Travels with postcards around the world

Henley-on-Thames, set  on a mile-long stretch of the Thames , is famous for its regatta , founded in 1839 and held every year in early July....

  Birmingham , Britain's largest city after London , cannot be called beautiful; wrecked by city "planners" of the mid-20th ce...

  Marked by rolling uplands, green fields, and limestone cottages with prim flower beds, the Cotswolds , 100 miles west of London , make a...

Here in the wooden gorge of the Severn River , the industrial Revolution was born in 1709 when Abraham Darby discovered that by smelting iro...

The Venice of the Cotswolds  Bourton-on-the-Water is a village in Gloucestershire , England that lies on a wide flat vale within the Cotswo...

Oxford is ninety kilometres from London and only sixty kilometres from Heathrow Airport. The River Thames runs through Oxford, and the ...

Despite its worldwide fame, Stratford is, at heart, an unassuming market town. Spreading back from the River Avon , Stratford's town cen...

Warwick , county town of Warwickshire, is a pleasant blend of 16th- and 17th- century timbered buildings with 18- century brick. It's fa...