A morning in Painswick: the Rococo Garden in October, the yews and lychgate at St Mary's, and the stone-cottage doors dressed for Halloween.

A house built in 1902–1908 to feel like a Greek home on Delos: marble, mosaics, a library like a monk's cell, and the perfect opposite of the Villa Ephrussi up the hill.

A June afternoon in Woodstock in Oxfordshire: the honey-stone town outside Blenheim's gate, its two pub streets, a queen held prisoner, a glove trade that paid for the stone, and how to see the park for free.

The library that played the cottage hospital, the church that hosted every wedding, and a thousand years of Oxfordshire market town that the series never mentions.

A house built between two bays by a Rothschild who wanted to live on a ship, with nine gardens, a loggia buried in bougainvillea and the best terrace view on the Riviera.

A marble bust in a top hat and a masquerade mask, paper chains in the library and a Tudor gatehouse in the frost. The National Trust's Warwickshire house at its best.

An hour from Liverpool Street: pargeted plasterwork, jettied timber houses, the largest turf maze in Europe, a free Victorian garden, and Audley End a walk across the park.

A house so big that Charles II bought it as a palace, and the third of it that survives, with Robert Adam interiors, a Capability Brown park and a parterre full of tulips in April.

Inside Rockaway Park, the DIY arts quarry near Temple Cloud, Somerset — studios, sculpture, a vegan café and a chapel dedicated to alternative thought.

Three Cotswolds villages, one spring - Castle Combe's honey-stone cottages, Winchcombe's proper bakery, and Minchinhampton's roses and grazing cows.

Four days chasing changeable Atlantic weather in Madeira, from a rainbow over Funchal's rooftops to café culture and practical notes for your own trip.

A honey-stone market town in the Cotswolds where wool merchants once built fortunes, antiques dealers now build reputations, and the King lives just down the road.

A rainy Christmas Eve in Shakespeare's home town, where half-timbered streets glow under fairy lights and the River Avon runs dark and quiet past the theatre he never saw.

Up on its windy hilltop, the highest town in the Cotswolds turns gold and crimson every October — I went looking for its wool-trade history, its 1646 battle, and the church door that may or may not have inspired Tolkien.

Ten minutes inland from the Cagnes-sur-Mer coast, the old village of Villeneuve-Loubet hides a 13th-century castle, Escoffier's birth house, and some of the quietest medieval streets on the French Riviera.

A wander through Winchcombe's working high street, blossom-framed old police station, Easter door wreaths, a 1967 bakery, and the town's whimsically named cottages — a proper, unpolished Cotswolds day trip.

A quiet Cotswold market town near Stroud with a bakehouse café on Market Square, roses spilling over an old school house, a postbox with a painted cow, and a famous common where cattle graze freely among the golfers.

A crisp spring morning in the Wiltshire village that wool money built and Hollywood keeps borrowing — the Bybrook, the packhorse bridge, and why it's worth arriving before the day-trippers.

Autumn in the Cotswolds, village by village: fallen leaves in Bourton-on-the-Water, crimson creeper on the Wheatsheaf at Northleach, the Swan at Bibury in evening light, both Slaughters, the Manor House at Castle Combe, and when the colour actually peaks.

Two days based at the Hare and Hounds in Westonbirt: the National Arboretum, Tetbury's Chipping Steps, the hamlet of Box, and Winstones ice cream among the cattle on Minchinhampton Common.