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OUR FAVOURITE LETTER Make new
memories I was delighted to receive my copy of BRITAIN magazine and discover that Dorset was
highlighted in the fi rst few pages (Jan/Feb 2011). My mother lived in Corfe Castle when she was a child and has shared many wonderful memories about her life in and
around her hometown and the Purbeck Hills, with my two sons and me. I have been lucky
enough to visit Britain, but my sons are yet to see the countryside and villages that she talked about so fondly.
We have loved listening to her share stories about the Dorset coast, about Durdle Door (the name
would have her grandsons in fl oods of laughter), but we particularly liked hearing her talk about reading Thomas Hardy, and her certainty that he adored her much-loved Dorset countryside as much as she. She encouraged her grandsons to read books set in the UK, and in particular to read Hardy. Her passion spilled over with such zest, that, inspired by his grandmother, the eldest of the two is now planning to study English Literature in the UK. My mother’s Dorset sounded like an idyllic place to be a child, and having visited it myself I believe it has changed very little. I have now made plans to bring both my sons to the UK for our next family holiday, where they will be able to follow in the footsteps of their grandmother, and from where we will start to plan my son’s new life in London. It will be a trip from which we will make new memories to add to my mother’s and mine; and will be able to create some new family memories.
Thanks to lovely pictures in BRITAIN magazine, we were able to look at and read about some of the places we will be lucky enough to visit together, this coming summer. We are all very excited! Bethany Owens, Melbourne, Australia
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an amazing holiday that my husband and I have just had in England. And more specifi cally, I wanted to say thank you – it was your magazine that helped us plan our trip to places we would not have visited had I not been a subscriber to BRITAIN magazine. We had booked and planned to come to London and stay in the capital for the entire vacation, but
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when we read about Oxford and Brighton, we realized that there are many pretty places just a train journey from our base in London. We were particularly
interested in the Royal Pavilion at Brighton; who would have thought that England would have such a palace? Buckingham and Windsor Palaces are stunning and just as I imagined them – but the Royal Pavilion is something else! And I enjoyed nothing more than strolling through the streets of Oxford. I would advise anyone planning a trip to London to take a look at the places that you can get to for a daytrip from London – it is well worth the effort and will enrich your stay in the UK. Grace Freyer, Hanover, Pennsylvania, USA
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