Guide to the pleasures: 6 drunken visits to the UK

In Britain, they are able to combine an active, informative and entertaining vacation with alcohol. Many short weekend tours offered to go for local wine, beer original, first-class gin on foot, by bike or even canoe. Heroine found some interesting trips to the UK for drunk and daring.

Wine

1. FIZZ FEST Hampshire

It is an annual wine festival, which takes place at the home of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens - in Hampshire. It is conducted every year in different vineyards, this time the festival will be held in Exton Park a month later, on 21 July.

Visitors will be able to try 16 still and sparkling wines from the vineyards 8 County: Exton Park, Hambledon, Hattingley Valley, Cottonworth, Jenkyn Place, Danebury, Raimes and Black Chalk. In addition, guests will learn how to combine food and wine in a special master-class, try local dishes, and even a ride on a tractor around the vineyard, which on ordinary days closed to the public.

Find detailed information about the festival here.

2. Bicycle tour through the vineyards in Kent

The British electric bikes in the center Biddendene can take vehicles on lease and go to one of Kent routes. One of the most popular tours - Kent Vaynyards, it passes through the winery, chapel near Tenterden, where you can dine well and taste wine (for those who want to take a local wine with him on a bicycle cart provided).

Another route runs through the brewery. This year's list of trips should be enlarged. The company provides a tour card, or they can be guided with the help of a special application. Choose and book the route here.

Beer

3. marathon Brewery

LetsGoVelo project since 2016 has been conducting a series of sports-alcoholic marathons across the country. The idea is to create an active non-competitive event where people can socialize and relax.

The project has a lot of different routes, and they all lead to some ancient, innovative, small private or large well-known brewery. A good opportunity to work out and enjoy the views of the British countryside and get to the finish of a great beer (it's already included in the cost of participation in the journey).

Marathons are held throughout the summer, so you can choose the route on your taste - literally. Beer, cider, and can, gin?

Find marathons schedule here.

4. Traveling by canoe, with stops in pubs Norwich

canoe and dock in the coastal pub - a great way to spend the day. In Norwich (about 165 kilometers from London) organization engaged in such excursions company "Pub and paddle."

Tourists are offered a short trip for 2-3 hours, or seven-hour journey - have to paddle for about four hours, 2-3 hours you will spend in a nice pub.

The company has a conventional compact canoes and boats are more spacious, with tables where you can have a picnic on the water. This is a great opportunity to see Norwich on the other hand, learn the history of the city and enjoy nature. Traveling to organize the end of October, but the best time - the summer.

View routes here.

Gin

5. Production of gin in Kerngormse

is a distillery, which produces gin brand Daffy's in the heart of the Scottish highlands in the national park Kerngorms Victorian hunting lodge. In 1847, this place is visited by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Who can come here any tourist to prepare gin with their hands.

At school you gin with the help of professionals to develop their own taste for a perfect drink, gather grass for him on the hills of the park and you will see step by step the whole process of cooking and distillation of gin.

All will take about 3 hours. Zaberesh home 3 bottles of gin fodder, and if you want to drink a couple of drinks, you can stay in a cottage at the factory, and the next day to go hiking, biking, fishing or swimming.

Learn more about preparing gin here.

6. Tour of the secret garden gin

In the distillery Old Curiosity, situated at the foot of the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, is the first botanical garden in the United Kingdom gin. Here are grown and dried over 1,000 juniper shrubs and 500 species of herbs, which are then used for the preparation of gin.

Visitors can go on a tour of the secret garden and learn in detail the entire process of preparation of gin from the manual collection of herbs, dried in a special room, before distillation, bottling and labeling.

Order tour here.