We used to get on planes as though they were buses but, these days, that feels a bit more complicated, expensive and wrong. So what do you do if you long for adventure? Pine for discovery? But you feel grounded - and not in the good way? Well, we have our friend Melinda Stevens on the podcast this week – she’s about as expert as travel experts get. She edited Conde Nast Traveller UK and US for years and she’s just launched Loupe - a new initiative entirely designed to give us a new way to look at the UK. Perhaps there really is a whole world on our doorstep: new openings, rich regions, hotels, shops, villages, oh my. Anything interesting happening on this sceptred isle? She’s in the loop. 

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Loupe Website

LINKS TO ADVENTURE...

Bard

Rhug

The Green Cafe in Ludlow

Bayley & Sage

Settle 

Unyolked

Cowley Manor Experimental

Aynhoe House 

Hungerford Bookshop

Angela Knight Lingerie 

Wylding 

The Fife Arms 

Florence Knight at Sessions Arts Club

Boath House

Three Horseshoes in Batcombe

Tillingham in Rye

Pollyanna Johnson

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