Whisper it: It’s becoming increasingly easier to visit Europe without renting a car. Fortunately, rental prices have fallen, but the increase in cross-country train networks and operators offering alternative transport options means holidaymakers can often leave their car keys at home. The perfect city destroyer of course already knows this. Visitors to the continent’s capitals… Read More »
‘I’ve been living in a van in Scotland for a month – that’s how I spend my money’ To participate in the How I Spend program, please email money@telegraph.co.uk. All our topics are real but anonymous. I work completely remotely, doing freelance search engine optimization (SEO). I live in Bristol but have a small self-converted… Read More »
Lia Williams, 59, is an extraordinary actor seeking intelligence and warmth who is remembered for her award-winning performances on stage and screen. David Mamet’s 1993 commentary on a student accusing his professor of harassment. oleanna, was one such role. Now, 30 years later, he is about to play the role of professor. School attended Kendall… Read More »
Here are the two poles of British theatre: the aesthetically free and the socially urgent. Despite the ravages of quarantine, things don’t look so bad. It was time for Punchdrunk to take a new turn, and so it did. Viola’s Room is a departure point for immersive magicians led by artistic director Felix Barrett. Not… Read More »
“Man Overboard!” They cried with joy as I swayed precariously, flailing my arms in a desperate struggle against gravity, and then stretched backwards into the sea. “Man Overboard!” As I spat towards the surface, they shouted again in case I was too busy to hear them the first time. I pulled myself back onto the… Read More »
When I first visited Newhaven on my way to Dieppe a decade ago, the words “new” and “paradise” seemed wildly inaccurate descriptors for the town. I remember thinking that two contrasting adjectives would serve better. There was an industrial plant that smelled suspiciously as if it was melting horses’ hooves, and a group of teenagers… Read More »
When people hear Six Senses, they think of contemporary rooms, Earth Lab tutorials, and the puritanical organic philosophy woven into everything from spa treatments to headboard materials. This is exactly what they deliver in the area located on the Crans side of Crans-Montana, high above the small lake, parks and boutiques. The anti-waste, anti-consumer ethos… Read More »
“Dirty Menhirs. I curse them. I curse all the stones. “I curse the ice that brought them here.” 20 kilometers into the bike ride through the flowery plains of North East Germany, my 10-year-old daughter was bored. We were on the “Raroute der Megalithkultur”, a week-long cycling route among the Neolithic tombs scattered between the… Read More »
It has been 150 years since a group of painters on the fringes of the French art scene put together an exhibition of their work at a photographer’s studio in Paris. It was the dawn of perhaps the most famous art movement of all time: Impressionism. But although the breakthrough occurred in Paris, the style… Read More »