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Reisgids Slow Travel Durham | Bradt Travel Guides (9781784779498)

City, Dales & Coast

  • ISBN / CODE: 9781784779498
  • Editie: 2023
  • Aantal blz.: 320
  • Auteur(s): Gemma Hall
  • Uitgever: Bradt Travel Guides
  • Soort: Reisgids
  • Serie: Slow Travel
  • Taal: Engels
  • Hoogte: 19.7 cm
  • Breedte: 13.0 cm
  • Dikte: 2.3 cm
  • Bindwijze: Paperback
  • Uitvoering: -
  • Beoordeling: 5,0 ★★★★★ (1 review) Schrijf een review
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Travel writer Gemma Hall explored Durham extensively by bicycle and on foot to produce this brand new title in Bradt's award-winning series of Slow travel guides to UK regions. Walkers, cyclists, wildlife lovers, families, foodies, culture vultures and railway enthusiasts are all catered for, with coverage of a wide range of attractions. As the only comprehensive guidebook to the county, it also contains all the practical information you could need to plan and enjoy time in this delightful, diverse yet under-explored English county.
 
Unexpected treats throng here, from Tanfield Railway (the world's oldest line) to fellside Methodist chapels accessed by remote footpaths crossing silvery burns, and the Bowes Museum, where an automated silver swan comes to life at 2pm every day to 'catch' a fish. And even well-known sites offer surprises: famed for its cathedral, medieval streets, world-renowned university and 500 listed buildings, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Durham city is also the birthplace of English mustard. Durham city may be feted by up to 4.37 million tourists a year (2019 figures), yet few visitors venture into the county's wider countryside, with its unsung wooded valleys, old mining villages, Heritage Coast Path, and the rugged hills and valleys of Weardale and Upper Teesdale, where national nature reserves harbour thriving meadows filled with relict plants from the last Ice Age.
 
Key heritage attractions such as Castle Barnard's medieval fort and High Force waterfall (one of England's greatest) are described in intimate detail - but so too are many places that have never made it into a guide on Durham: lesser-known museums, historical buildings and birdwatching sites. Here too are more remote treats that need tracking down by cycling old railway trails, or on foot, following old packhorse trails to reach abandoned collieries, secluded bathing pools and the display grounds of the black grouse, a rare gamebird. Whether you are keen to visit Roman forts or understand England's industrial heritage, to wander the heathery uplands of Moor House or stride boldly along miles upon miles of coastline, discover Durham with Bradt's unique Slow guide.

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Heerlijk om te lezen en handig om je tochtjes te plannen. Verrassende en leuke tips over minder bekende en minder toeristische plekjes. Slow travel made even more interesting.

★★★★★ door Lea van der Heijden 13 augustus 2023 | Heeft dit artikel gekocht

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