News about Bill Bryson

A bucket list that won't break the bank! Which is the best FREE days out?

www.dailymail.co.uk, June 3, 2023
Almost 7,000 people were surveyed by the consumer champion, asking them to rate their experiences at more than 900 free-to-enter museums, galleries, and historic attractions around Edinburgh, from Cardiff to Edinburgh. The top four museums are shown on the images. Which? 'As the cost of living crisis continues to be a strain on household budgets, finding cheap or free days out has never been more significant.'

Welcome to Skegness?The resort that fears it's now better known for migrants than donkey rides

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 11, 2023
Locals in Skegness revel in the town's tongue-in-cheek name, Skeg Vegas, and they need their sense of humour now more than ever. For one thing, the town, though popular, is getting suspicious comments. Skegness is used to this, but it is also unhip and defiantly unhip. Bill Bryson, an American writer, described it as "the most traditional of any English seaside resort" in the United States. It has become much more concerning that this government has come to exemplify our creaking immigration scheme: something it hopes will keep holidaymakers off this summer - and see businesses go to the wall. You will find the reason as a result of a row of hotels and boarding houses packed with hundreds of migrants along the seafront, opposite Arnold Palmer's Putting Course: hundreds of migrants.

WHAT BOOK would writer and journalist Nell Frizzell take to a desert island?

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 9, 2023
Nell Frizzell, a writer and journalist, says she's currently reading a few books, including Lauren Bravo's debut book Preloved and This Won't Hurt: How Medicine Fails Women by Marieke Bigg. Heidi is Heidi's first book she ever read to herself, in its entirety.

In the face of rising costs of electricity and ingredients, rich tea biscuits' rates have risen by 160 percent

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 26, 2023
Prince William's biscuit pack was risen from 69p to £1.80 per box due to rising costs of ingredients, manpower, and electricity. According to The Mail's survey, digestives' price has increased by 67% from £1.09 to £1.80 over the same period. Both custard creams and bourbons have increased by 62%, while hobnobs have doubled their price as seven years ago. The Food & Drink Federation's chief executive, Karen Betts, said, "All food suppliers have seen a significant rise in input prices over the last two years."

In: Harry Potter's history as it approaches 100 years, the Flying Scot and the Hotel J K Rowling wrote Harry Potter in Harry Potter's "Harry Potter" about LNER's centennial celebrations

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 1, 2023
Carlton Reid explores LNER's remarkable backstory. He travels from Inverness to London, stopping off at grand hotels, interviewing employees, including one whose great-grandfather who worked for LNER. LNER's story begins on January 1, 1923, when it was inherited 23 hotels, eight canals, 20 docks, and even a large fleet of horse-drawn tractors.

WHAT BOOK would thriller writer David Baldacci take to a desert island?

www.dailymail.co.uk, November 10, 2022
Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth Of Other Suns is David Baldacci's most recent book. N.G. praises The Magic Squirrel in addition. Grishina was the first to get him the reading bug. Bill Bryson's book also said he'd take 'anything by Bill Bryson' with him to a desert island.