SURREY NOT SORRY

The future of virtual travel has taken off in the south, as the tourist board of England’s leafiest county took its annual celebration Surrey

Day online.

It’s known as Leafy Surrey for good reason – it is officially England’s most densely-wooded county, with more than a fifth of its land covered by trees.

It also happens to be one of the most densely populated with ancient inhabitants. No, not just the Bronze Age forts, but Brian May and Roger Taylor from Queen and Eric Clapton, while Freddie Mercury is buried in Woking’s Brookwood Cemetery.

But its most famous citizen is national treasure Dame Judi Dench who also revealed her favourite local haunts – the Priory Farm farm shop, Nutfield, and British Wildlife Centre, a zoo of our national species in Lingfield.

The county has also starred in a whole host of hit movies, from Four Weddings and a Funeral, to The Holiday and Skyfall.

The hundreds of events that took place across the county last year had to be recreated online at visitsurrey. com/whats-on/surrey-day this time for an audience that tuned in from all around the world.

Surrey Day was trending on Twitter and there were online tours of museums, galleries and attractions, interviews with local celebs including Dame Judi, and Guildford Cathedral was turned green in a woody homage.

Now that we’re not going on holiday until the year 2025 at least, you’d better pack your laptop and get travelling…