Once upon a time, there was a castle …

Opening door 7 of our Advent calendar to this fabulous image of Herstmonceaux Castle in East Sussex. The 15th century moated castle with Elizabethan gardens is one of the many historic stars in our author David Ireland’s Castles of Kent and Sussex wall calendar. Would certainly make a great Christmas gift for history buffs and lovers of English castles …

The beauty of beetles

Day six of our Advent calendar and who knew that beetles could look so stylish: Macro photography at its best in Dirk Langenhan’s Wonderful Beetles calendar. We’re quite taken by the metallic sheen …

They do things differently, in Norway

It’s the second Sunday of Advent and door number four of our Advent calendar reveals a spectacular Norwegian church. Have you ever seen such a structure? We admit we hadn’t, before coming across our author Dirk Rosin’s Churches of Norway calendar which very nicely takes us into a hitherto unknown architectural world …