After acquiring a fascination with the dubious 1980s haircut while travelling around Eastern Europe, Simon Varwell discovered a village in Albania called Mullet, and a mission was born.From Albanian slums to the windswept landscapes of Ireland's County Mayo, the mission took him across the world in search of obscure locations – eventually creating an inadvertent media storm when the mullet hunting hit the big time Down Under in Australia.Up The Creek Without a Mullet was or...

Simon Varwell is a man on a mission. Albeit a ridiculous one: to visit various places in the world with the word “mullet” in their name. The Return of the Mullet Hunter charts his continuing global mission, and includes his travels in England, Canada, New Zealand and the USA as he hunts down obscure backwaters linked together only by their names.  It’s a journey that takes him from the quiet English countryside to the Californian desert via dull suburbs and uninhabited is...

After years travelling by train between Inverness and Edinburgh, Simon Varwell realised that he knew very little about the places he would merely pass through, and to which he would pay no attention as they rushed by in a train window blur. So over the course of six days in 2012, he travelled the line and stopped at all twenty-three stations. It was a trip that led him to the unknown, the beautiful, the isolated, the depressingly mundane, the run-down, and the haunting. Fro...

The year was 1665 when the plague swept through London. Daniel Defoe was only five at the time but 60 years later relied on his memories as well as those of his uncles and a collection of their journals to create this vivid chronicle of the devastating epidemic, which claimed over 97,000 lives. The ringing of a bell and the chilling call of “Bring out your dead!” from the collector of plague victims, still fills readers centuries later with terror as Defoe traces the devas...

The delightful tale of a young couple who in the late 1970s, on impulse, became the new landlords of the most remote, bleak and lonely pub - The Tan Hill Inn - located in the bleak landscape of the Yorkshire Dales. Having seen an article in the newspaper about the pub's search for a new manager, they arrived just three weeks later as the new landlords of the The Tan Hill Inn. It is a wild, wind-swept place, set alone in a sea of peat bog and heather moorland that stretches unbroken as far ...

Join the Queen at a £170,000 dinner. Discover which guest once wanted to rent an elephant and which guests are no longer welcome. Meet the men who sneak ladies up to their rooms, and the lady who ditches her boyfriends at the front door. Take a ringside seat at the battle over £30,000 of truffles.There are perhaps only a dozen hotels like this one anywhere in the world. There are perhaps only a dozen places that can daily create the illusion that is The Hotel."Tantalizing g...

  Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Liverpool in Merseyside, England, famed for its football teams, The Beatles and buzzing nightlife. It lies within The Historic County Boundaries of Lancashire. Liverpool is a city with great cultural heritage and was awarded the title of European Capital of Culture 2008, with the famous Pier Head Waterfront being a UNESCO World Heritage site [2] since 2004. Liverpool is home to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestr...

Magic, to a sailor, is harnessing the wind – getting something for nothing – the surprise of a gust, the boon of a side-wind and the trial of a headwind and best of all, the moment when a change in direction means turning away from the head seas and wind and spray in silence and warmth. In 1969, man flew to the moon and sailed around the world solo. In 2009, sailor and Londoner Steffan Meyric Hughes thought he’d try something a little closer to home, becoming the first to sail and row arou...

The bustling metropolis of London is home to scores of unusual and unique places and spaces. In this feast of peculiarities, author David Long guides you off the beaten path and allows you under the skin of the hidden city that is modern-day London, revealing a new side to the capital you thought you knew.

Children naturally like to hear about other children. They can identify with another child wherever the other kid happens to live. This allows them to imagine themselves in another country when they read about others. The children can see and experience famous places, exotic food and foreign practices. In other words, it gives them all the excitement of travel without the expense of actually hopping on a plane or train.

Welcome to LondonLondon, one of the great cities of the world, combines the best of the old and the best of the new; Castles are still in use, they still change the Guard at Buckingham Palace, and you can still find people feeding pigeons in the afternoons at Trafalgar Square. Yet, you can always find a new, dynamic London just around the corner.Today, London is the center for active, entrepreneurial Europe. The bars are flooded with people, the restaurant culture is growin...

Discover the wild beauty of the Isles of Scilly, a remote Atlantic archipelago off the coast of Cornwall where turquoise seas, white-sand beaches and rugged granite headlands create some of the most distinctive coastal scenery in Britain. With a mild climate, abundant wildlife and peaceful island landscapes, the Isles of Scilly offer exceptional low-level walking across five inhabited islands, where coastal paths, historic sites and hidden coves are never far away....