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20th March, 2025
Englishness - Manners and Monarchy! Here at the Carter Company, we specialise in luxury cycling and walking holidays around the UK. Although we do plenty of tours to the stunning Scottish Highlands or through wonderful Wales, this week is English Tourism Week, and to mark it…
4th March, 2025
This year marks the 250th birthday of Jane Austen (1775-1817), the novelist probably best known for Pride and Prejudice. Today, she is closely associated with Bath, where she lived for five years in the early-19th century. Indeed, the Jane Austen Centre celebrates her as ‘Bath’s…
5th December, 2022
Winter sun in Provence is a new 5 night gentle walking tour especially designed for the winter months in Provence with its mild temperatures and blue skies lighting up the enchanting scene. Stays are in buzzy locations – St Remy, the heart of Van Gogh’s landscapes in the Alpilles…
18th March, 2021
As we sputter on through what we hope are the final days of lockdown in Britain we are all looking forward to a more normal life and to taking trips and holidays that invigorate and restore us. We hope that the projected May 17 date for the opening of hotels in Britain will mark…
5th March, 2021
Here is a county well worthy of a spotlight! We love it for its unspoilt coast with a slightly old fashioned air, the mix of reed beds, sandy heaths, woodland and sinuous estuaries, a slower pace of life, timbered buildings, arty finds and a landscape enabling marvellous flat…