If you’re a regular reader of these Agents Perspectives (email me at ptickner@customgb.co.uk, it would be good to meet you), you’ll be familiar with my mantra of “Travelling Less Seeing More” and my top 5 stories are just another very good illustration of just how this can be done. As all these attractions are a short hop from London Heathrow, it makes better sense to base them in a fine country house hotel so that you can offer them a stylish, travel less, see more start to their UK visit before they head into London.

For much the same reason, interest in Cotswolds-based tea room tours is also growing, as is awareness of new travel experiences through the northern gateway of Manchester where the World…

In 1987, Australian entrepreneur Glen Moroney founded Scenic Tours, a company that got its start offering coach trips to the Australian coast. Initially, Scenic Tours marketed its product to residents of Melbourne but soon realized that its guests would travel further with them. For two decades, Scenic Tours continued to grow and expand, earning accolades from travelers around the world for quality and service, not to mention Scenic’s rapidly diverse array of tour packages.

Knowing a little bit about the game myself (my college team made it to the College World Series in Omaha back in ’68), I find myself cringing when a “million dollar baby” one-hands a fly ball out in left field. On more than one occasion, the dude drops the pill. I remember watching one game and witnessed two of these drops. (Incredible! Or should I say "pathetic." It is another textbook example of why God gave us two hands...to catch fly balls.

Somewhere along the way ballplayers decided that in order to protect their manicure on their throwing hand, it would behoove them to snag air balls with the glove hand only. "Look at me Ma! One hand!" Why? Can someone explain the logic behind this…