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"In America, there are two classes of travel: first class, and with children."
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This is an archive of Snippets which have been published on the front page.
The Snippets slot is available to BGTW members who want to highlight a travel destination or experience that they haven't been able to include in a commissioned work or haven't found a suitable platform for.
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Burton Agnes Hall, by Jenny Woolf |
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Snippet of the week: Burton Agnes Hall, Yorkshire
Our weekly feature on a favourite place Guild members have found on their travels. Jenny Woolf describes.
 Burton Agnes Hall, Driffield, Yorkshire, is a truly welcoming stately home.
There are no roped-off rooms, no intimidating formality Its interiors are
fascinating and quirky, with a vast carved hall screen crammed with
Elizabethan imagery, a stunning Chinese room and new and old art everywhere.
An airy attic reading-room even offers visitors relaxing armchairs and art
books.
Award-winning gardens mix veg, herbs, topiary and flowers in a glorious yet
highly organised conglomeration. There's a super teashop with local produce,
and even a ghost, who haunts the house because she cannot bear to leave. I
entirely sympathise. For more, see www.burton-agnes.co.uk
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The skipper wasn't optimistic about seeing a humpback. We were too late in the season, he reckoned. With the approach of the wet season in the Buccaneer Archipelago, the air was sticky and the water a "cool" 29C. Then, on the horizon, a faint splutter. With the twin-engine in full throttle, we sped in pursuit. For minutes, nothing. Then a gleaming black-and-white humpback torpedoed out of the water, landing on its back with a loud smack. There is nothing like a close encounter with a 35-ton whale for an intoxicating high.
Claire Scobie The Buccaneer Archipelago The Daily Telegraph, 4 April 2008
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