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Blog posts from July 2013

1. Ten of the best beaches in the UK – Readers’ Choice

   July 24, 2013
   by Laura Canning | guides

   Wistfully, we asked our Facebook and Twitter followers last week about the best beaches in the UK. It was wistful because it was a weekday and the law does not (yet) allow for mandatory beach-going once the temperature goes above 25° (oh, how any party who proposed that would get …

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2. On a roll – our British cheese round-up

   July 17, 2013
   by Laura Canning | guides

   It was one of the Pitchup.com team’s fault. Bringing in a wonderfully whiffy cheddar to the office, which got us musing on Britain’s best cheeses. (After we’d wrestled the sniffy Somerset specimen from his mitts, that was.)

   
   

   Painstaking research – well, a quick  poll – has revealed (unusual) agreement among …

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3. Beautifully bonkers – the best of weird Britain (Part the Second)

   July 9, 2013
   by Laura Canning | guides

   We’ve covered bus shelters, haunted Cornish inns and crooked pubs in the first part of our look at weird Britain, and now we move on to shell grottoes, gnome reserves and titter type names like Back Passage and Bell End. We bring you Beautifully bonkers – the best of …

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4. Beautifully bonkers – the best of weird Britain (Part the First)

   July 3, 2013
   by Laura Canning | guides | offbeat | weird Britain

   We’ve covered mad museums and British beasties, and now our wide-eyed and happy chronicling of the more unusual elements of the country continues.

   
   

   The UK is full of what we can only describe as individuality, which along with castles, Beefeaters and rolling cheese down a hill are most …

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