Lancaster and Morecambe are like chalk and Lancashire cheese. So near, yet so far apart in what they offer. Morecambe, the traditional seaside resort, its Bring me Sunshine favourite son Eric Morecambe, and Victoria Woods Two Soups cafe. Plus its awesome 1930s Art Deco Midland Hotel, haunt of Coco Chanel and Laurence Olivier. Lancaster, with its Roman remains, its impregnable John o Gaunt castle and characterful Georgian buildings, built in part from slave-trade profits. Leave the crowds behind and embrace the true character of this story-filled region, one special place at a time.

Lindsay Sutton is an award-winning journalist, author and travel writer, and a former TV broadcaster and producer. He has worked for the Daily Mirror, the Daily Mail and The Times, and for ITV, Sky and the BBC. His previous book Sands of Time, focussed on the life of Morecambe Bay through the eyes of the longest-serving Queen's Guide to the Sands, Cedric Robinson.