It is a winter of discontent in Shakespeare’s birthplace after Stratford-upon-Avon found itself in Tier Three despite low infection rates. Pubs and restaurants in the historic market town had been busy putting up Christmas decorations and taking bookings when they got the bad news. Although the Warwickshire town’s already low rates are falling still further, … Read more
It is a winter of discontent in Shakespeare’s birthplace after Stratford-upon-Avon found itself in Tier Three despite low infection rates. Pubs and restaurants in the historic market town had been busy putting up Christmas decorations and taking bookings when they got the bad news. Although the Warwickshire town’s already low rates are falling still further, … Read more
An Inspector calls… at Billesley Manor Hotel near Stratford-upon-Avon and says the Bard would have liked the cosy dining room – but he doubts the £5.6m refurb included his bedroom Shakespeare is said to have written As You Like It in what is now the hotel’s As You Like It lounge The Inspector says the … Read more
How do you visit historic Stratford-upon-Avon without feeling like you’re on a school trip? Check-in at the town’s ‘time tunnel’ 16th-century Hotel Indigo for starters… Formerly one of Stratford’s oldest pubs, the Falcon Inn, the 93-room boutique hotel opened last year It has walls lined with wooden panels salvaged from Shakespeare’s final home across the … Read more
Emotional moment pensioner hugs her grandson, 29, for the first time in months using £70 ‘cuddle curtain’ he invented using shower guard and plastic sleeves Antony Cauvin, of Stratford-upon-Avon, hadn’t hugged gran in over two months His invention is a see-through shower curtain fitted with four long safety sleeves While hugging, his gran gave a … Read more