During your trip to Suffolk you will come across many beautiful houses and cottages, painted in soft shades in harmony with their surroundings. It seems all the interiors too, are thoughtfully decorated in an enviously effortless style – you can easily recreate this look in your own home, whether you live in a period or…

    Enjoy Music and Culture at This Year’s Snape Proms The Snape Maltings are situated in the small but beautifully picturesque Suffolk village of Snape. Throughout the year, visitors from near and far can visit the Maltings to enjoy its boutiques and craft shops, locally sourced produce, and expertly curated art shows. The Maltings are…

Sitting in the seven acre grounds of Rafe Hall in Pebmarsh, on the Suffolk/Essex border, The Coach House is a beautiful, dog-friendly, self-catering cottage with two bedrooms, sleeping four people. The coach house has been sympathetically converted into an elegant and contemporary holiday cottage with bags of character and modern fixtures. Wooden floors, exposed beams…

If you love horseracing, then a visit to Newmarket must be at the top of your list of things to do during your stay in Suffolk. The town lies to the far west of the county and is known as the ‘home of horseracing’.  It has the largest centre for breeding world class thoroughbred race…

Summertime is the perfect season for a gentle sail along one of Suffolk’s many rivers. Better still if the trip takes place on an historic sailing barge such as the Sailing Barge Victor, which sails out of Ipswich and along the beautiful River Orwell. I took such a trip recently, on a warm Friday evening….