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My Favourite Places

My Favourite Places: Victoria Wellington from Sojo Kitchen

Foodie? Vintage lover? Victoria Wellington of Sojo Kitchen caterers hears ya. Here are a few of her favourite places, both near and far. Happy travels.
My Favourite Places

William Stonor’s family have owned stately home, Stonor Park, for a whopping 850 years, so it’s fair to say they have a fair bit of local knowledge! Here are the places he loves most

CRIME SCENE

Where does the Long Crendon-based crime writer Sharon Bolton love to spend her time? From London to Oxford and into the Chilterns, Muddy investigates
My Favourite Places: Sue Bell, Turquoise Holidays

If you’re going to ask someone about their favourite places to stay in the world it sure as damn it should be someone who owns a luxury travel company! So it’s kia ora, bula and jambo to Sue Bell of the awesome Turquoise Holiday Company, specialists in luxury long-haul and exotic destinations, beloved of top travel editors and savvy travelers and – lucky us – local to the area in Beaconsfield…

LAURA’S FAVOURITE HANGOUTS

It was a mundane garage clear-out last year that provided Laura Redrup with her lightbulb moment. She had a stack of mismatched bone china pretty tea cups that she’d bought for her wedding reception a few years back but that were now gathering dust. Use them or lose them? She plumped for the former, setting up Laura’s Travelling Teapot, a vintage-inspired afternoon tea catering business. A year on, the Chinnor-based mother-of-two provides delicious home-made cakes, scones and sandwiches for antiques fairs, weddings, hen parties and baby showers. Those teapots do indeed do a lot travelling around our region, so we asked Laura to give us the lowdown on her Fave Places….
Where you going, Clover?

She’s lived all over the world, but author Clover Stroud is now back home in Oxfordshire, so we’ve tapped her up for her local recommendations.

My Favourite Places

Opera isn’t just for the elite and nor does it have to be performed in staid, fancy venues, according to Mike Woodward, founder of Opera Anywhere. Since 2000, Mike and his wife Vanessa have sought to ditch the art form’s lofty connotations, producing performances everywhere from an ice cream van to the roof of a […]
Adventurer Felicity Aston’s Favourite Places

Where does the first woman ever to ski across the Antarctic like to hang out when she’s not in a bivouac in the freezing cold? You might be surprised!

My Favourite Places: Alexandra’s perfect storm

The curator of the ‘Storms, War and Shipwrecks’ exhibition at The Ashmolean, Alexandra Sofroniew holds a DPhil in Ancient History from Oxford, has been a lecturer at St John’s College, Oxford and is about to become an professor in Art History in California. So not only is she a total smartypants, she knows Oxfordshire really well. You can really go off some people.
Fave Places: The Wonder Kitchen’s Sammie Goddard

Sammie Goddard runs The Wonder Kitchen, a lipsmacking cupcake business based in North Oxfordshire with a huge local following. Her pink customized 18ft van Lily is a regular at food festivals, parties, school proms and weddings and has racking for a mind-blowing 500 cupcakes (yeah, just mull that around!). Born and bred in Buckinghamshire, here […]