Travel Guide:england
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The Hippest City in England, According to Lonely Planet
Manchester, UK, earned a spot on Lonely Planet’s list of top ten cities you have to visit in 2016. Kotor, Montenegro, earned the No. 1 ranking on a roundup that included Quito, Dublin, Mumbai…and Manchester? Slotted at a respectable No. 8, the northern English city outranked Nashville and even Rome. I first “discovered” Manchester when I started binge-watching Queer as Folk. It felt like a rite of passage after coming out, a way to learn about the new queer life I soon found myself actively e
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How to Travel Like a Royal in London
London was just voted the 2015 Top Tourist Destination by MasterCard’s Global Destination Cities Index. Home to Britain’s most expensive property in terms of price per square foot, the London neighborhood of Mayfair is one of the U.K.’s most exclusive areas to live, work, and visit. Residential real estate there goes for over £5000 ($7600) per square foot and the neighborhood has been a sort after location for the world’s richest looking to call London home.
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The Coastal Scenery of a New British Show Is Hot With Tourists
When PBS airs the first episode of the British drama Poldark this Sunday, you will be assured of an hour’s worth of pure eye candy. You may think you are looking at the Aegean, so turquoise is the sea, but in fact it’s Cornwall, in the very toe of England just about five hours southwest of London — a separate tectonic plate that smashed up into English shores 290 million years ago, bringing with it unique flora and fauna, a micro-climate and 400 miles of spectacular, unspoiled coastline. Brits
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I Want to Suck Your Blood (Cocktail) in Whitby, England
Long a vacation spot for Brits, it has also historically given inspiration to writers like Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, and Bram Stoker — who based one of the most famous scenes from Dracula in the town. This is Whitby. In the book, Dracula (the name itself taken from a name Stoker found in the Whitby public library) arrives in England on the ship Demeter, which crashes into the port.
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WATCH: You Can Go Home Again: A Walk Down Memory Lane in England
Then my dad’s thesis was accepted and he got his degree, along with two job offers: one from the University of Leeds … and another from Riyadh University in Saudi Arabia. Had he chosen the job in Leeds, I most likely would have grown up with a British accent in that very house, and my entire life would have been very different.
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On a Gender Bender: One Woman's Night in London as a Man
Thanks to RuPaul and his amazing Drag Race, most people now know what a drag queen is — but there’s a new underground scene popping up in London that’s threatening to steal the crown … the drag king movement. Just as drag queens are men with women’s clothing and makeup, drag kings are women … cross-dressing as men. In London the scene took off last year when, for the first time ever, a (biological) woman won the popular Drag Idol UK contest.
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8 Stunning U.K. Estates That Are Even Better Than Downton Abbey
It hasn’t starred in Downton Abbey, but Blenheim Palace has appeared in a Harry Potter film, plus others. (Courtesy: Blenheim Palace)
