The Roseland peninsula, Cornwall, almost dreamlike, but its castles summon up images of an era when England was threatened with invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire. Now the invaders are the wealthy middle classes, ramping up house prices, reviving Cornish nationalism and interest in the Cornish language.
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Broadstairs
John Buchan can’t stop thinking about ham. Alfred Hitchcock is frightened of eggs. Charles Dickens is hungry all the time. In Broadstairs I eat British chips and wonder where the seventy eight steps are now.
Hereford
Scrumping back to Paradise: apples, wassailing and the history of cider.
Bosworth Field
An octopus searches for the location of a battle that took place in August, 1485. Facts are disputed. Five hundred years later the body of King Richard the Third is discovered in a social services car park in Leicester. The octopus studies the menu in the battlefield visitors’ centre and notices an absence of Welsh dishes.
York Walls
A pint of beer in Guy Fawke’s birthplace leads to a rumination on war and peace, life and death and a piece of cake.
Tebay Services
A waxed paper sauce pot paradise.
Chesterfield
Apollo 8, the first colour TVs, asbestos, plague and Chesterfield’s twisted spire.
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Inner Farne
A boat trip from Seahouses to the Farne Islands escorted by a squadron of puffins.
Whitstable
In which Peter Cushing whispers to his roses.