A new campsite has opened inside the Silverstone track
Hot showers, luxury toilets and powder rooms with hairdryers are not what race-goers usually experience when they visit the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
Only F1 stars like Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen get to stay in supreme comfort – cosseted in multi-million pound motorhomes that become their home-from-home during the Formula One season.
But when the Formula One roadshow arrives in Britain on July 18, a lucky few race fans will be able to watch the event from a new glamping complex which, for the first time, is located inside Silverstone’s hallowed inner circuit.
Anne Goode (l) leads an anti-Glastonbury service in 1997
Credit: Karen Davies
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The duo started regularly driving down to Pilton, 25 miles away, where they’d chat to locals in The Crown pub and visit Eavis at his home on Worthy Farm. On an early recce, they noticed that someone had erected a 30-foot white cross in their garden overlooking the festival site. The filmmakers had stumbled across a very English culture clash: the quiet and conservative village with strong Christian values versus the Methodist farmer with the vast Pagan music jamboree at which, two years previously, New Age Travellers had rioted, se
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Thursday 31 December 2020
The travel industry is one of those hit the hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic, and adjustments have been made across the glove to allow holidaymakers to enjoy travel again in the safest of circumstances. Pamela Goodman shares her top choices for holidays in 2021.
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Sweden’s west coast, stretching from Gothenburg up to the border with Norway, is littered with islands. Original Travel can tailor-make itineraries to take in the wealth of archipelago experiences.
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Menorca
Understated compared to neighbouring Mallorca and Ibiza, Menorca should feature high on any island lover’s radar as an easy escape from the UK. With picture-perfect beaches and an interior of rolling fields, dry-stone walls and grazing cows, the island has a peacefulness that can be found even in July and August. Menorca Experimental is the hotel to head for – a renovated 19th-century farmhouse near Alaior with beautifully creative interiors by Dorothé