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Visiting the Pitlochry Salmon Ladder: practical guide for first-timers

The Pitlochry Dam Visitor Centre is a free visitor attraction operated by SSE (Scottish and Southern Energy) at Armoury Road, Pitlochry, Perthshire, combining an exhibition about the Pitlochry hydroelectric dam with displays about the adjacent Pitlochry Fish Ladder — one of Scotland's best-known engineered salmon…

Visiting Preston Manor, Brighton: practical guide for first-time visitors

Preston Manor is an Edwardian country house in the Preston Park area of Brighton, Sussex, set in walled gardens two miles north of the seafront. This guide was updated in May 2026. The single most important update for 2026: the manor reopened in April 2025…

Visiting Eagle Heights Wildlife Foundation, Kent: practical guide for first-time visitors

Eagle Heights Wildlife Foundation is a bird of prey centre and wildlife sanctuary in the village of Eynsford, Kent, perched above the Darent Valley near Junction 3 of the M25. It celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2026 — a year that has already seen significant…

Monks, mountains and Muscat: a wine and olive oil tour through the hills above Chania

Crete has been making wine since the Minoan era — a history of roughly 4,000 years. The island grows its own distinctive grape varieties, many found nowhere else in the world. The hilly Kissamos region west of Chania is one of its core wine-producing areas,…

The island that marble built: a full-day bus tour of inland Naxos

Naxos is the largest island in the Cyclades — bigger than Mykonos and Santorini combined. Most visitors spend their time on its western beaches and never venture inland. That's a genuine loss. The island's interior holds ancient temples, marble-paved mountain villages and an unfinished kouros…

Exploring Eureka Springs by golf cart

Eureka Springs, Arkansas, exists because of a rumour. In the late 1870s, word spread that the natural springs tucked into these Ozark Mountain hollows could cure almost anything — blindness, paralysis, skin disease, you name it. By 1881, so many people had arrived to test…

The Big Melt at the Magna Science Adventure Centre in Rotherham.

Magna Science Adventure Centre, Rotherham: Family travel review with prices and tips

Near the M1 in Rotherham, the Magna Science Adventure Centre turns a former steelworks into a child-friendly place of hands-on, interactive learning. Why visit the Magna Science Adventure Centre? Magna is an audacious take on a bog-standard science museum. There are more than 100 hands-on…

Carcassonne Castle in Carcassonne, France.

Carcassonne Castle, France: Must-know tips, parking, prices & hours

Carcassonne Castle — officially the Château Comtal and its double ring of ramparts — is a UNESCO World Heritage-listed medieval fortress. It's managed by the Centre des Monuments Nationaux within the walled city of Carcassonne in southern France. This guide was updated in May 2026.…

Visiting ARK Wildlife Park, Lincolnshire: practical guide for first-time visitors

ARK Wildlife Park is an exotic animal rescue sanctuary and dinosaur park in the village of Stickney, Lincolnshire, near Boston. It operates as a working rescue centre open to the public as a family-friendly zoo, combining rescued wildcats, primates, and nocturnal animals with the largest…

National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham: Ticket prices, hours, parking and tips

The National Motorcycle Museum is the world's largest collection of British motorcycles, located at Junction 6 of the M42 motorway near Solihull, just two miles from Birmingham Airport. This guide was updated in May 2026: One key update that many guides overlook: the museum now…