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It will also open a of the Outer Banks More than 400 years later, the new luxury Clubhouse lounge next Gunton Hall Coastal Village, Su olk £69 £69 and it feels more like woodland where the settlement spring, alongside a refurbished Lakeside Coastal Village, £69 £69 you’re heading for the stood has an eerie calm. A short film Virgin Holidays v-room. Outer Limits. at the visitor centre explains the Highlights of the enlarged flying Alvaston Hall Hotel, Cheshire £79 £99 DUS Highway 64 crosses a 40-mile story and every day in summer a programme – which offers 30,000 Cricket St. Thomas Hotel, £79 £79 stretch of forest where the largest play called The Lost Colony is additional seats year on year – black bears in the world roam wild. performed at an open-air theatre Holme Lacy House Hotel, £79 £79 include more services to New Then there’s a three-mile bridge down by the waterfront. Nidd Hall Hotel, North £79 £99 York, Barbados and Orlando. over the Alligator River, a five-mile Five miles across the water is the The Clubhouse will host Upper bridge to Roanoke Island, and finally region’s other main claim to fame. Hotel, £89 £89 Class passengers and Gold Card a two-mile bridge to the chain of On December 17, 1903, a pair of members and offer a la carte islands known as OBX. It’s all bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Studley Castle Hotel, £99 £99 dining, a bar and spa. breathtakingly scenic. Ohio, made the world’s first aircraft In the new look v-room, One of the first things flight above a stretch of customers will get buffet food and 2 nights, price per person, per break you notice is that Four windswept sand at Kitty play areas for younger travellers. someone called Virginia Hawk. 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, ~ - ~- -. Freewheeling Raleigh is just capital Our trip to North Carolina minutes after we passed pleasingly named town of was topped and tailed with birthplace of Pepsi-Cola, directly over the flight Duck has quirky shops on a stays in Raleigh, the state QUAINT  invented in a local drugstore New Bern monument. For only $69 it waterfront boardwalk. It’s capital, and New Bern, a in 1893 as Brad’s Drink. The also worth taking a long was home was a memorable way to small town near the coast. of Pepsi building is now a Pepsi shrine see the Outer Banks on a walk around Historic Raleigh is by no means a and even though I’m fizzy-pop ­beautiful sunny day. Corolla Park, with its small town but it feels just phobic, a huge float with The night before we had redbrick lighthouse and like one. Everyone you meet ice-cream proved irresistible. visited a bar called Poor Rich- picture-perfect village. seems to know everyone Pepsi apart, this is another ard’s in the Roanoke town of Beyond Corolla, 4x4s can else and nearly everything town that thrives on unique Manteo. A young man called Grant carry on north to a stretch of is within walking distance. local businesses, from Tate heard our accents and insisted HISTORIC Honouring beach and woodland where wild quaintly traditional stores the flight pioneers After flying in we ate at on buying drinks. He turned out to horses roam. They are said to be the Garland, a pan-Asian such as Mitchell’s Hardware be descended from the brother of descended from animals that restaurant owned by (motto: if we don’t have it, you William Tate, the Kitty Hawk postmaster who swam ashore from Spanish shipwrecks in the husband-and-wife don’t need it), to first-class encouraged the Wright Brothers to go there 16th century. musicians Paul and Cheetie, restaurants like the and hosted them when they arrived. We’d hoped to drive 60 miles through the Persimmon Waterfront, new who play in the rock band ago. His Beer Garden holds the “They wrote to 101 postmasters all over the sparsely developed southern strand and rejoin Cypress Hall, plus lunchtime Birds of Avalon. After an world record for the most ales US and Bill was the only one who replied,” the mainland via two small car ferries and the favourite Captain Ratty’s. excellent meal Paul took us to a on tap – an incredible 366. Grant told us proudly. tiny island of Okrakoke. We did make a short We took a trolleybus tour and local bar, greeting nearly Along the way we lunched at You need to rent a car to get around the detour south to climb up the 214 steps of found the jewel in New Bern’s everyone we passed by name, Brewery Bhavana and Beasley’s Outer Banks and north of the Roanoke bridge Bodie Island lighthouse, but the island- crown – streets full of and he knew Matt and Nicole, Chicken & Honey, both tastily there are 36 miles of road. The first 12 are a hopping route would have taken a whole day antebellum homes lovingly owners of our hotel, the typical of a town where local four-lane highway and, although everywhere and we just didn’t have the time. preserved and restored. Like wonderful Guest House Raleigh. owners are the rule, not the is bright and clean, you could be anywhere in Anyway, it’s a good excuse to go back. those in Savannah, Georgia, Next morning we had exception. America as the strip malls, discount stores they escaped the destruction of breakfast in City Market, an area New Bern, around 110 miles and diners roll by. the civil war. of quaint cobblestoned streets, south east, was Raleigh’s Breaking the pattern on the western side is We stayed in one such Get there before hitting the North predecessor as state capital until an immense system of dunes called Jockey’s ■■American Airlines flies building brought back to life by South Carolina Museum of History, 1792. It was hit hard by Ridge State Park. daily from Heathrow to husband-and-wife owners Carolina then the Museum of Art. Set in a Hurricane Florence in 2018 but We spent an hour traversing its shifting Raleigh Durham, fares Michael and Denise, who retired vast park with outdoor exhibits, has bounced back so well that sandy slopes but had to abandon our mission from £731 return aa.com. early to create luxury B&B The the latter was huge, uncrowded, we didn’t notice any effects until to reach the distant sea as rain clouds gath- Rooms at Guest House Jarvis at 220. and has everything from Old we took a river cruise and saw ered and lunch beckoned, so we pulled into Raleigh from $199 a night Denise, an Anglophile former Masters to modern sculptures. cabin cruisers stuck in trees. the Outer Banks Brewing Station, billed as guesthouseraleigh.com. B&B at The Tranquil flight attendant, even serves Back in town at the multi- On our Cruise The Neuse trip America’s first wind-powered brew pub. House Inn in Manteo from $109 a night PG Tips tea. storey Beer Garden, we met we also passed an osprey’s nest After a nature reserve at Kitty Hawk Woods, tranquilhouseinn.com. Rooms at The Jarvis at Both towns were great owner Niall Hanley, a genial (complete with egg-sitting the main road veers off to the mainland and 220 in New Bern from $149 a night. places to visit and we thought giant from County Mayo who female) and the palatial home of the route north becomes quieter, greener and thejarvisat220.com. they’d be wonderful places to has built up a chain of 10 food Nicholas Sparks, author of more upmarket. Huge villas with manicured ■■Tourist info: visitnc.com visitraleigh.com live, too. If I were young again and drink venues since opening weepy bestseller The Notebook. lawns back on to a never-ending sandy visitnewbern.com outerbanks.org I’d be looking for a job in Raleigh the city’s first Irish pub 20 years New Bern is also the beach with openings for public access. 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