{"id":116798,"date":"2020-05-31T13:45:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T06:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-cherished-barnard-castle-as-a-hidden-gem-before-dominic-cummings-ruined-it\/"},"modified":"2020-05-31T14:04:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T07:04:04","slug":"i-cherished-barnard-castle-as-a-hidden-gem-before-dominic-cummings-ruined-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-cherished-barnard-castle-as-a-hidden-gem-before-dominic-cummings-ruined-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I cherished Barnard Castle as a hidden gem before Dominic Cummings ruined it"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nNews of his visit to the town has led to a soaring number of inquiries about short stays, much to my annoyanceLike many people, I\u2019m still enraged by the exploits of the prime minister\u2019s adviser, Dominic Cummings, and those who seek to protect him. But alas, my ire is additionally tinged with my strongly proprietorial feelings about Barnard Castle, where he travelled to in order to test his eyesight. Naturally, I\u2019m well aware that several thousand people live in Barnard Castle; I\u2019ve seen, too, the crowd that gathers at the Bowes Museum to watch the glorious Silver Swan \u2013 an automaton much admired by Mark Twain when he saw it at the 1867 Paris exhibition \u2013 dive for fish. Nevertheless, I\u2019ve always clung to the illusion that the town is my secret. Reading in the Northern Echo that inquiries about short stays in the area were up by 160%, my heart sank faster than Boris Johnson\u2019s ratings.\u00a0 Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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