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Many couples who tied the knot under Covid-19 restrictions have spoken glowingly about the experience of more intimate ceremonies, which look set to stay.
If this past year has taught us anything, it’s pragmatism. Forced into corners with very little wriggle room, everyone has had to re-examine aspects of life that have always been taken for granted including dashing into shops, holidays abroad and celebrating rites of passage with large gatherings of friends and family.
New habits have been formed and some of them are definitely here to stay (online grocery deliveries and the convenience of parents’ meetings via Zoom, we hope).
A POPULAR destination on the Cheshire/Shropshire border has made changes to a public event in order to welcome more people. Combermere Abbey, just outside of Whitchurch, has announced that its grounds will be reopened to the public from Wednesday, April 14 for the popular Bluebell walks, which will now be held over a five-week period. The walk is normally held one day a year but plans are now in place for it to be held on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays from April 14 until May 23, while demand could lead to an extension. Abbey owner Sarah Callander Becket said: “I am so excited to welcome local people from Cheshire and north Shropshire back to Combermere Abbey this year.
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Travelling around Britain isn’t always cheap. But there are ways you can keep the cost down
Holidays on home soil are likely to be the first we can take this year. Alas, travelling around Britain isn’t always cheap. But there are ways you can keep the cost down.
You can legally wild camp in Scotland and Dartmoor, or stay in a mountain bothy for free (when covid rules allow; mountainbothies.org.uk). And then there’s camping, of course: last year, on a three-day walk from my front door, I paid £7.50 a night, cooked couscous on my stove and spent a fiver on the bus back home. That might not be everyone’s idea of a bargain – some might prefer, say, access to a shower – but I felt I got a lot of experience for my money. And that’s perhaps the way to judge a British break; not on cost, but on value.