<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Great Britain</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><description>Great Britain</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[In London, Say Ta-Ta To Touristy Spots]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39983-2004Dec31.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39983-2004Dec31.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Put that guidebook down and discover off-the-tourist-track London.]]></description><author> Jane Black</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything but the Dinosaurs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44805-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44805-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[High up on the cliffs of southern England, crumbling walls, rusty gates and an old-fashioned telephone booth are all that's left of a ghost town called Tyneham. A note on the door of the 13th-century church gives visitors a clue about village's past: "Please treat the church and houses with care; we have given up our homes where many of us lived for generations to help win the war to keep men free. We shall return one day and thank you for treating the village kindly."]]></description><author> Jane Black</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Star Trek in England]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39007-2004Jul9.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39007-2004Jul9.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Cue to a car driving up a country road. Ahead: the quintessential English country village. As the camera sweeps the horizon, we see a ruined castle with crenelated walls and a round tower, sitting atop a hill. Spread out below, a winding river and endless green pastures dotted with sheep.]]></description><author> Jane Black</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horseback Riding In Wales: Castles While You Canter]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8310-2004Mar19.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8310-2004Mar19.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Our horses trot on a grassy path behind a tall green hedgerow that obscures our view of what is to come. Then we turn a corner to a wide beach along the Menai Strait, and are surprised by a close-up view of the massive Caernarfon Castle.]]></description><author> Cindy Loose</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come Together]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24067-2004Mar2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24067-2004Mar2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's 6:30 on a Friday evening and the Cavern Club is living up to its old reputation as a cellarful of noise.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In England, Tolkien Gestures]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59768-2003Dec12.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59768-2003Dec12.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I had vowed to take Dead Man's Walk. To sneak into Gothic-trimmed courtyards. To wander beside the shadow of J.R.R. Tolkien, the father of modern fantasy, in Oxford's medieval streets.]]></description><author> Ethan Gilsdorf</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novembers in England]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13113-2003Nov7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13113-2003Nov7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The trumpet sounds. The order comes: "Slow march." And into the 12th-century Church of St. Winifred on the south coast of England, over the granite threshold worn concave by generations of feet, file the handful of soldiers, gray-headed and bald, several with walking sticks, World War II jackets straining, medals arrayed on chests, backs as straight as old backs can be. The leader passes me, trembling. I, too, am trembling.]]></description><author> Sarah Clayton</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wales Castle Captured -- on Film]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9737-2003Jul4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9737-2003Jul4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Iwrite this sitting in the kitchen sink . . ."<br>As winning first sentences go, it's hard to beat that of "I Capture the Castle," the 1948 novel by Dodie Smith that is a cult favorite among Anglophiles, romantics, aspiring writers and, well, anyone who appreciates funny, unsentimental...]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In England, Wandering Down the Garden Path]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40786-2003Feb7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40786-2003Feb7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We were ready for our tea. On the eighth day of our British garden tour last June, our group had already visited two sizable plots, and we were spent. But what we found at our third stop,  as we came through an arbor covered in clouds of pink roses, immediately revived us.]]></description><author> Melissa Clark</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In England, King of  the Churchills]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28690-2002Nov8.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28690-2002Nov8.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Blenheim Palace, the Churchills' ancestral pile just northwest of Oxford, about an hour's drive from London, brings to mind Max Bialystock's shouted admonition in "The Producers": "That's right, baby! When ya got it, flaunt it! Flaunt it!"]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Here were forests ancient as the hills']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17925-2002Oct25.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17925-2002Oct25.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Following in the footsteps of poets Coleridge and Wordsworth through England's countryside.]]></description><author> Sarah Clayton</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eateries That Make the Grade in Oxford, England]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11842-2002Sep27.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11842-2002Sep27.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Oxford, England, is a university city of nearly 120,000 inhabitants, an uncommonly high percentage of whom are reasonably well-off, quite well-traveled and absurdly well-educated. You'd think that with such demographics restaurateurs would be lining up to make sure that they were well-fed, too, in star-studded houses of culinary eminence. For reasons that escape me, this has not generally been true over the 30 years that I've known this beautiful town. But a recent visit gave cause for hope.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Stonehenge, Remedying a 'Disgrace']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47237-2001Dec2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47237-2001Dec2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For the better part of four millennia, the majestic and mysterious monument known as Stonehenge has drawn visitors and worshipers to this windswept heath in southern England. But today the ancient ring of standing stones feels more like the median strip of a busy superhighway than a Neolithic treasure.]]></description><author> T.R. Reid</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[England's Big Harry Deal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6402-2001Nov23.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6402-2001Nov23.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If you thought standing in the local multiplex line this week (twice? three times?) was the end of your parental Harry Potter duties, think again. The folks at the British Tourist Authority have the following message for your kids: Mummies and daddies who really love their children take them on the Harry Potter Tour of England.]]></description><author> Steve Hendrix</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheltenham:  An Elite Retreat]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25596-2001Aug17.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25596-2001Aug17.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Have you seen that Madonna video where she's hanging in the back of a limo with some outre pals, chugging bubbly, dressed in a fly cowgirl rig, all fashion clues indicating female pimp? Makes you wonder if she changed her outfit when, it's rumored, she showed up to register her little girl, Lourdes, at Cheltenham Ladies' College.]]></description><author> Ambrose Clancy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[QE2, 2 Cool]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59235-2001Jun28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59235-2001Jun28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description><author> Richard Trenner</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tennyson, Anyone?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42519-2001May4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42519-2001May4.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I missed Monica Lewinsky and Vanessa Redgrave. But British actress Joan Plowright was in my aqua aerobics class.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[England's Eden: Dome & Garden]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17422-2001Mar30.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17422-2001Mar30.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The first thing to say about Cornwall is that it is remote.]]></description><author> Adrian Higgins</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should You Still Go?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44998-2001Mar22.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44998-2001Mar22.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It was places like Borrowdale Valley that caused William Wordsworth to be forever reaching for his quill. The countryside here, a few miles from Wordsworth's cottage, is a pastoral verse all its own. High craggy fells, rocky wrinkles in the farmland, ring the horizon. Pastures flow like green glaciers between the ridges. Stone cottages seep smoke. The daffodils are out and so is the sun.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foot-and-Mouth Report: Should You Still Go?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49273-2001Mar23.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49273-2001Mar23.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/abroad/europe/greatbritain</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:22:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The latest travel report on foot-and-mouth disease in rural England.]]></description><author> Steve Hendrix</author></item></channel></rss>