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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Josh Barrie

Restaurants worth travelling for: Smoke at Hampton Manor, Warwickshire

My iPhone has been slowing down for some time. I’ve been due an upgrade since September, but the the idea of admin makes me feel unwell. Still, recent developments have transpired to change my mind. Most pertinent is that my battery now lasts only matter of hours, as I found out while driving to Hampton Manor in Warwickshire. 

It was about 4pm on a Thursday evening that I set off, thereby avoiding the most jagged edges of traffic, and Google Maps — I have stopped using Waze since it told me about a dead deer on the side of the A303 but failed to inform me of a two-hour backlog on the M3 — had my journey clear and blue, and a little over two hours.

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