British Travel Journal

ISLAND IMMERSION

How well do you know Britain? Perhaps you’ve ticked off the main sites, dashing off to see Stonehenge, or snatching a weekend break at Hadrian’s Wall. But have you taken in Devon’s two coastlines and brace of national parks on the same trip? Or tried a Rutland Pippin (a bit like a pork pie but shaped like an apple) after cycling or walking some of the 23-mile trail round Rutland Water in Britain’s smallest county?

You may feel that you’ve ‘done’ Cornwall, the Cotswolds and Cumbria but

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