-coast across Northern England in the footsteps of Roman centurions
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Think or swim
Nick Jenkins takes a dip in Budapest and finds a city that appeals to the melancholy tourist, cake-lover and bargain hunter alike.
Cruise past the queues
The threat of long queues for security checks at some of Britain’s airports could give a last-minute boost to some of the big cruise lines – which are slashing prices drastically.
The dahlia news
Dahlias can be as fiery as an inferno but they’re also big softies – the slightest frost will have them collapsing in a miserable heap.
Country house rescue
Ambitious and entrepreneurial, Valerie Walton Knowles dreamed of owning a big house in the country and it’s no surprise to anyone that she’s is now mistress of Blackwood Hall.
Clash of the tannins
Asparagus contains a whole collection of sulphur-containing flavour components, which add to the taste but these flavours, variously known as mercaptans, thiols and methionine clash horribly with anything tannic giving harsh metallic flavours. And while it is perfectly possible to enjoy your asparagus without wine, it is much better to get around the wine clashes and find something that goes well.
Restaurant Review: City Café Double Tree by Hilton, Leeds
It’s a hard trick to pull off. One of the biggest names in hotels across the world (Hilton) scoops up an existing brand (Mint) at the same time ensuring that the food side of the operation maintains a certain standard that doesn’t just deliver, but does it with panache and above all, quality. I’ve had a couple of cocktails in the stunning sky lounge (unparalleled views over Leeds – if you’ve never been, go) when the Hilton was Mint but didn’t eat in the ground floor restaurant, so can’t make a comparison. But pull it off they have, with considerable adroitness.
Pub Of The Week: Wolds Inn, Huggate
It may be an unusual distinction, but the Wolds Inn in Huggate can legitimately claim to be the first pub that David Hockney ever got drunk in.
Tech Talk: We’re all in this together
IF television this year is remembered for anything other than the Olympics, it will be for YouView, the long-awaited successor to Freeview.
1 commentCoupe takes on German rival with easy access
BMW’S 6 Series Gran Coupe is the marque’s first ever four-door coupe, a response to the very successful Mercedes-Benz CLS.
Vauxhall keeps the wraps on genesis of a new Adam
VAUXHALL’s new small car, so far known only as Junior, now has a name – Adam. At 145 inches long, the three-door, four-seater premium hatchback will challenge lots of other chic urban cars.
Letting is booming, and so are complaints by tenants
Landlords in Yorkshire are falling foul of increasingly complex rental property legislation.
Furnish your home with a few days in foreign fleamarkets
There are few things us Brits love more than sniffing out a bargain. But what if you could combine this love of treasure hunting with our other national passion – the weekend away?
Subtle updates for Audi’s all-roader
AUDI plans an autumn update of its Q5, the five-seat all roader.
Motorhome chief makes a marathon effort for lifesavers
BRAVO: he looked battle weary but motorhome specialist David Elliott has completed a marathon a day for 10 days running from Yeovil Town FC to Huddersfield Town FC to raise money for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance.
Dream of house in country keeps buyers searching for right move
The project to upgrade a 12-mile chunk of the A1 to three lane motorway standards between Dishforth and Leeming looks set to bring more buyers from West Yorkshire to places like Bedale, Northallerton and the surrounding countryside.
Ways to keep your home safe when you do a house swap
As the economic climate forces us to look at alternative holiday arrangements, the popularity of home exchange is growing by 15 per cent each year.
Writers on menu as Dales food fair pulls in the crowds
THOUSANDS of visitors and dozens of exhibitors revelled in the return of spring at the Dales Festival of Food & Drink at Leyburn, “capital” of Wensleydale.
Restaurant Review: Ogino, Beverley
Only a couple of weeks ago, I was bemoaning to friends the lack of a decent East Asian restaurant in the East Riding.
The elixir of youth
I have a weak spot for Guigal’s Côtes du Rhône. This modestly understated wine delivers reliable warm, spicy red fruit aromas, full-bodied flavours and just enough tannin to accompany a mid-week grilled lamb chop or a weekend roast. The 2009 vintage has just been released and, while it costs rather more than an average Côtes du Rhône, the quality of the wine inside the bottle is well worth its £9.99 price tag. The Wine Society has it in stock already and it is starting to make its way into Waitrose stores right now.
Transformation scene
Team work helped Nigel and Janice Oxby complete a stunning renovation of this 1920s house. Heather Dixon reports.
Insider dealing
They sit there, quietly, minding their own business. Trying to please. Whatever the circumstances.
Himalayan garden hits heights
There’s an annual blossoming taking place in a quiet corner of Wensleydale.
Sodden impact
As many as six million Britons could turn the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee holiday at the start of June into a holiday of their own, says The Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA).
Criminally beautiful
Sicily: Hotel hopping provided the perfect way for Peter Woodman to sample the island’s delights.
More Mayo please
County Mayo: There is unspoilt scenery and the traditional warm welcome in this part of Ireland, as Mark Casci discovers.
Evolving with the species
Galapagos: Sarah Marshall discovers today’s appeal of the archipelago Darwin’s scientific works made famous.
Rods which deserve respect go with the grain of tradition
Can somebody please explain to me why it’s not stopped raining for a fortnight, yet we are in a drought? The volume of water that’s recently flowed down the Dales rivers and out to sea would save us from a hosepipe ban for half a century. Am I missing a trick here or are the water companies simply taking the Mickey?
Ways to keep your home safe when you do a house swap
As the economic climate forces us to look at alternative holiday arrangements, the popularity of home exchange is growing by 15 per cent each year.
Dream of house in country keeps buyers searching for right move
The project to upgrade a 12-mile chunk of the A1 to three lane motorway standards between Dishforth and Leeming looks set to bring more buyers from West Yorkshire to places like Bedale, Northallerton and the surrounding countryside.
Italian nous puts the hoods’ car back on road
CHRYSLER’S 300C was the saloon that 21st century hoodlums might have designed – a solid chunk, low roof, narrow windows, huge face – sometimes embellished with a Bentley-esque grille. If you were really tough there was the SRT-8 (as in Street Racing Technology) with a 425 horse power 6.1 litre V8.
VW’s Golf Cabrio GTI is now available to order
GOLF, the Volkswagen that launched thousands of dreams, a car for the wannabe, the could be and the firmly arrived. One of the cars somewhat lost in the fuss over conceptual picture fodder at the Geneva Motor Show in March was this GTI version of the Golf Cabrio. Now you can order one and, if you are lucky, have it on your doorstep in July.
Nissan offer springtime check and care kit
NISSAN is enticing showroom traffic with a £15 springtime check on your car. The 20-point check is only for Nissans – and in return you get a car-care kit retailing at £20.
1 commentLearning how to do the sums over space for living
Show homes are designed to be seductive but the picture perfect interiors can you leave you blind to reality.
Academic’s oasis of calm in one of Yorkshire’s most beautiful valleys
Three Tuns Cottage, Low Mill, Farndale Price: £425,000 Contact: Savills, York, tel: 01904 617820, www.savills.co.uk
Families never get to choose just what makes choice location
We like to think that we live in a democracy. We revere universal suffrage. Through elections, we like to think that we have a say in the running of our country but when it comes to choosing a new home, many of us have very little say or no say at all. Sometimes, one member of a household bluntly announces that he/she has just seen the “perfect” home and has bought it without anyone else having a look in.
Standing up a friend for night out at a bar opening is shallow
Dear Alex, next week I had a long-standing plan with an old friend, but now I’ve been offered a guest pass to a new bar opening with two work colleagues. I really want to go and would hate to miss out on it, but feel guilty about letting my friend down, even though many have gazumped me in the past. What should I do?
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