Category Archives: Travel

publisher’s plan to dominate Disney

Netflix announced the locations of the first two Netflix Homes in mid-June; these are “experiential entertainment venues” in major shopping malls that are the exact opposite of the Netflix and Chill experience. Located in former department stores at the King of Prussia Mall and Galleria Dallas Mall near Philadelphia, both of these malls will cover… Read More »

Readers’ favorite campsites in Europe

Istrian dreams, Croatia After nearly two months of cycling around Europe, we had become campsite experts. Natura Camp Karli stands out as a calm oasis on the Istria peninsula in Croatia. We loved setting up our tent in an olive garden where we were welcomed with a gift of handmade products. The facilities were simple… Read More »

A perfect holiday in Suffolk – East Anglia’s relaxed answer to the Cotswolds

Within easy reach of both London and the Midlands, Suffolk is the smallest and gentlest of the East Anglian counties. Its biggest attraction is perhaps its shore; here are two of Britain’s most attractive seaside resorts, Aldeburgh and Southwold; Minsmere RSPB Reserve and the ancient settlement of Dunwich are at the center of magnificent stretches… Read More »

Top 10 things to do in Suffolk

Diversity is Suffolk’s watchword; within its small borders there’s a surprisingly wide range of attractions and experiences – everything from boat trips in the southernmost reaches of the Broads National Park to a visit to an icon of the Industrial Revolution (which, incidentally, is not far from one of the country’s largest nuclear reactors). Meanwhile,… Read More »

16 of the hottest plays and musicals to watch this summer

reminder The iceman comes again: Complicité’s 1999 marvel of memory, technology and identity, inspired by the 1991 discovery of Europe’s oldest known natural mummy (Ötzi), is reimagined by Simon McBurney with a few old faces (Complicité’s brave Tim McMullan) among the new ones (Khalid Abdalla, who was Dodi Fayed in The Crown). The National’s Olivier… Read More »

Australian island oasis you’ve probably never heard of

Children waved enthusiastically next to the landing strip as our plane touched down at the Cocos (Keeling) Islands: a tiny patch of land consisting of two atolls of 27 atolls in a remote corner of the Indian Ocean between Australia and Sri Lanka. Only two of these islands are inhabited – Home Island and West… Read More »

What is Slave Play? Jeremy O. Harris’ controversial Broadway hit is coming to London’s West End this summer

It came as little surprise that Jeremy O. Harris’s 2018 production of Slave Play moved to Broadway less than a year after its premiere. There was a real clamor to see their first performance at the 198-seat New York Theater Workshop, which critics described as “deliberately provocative, flamboyantly transgressive and utterly surprising” and “wildly inventive.”… Read More »