Destination
United Kingdom
Edition · 2026
A small register on the British Isles — country houses, walled gardens and the longer English weekend.
The edition begins in England and travels by way of country lanes — Hampshire first, then Yorkshire and Cornwall, eventually the Highlands. The houses we keep on this register share a common shape: long-restored, set on land they eat from, and built around a fire as much as a table.
From the carnet · United Kingdom
- May 4Swinton Estate · MashamA castellated North Yorkshire country house on a twenty-thousand-acre family estate — Samuel's Restaurant in the oval room, a country club and spa set in the woods, a cookery school upstairs, and the longer English weekend in the dales.
- May 4The Torridon · TorridonA red-stone Victorian shooting lodge on the edge of Loch Torridon in Wester Ross, beneath three Munros — a Michelin-starred kitchen, a whisky bar of several hundred malts, a working farm and a 58-acre estate.
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Sister countries.
- FranceA country read slowly. From the river light of Paris to the quieter harbours of the south — a deliberate collection of stays, tables and passages where time lengthens.
- ItalyA country read aloud. From the cool light of the lakes to the long afternoons of the south — cities, hill towns and tables we keep returning to.
- SpainA country whose tables hold the highest pressure in Europe and whose old towns hide them behind plain stone doors. Our Spanish chapter opens slowly, on a single street in Cáceres.
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