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Bosworth Battlefield

Being an avid traveller I’ve been to some great and exciting Countries. When you have been on the road a while you become a little jaded. Once you seen one waterfall you feel like you’ve pretty much seen them all and the same goes for Battlefields. They tend Continue Reading →

Mersea Island – The Forgotten Beach?

Bank Holiday Monday in the UK and 4 boys to entertain….. We took a quick peak at the tide times and drove to Mersea Island. You have to check the tide before setting off as to get to Mersea Island you have to cross a road that connects the Island to the main Continue Reading →

Strawberries and Cream Cupcakes

There are some food combinations that are so quintessentially English that they conjure up an image the minute they are uttered. Strawberries and cream is one such combination. For me, strawberries and cream are synonymous with a perfect English summer’s Continue Reading →

The Heart of Cark-ness

Please welcome a new guest blogger to Smitten, Gareth Williams. Gareth is an Englishman living in Perth, Western Australia with his mixed nationality family. Born and raised in Yorkshire he has strong ties to the Lake District and to London. Living abroad, Gareth Continue Reading →

Great British Literature – Bleak House

I’m happy to introduce you to a new guest blogger, Gareth Watkins, who describes himself as ” a sometime writer who spends far too much time reading.” Gareth has kindly agreed to take up the challenge of schooling us on some great works in British Continue Reading →

Coventry Cathedral

I have to be honest and say that Coventry is not one of the most exciting places in the world that you can ever visit! It was probably best known for manufacturing the first British motor car as well as being the car making capital of England until very recently. Continue Reading →

There’s More to England than London

“Limey” is an English expat in her mid- 20s who found herself in Norman, OK, in 2003 where she obtained a journalism degree. After graduation, she worked in Oklahoma for a year before moving to Boston, MA, for her husband to attend medical school. In Boston Continue Reading →

Bakewell and Chatsworth

Bakewell & Chatsworth Bakewell is a lovely village set in the Heart of the Peak District National Park, a beautiful place in Derbyshire and dating back to the Saxon times. The Church dates back to 920 a.d although much of the ‘modern’ building dates from Continue Reading →

How to Make Calls in the UK

A holiday is not only a change of scenery and break from the 9-5 but also for many of us a break from the high-tech of modern living – goodbye to being a slave to our TV, computers and social networks and above all cell phones. However with cell phones being Continue Reading →

Melton Mowbray

I would like to introduce you to Emma from Adventures of an English Mum. She’ll be serving as a columnist here, covering the East Midlands region of England. I have enjoyed reading her blog and I’m very pleased for her to be writing here. Welcome Emma! Melton Continue Reading →