Swallows swooped on the evening air, the sky turned a delicate shade of pink-streaked blue and the vino-quaffing audience shushed each other as trumpets sounded across the lawn. “Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York” boomed menacing Richard III in his famous...
Glitzy, glamorous Dubai seems to be one of those places that people either love or hate. Some revel in its unabashed consumerism, no better demonstrated than at the self-styled 7 Star shrine to kitsch that is the Burj Al Arab Hotel, vibrant social scene, great sports facilities, inspirational contemporary modernistic architecture and...
Photo c/o thediamondjubilee.org Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II looked up at her son and smiled, nodded to a gold-clad footman and stepped carefully into the 1902 open-topped State Landau. Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (who'd have thought it?) got in beside her and Prince Charles settled opposite. Dark rugs were placed...
Author Barry McCann is a writer and expert on the horror genre, tradition and folk tales. He appears regularly on BBC Radio sharing quirky tales of mystery and imagination in Cumbria and Lancashire. Here are some of his favourite folklore stories from the Lake District. The shires and counties of...
To visit to Prague in autumn is a real treat. The city zings with colour, the thermometer has dipped from the heat of high summer and the chill of winter is yet to arrive. Looking down from a gently sloping hillside, tall trees show off a melange of rich shades that would...
Liverpool Slavery Tour “Use your eyes, look up and all around you – there are traces of the city’s history all around you.” These were the words of our guide on the Liverpool Slavery History Tour, a fascinating snapshot of a bygone era that some might rather forget … There are so very many things...
So what is Seattle famous for, apart from a cracker of a place to be sleepless in? Well there is the legacy of the great fire of 1889, which devastated downtown Seattle but furnished civic leaders an opportunity to make good out of the bad planning that had gone before...
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