When the clouds part and Britain gets its rare dose of sunshine, something magical happens: the picnic blankets come out, ...

The city is convenient and exceptionally cheap, with an airport just 15 minutes’ drive from the Unesco-listed Old Town and ...

‘The arrival of the food parcel was a red-letter day in our family. Much of the contents I had never heard of before let alone eaten. There was tinned peaches, coffee, tea, chocolate, tinned beans and ...

Christmas pudding is a traditional British dessert popular during the holiday season. A Christmas pudding is a dense fruit cake often made weeks or even months in advance. This time allows the ...

Here are 18 British Christmas traditions that might surprise you. Yorkshire puddings are perfect with gravy, but people outside the UK may have never heard of them. A traditional British roast dinner ...

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A British tradition Annual sales and circulation of Christmas cards have been in decline since the 1990s. Laments over the potential “death” of the Christmas card have been especially vocal in ...

Although “pudding” across the pond can be a catchall ... There’s something about a British Christmas that feels just right. It is, in fact, very much our cup of tea. The holiday canon ...

Since that time, the traditional smells of Christmas — sage and onion gravy, plum pudding, steaming punch — in British homes have always mingled with a faint trace of mercuric fulminate.