Victoria Borwick

Golden hues and layers in the landscape. A slightly misty start to the day here in Glastonbury. Photograph taken from Glastonbury Tor this morning.

First day after the vernal equinox — it's so light at 5.45 am now!

Tissington, Derbyshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Come spend the day in Runswick Bay Even if it's just virtually 😊 All pictures posted today will be from there.

A big thank you from us and all the local farmers to West Oxfordshire District Council for letting us have a proper car park at The Farmer’s Dog. Let’s hope this marks the start of a new and more cordial relationship. #backbritishfarming

Thank you to @HBW_LeedsCastle Board Member for @VisitEnglandBiz for all your great work supporting our tourism sector #Englishtourismweek26 @VisitEngland

Visit England Director Urges Yorkshire Coast Residents To Become Local Tourists thisisthecoast.co.uk/news/local-new…

To all celebrating this evening. May the new year bring renewed hope, strength and the promise of a brighter future for the Iranian people. Woman. Life. Freedom. #Nowruz 🥚

Proud of the role we play, or as Cillian Murphy recently said, “it’s become kind of one of the characters in the film and the TV shows…..so I’ve great fondness for @BCLivingMuseum “ 😍

We are so happy spring is here! 🌷🌞🇨🇭Tell us your favourite spot in #Switzerland to enjoy the beautiful weather.

#EnglishTourismWeek26 ends tomorrow! 🚨 It's your last chance to get a 15% discount on @OfficialToursOX 🚶‍♂️ The #Oxford University & City Tour is running today and tomorrow but you can also book for any dates this year. 📅 Code ETW2026 ➡ bit.ly/3NAK3Cd @VisitEnglandBiz

Delighted to be @NHM_London this morning for @BBCBreakfast to share our @alva_uk member visitor figures for 2025. And,in between filming, a particular joy and treat to hold a 5million year old shark tooth from the museum’s collection. The @NHM_London was the most visited in 2025.

@boatsing @theboatrace @BritishRowing

Great concert

In 1959, Volkswagen Beetle cars offered a coffee maker as an optional extra.

#SaturdayMorning Spring has sprung @TrinCollCam since our last visit for fab Parent & Guardian Lunch in Mid February.Another shift for @HBW_LeedsCastle & moi in our Mr & Mrs Shifter role relocating @LorcanBonser & college clobber from Cambridge to Leeds Castle for Easter vacation

One storm. One fallen tree. One field in the Lake District. ✏️ The entire global pencil industry. There is a field in the Lake District. Nothing remarkable about it. Fell sheep, grey sky, Cumbrian rain. Until one day a storm came through. It uprooted a tree and underneath the roots was something nobody had ever seen before. A black substance. Soft, dark, left a mark on everything it touched. The shepherds didn't know what it was, but they used it to mark their sheep. That was 1565. It was the purest deposit of graphite ever found on earth. The only one like it. Ever. 🌍 Word spread fast. The Crown seized the mine, put armed guards on the fell and flooded it between diggings to keep the price high. Stealing graphite became a criminal offence. Punishable by transportation to Australia. Because this wasn't just for marking sheep. It was perfect for lining cannonball moulds. It made England's cannonballs rounder. Faster. More deadly. ⚔️ England had a pencil monopoly for nearly a century. Every artist, every cartographer, every engineer in Europe. All of them wanted what was in that one Cumbrian field. Slowly, workshops appeared in nearby Keswick. Cottage industries. Families cutting graphite into sticks. Wrapping them in string. Then sheepskin. Then wood. The pencil was born. ✏️ In a Cumbrian field. Because a storm uprooted a tree. There is still a pencil factory in Keswick today. On the same site it has always been. Did you know that? These islands have thousands of stories the world has forgotten. We find them. We tell them. We put them in front of millions. You help us make that possible. Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 proudofus.co.uk

Northern Lights forecast to reappear across UK on Saturday bbc.in/47dKkSg

In my interviews for @alva_uk over the last few days I’ve been asking @GOVUK to support our sector by reducing VAT on attractions and hospitality, review and reduce business rates, reintroduce tax-free shopping for overseas visitors, and finalise their draft tourism strategy.

As well as being International Day of Happiness today and the end of #EnglishTourismWeek26 it’s my birthday this weekend. I’ve just popped to the @alva_uk office to pick up post and these formidable slippers from the superb @TankMuseum were waiting for me. I now feel invincible.