BBC Countryfile – SIMON WHALEY

Welsh Border Seven Castle Challenge

Check out the October issue of BBC Countryfile magazine for my Welsh Border Seven Castle Challenge. This month’s theme is[…]

BBC Countryfile magazine’s Great Days Out section, in the February 2019 issue, looks at Lost Worlds, and I’ve got a[…]

Check out the April issue of BBC Countryfile magazine for my Firth of Flowers piece in their Great Days Out[…]

The world of writing is a bit like busses. Nothing for a ages and then three things come along all[…]

Fancy sleeping where your favourite writer lived, worked or holidayed? Simon Whaley suggests six of the UK’s best literary stays.

STRICTLY COME LEKKING Witness early morning dance contestants compete for the avian equivalent of the Glitter Ball Trophy in the[…]

Follow in the footsteps of the mysterious Black Vaughan, a shape-shifting spectre who may have inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,[…]

As flowers blossom along the route, take a drive through black-and0white clad villages in a tour of architectural history,[…]

Experience the drama of this wild and atmospheric Welsh Border landscape that attracts the Devil, Wild Edric’s ghost and lightning!

Step back in time to roam beautiful ruins immortalised two centuries ago by the great Romantic painter JMW Turner.

If 2014 is the year you plan to explore the great British countryside on foot, then you need … …[…]

Explore the extensive remains of one of the most important Roman military sites in Europe …

BBC Countryfile magazine The astonishing survival, despite the fury of the elements, of one very determined Reverend …

Got any plans for 2013 yet? If not, then check out my feature in the January 2013 issue of BBC[…]

The August 2012 issue of BBC Countryfile magazine is out now, featuring my piece about the Roman remains and museums[…]