The Washington Post, March 17th, 1991
When planning a trip to England, I firmly subscribe to the thumb-print school of travel. This commits my husband and myself to spending at least a week in one spot no larger than my thumb print covers on a large-scale map. Excursions are permitted, but none more than half an hour's drive away, a time that is quite long enough on narrow, winding and high-hedged lanes. My favorite thumb print covers the village of Chedington in west Dorset, so hidden that its handful of cottages doesn't even appear on some maps. Here, far from the crowds that haunt Blenheim Palace, Stonehenge, Stratford upon Avo...
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