March 2014

Dateline

London

Shipshape Historic Visits

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Discovery on the Devon and Cornwall Circular

[caption id="DiscoveryontheDevonandCornwallCircular_img1" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] The sea cliffs over the Bristol Channel at Valley of the Rocks are among the tallest in Britain.[/caption]

A Hat Trick of Exhibitions & a Bite of Tapas

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Preserves both Sweet and Savory

A Day in the Life on the Sealed Knot

Tea and Tattle

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Puzzler

Commonplace Book

[caption id="CommonplaceBook_img1" align="aligncenter" width="867"] Spinnaker Tower rises 560 feet at Portsmouth’s Gunwharf Quay, a mecca of shops and pubs.[/caption]

All Aboard the Unexpected Adventure

The Resurrection of the Mary Rose

Girls’ Day Out

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Abbotsford Revisited

“A journey into Sir Walter Scott’s imagination.” That is how Jason Dyer, chief executive of the Abbotsford Trust, describes a visit to Scott’s home near Melrose in the Scottish Borders. Scott himself described Abbotsford as “Conundrum Castle” and it has rather unfairly been described as his “finest historical novel.”