The Vineyard – a hotel designed for wine lovers
Wine lovers and foodies should book a romantic weekend at The Vineyard hotel, a haven in rural Berkshire advises JANE SLADE Regular as clockwork a buttercup-yellow Ferrari zooms into the car park. The Italian owner, who has a classic car for each season and even a...
How you can benefit from the Green Deal
Thanks to the Government’s Green Deal scheme an Oxfordshire couple has transformed the energy efficiency and appearance of their rural home, while saving almost a third on the cost reports JANE SLADE For Chris Smith, a retired IT manager, (pictured above)...
A visit to Monet’s garden
Celebrated novellist JANEY FRASER travels to Giverny for a long weekend to visit Monet’s garden ‘Remind me,’ said my husband as we boarded the Brittany ferry at Portsmouth. ‘Why are we going all the way to Normandy just to see a garden?’ He had a point. To be...
