Symphony concerts are not supposed to be like this. This week, viewers of the world premiere of Huang Ruo’s Floating City of Sounds will download an app and stop at one of four designated starting points on the streets of Manchester. They will then choose one of the symphony’s 11 pre-recorded synchronized tracks on their… Read More »
If you want to experience a time warp, take a trip to the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. Beach hotels from the 1960s have everything you’d expect from properties built during the Soviet era and haven’t been updated since. Although my three-star hotel room is nice enough and I can fall asleep to the sound… Read More »
The best seat on the plane? This depends on your preferences as a passenger. For example, if you value safety over a quick exit, or if you’re more likely to lose sleep than eat on the plane, you’ll definitely want to sit in a different part of the plane. With this in mind, Telegraph Travel… Read More »
Fan – Gaelic word for peak – features featured in the names of many of the rugged mountains in the Brecon Beacons. Yet the English meaning of the word fan describes the topography of these south-east Wales plateaus in the same way: the park’s various slopes, marked by curved, flat-topped ancient red sandstone peaks and… Read More »
It’s a hot afternoon on the Opal Coast of northern France. On the cape where Le Touquet is short of space at the mouth of the Canche, there is a buzz of insects in the bushes and the excited chatter of children on the sandy path that separates the sand dunes of the coastline from… Read More »
I thought I noticed a new trend at the big international Contemporary Art sale in New York last month. There were more Native American artworks for sale than ever before, and they were reaching record prices; a bright light in an otherwise rather gloomy market. Contemporary Native American art was also included in Native American… Read More »
Grimsby has an image problem. To many, it’s a fallen fishing capital full of hoodlums and hooligans, which befits a joyless and dreary-sounding name. “Everything would have been much easier if the first person off the boat had been told ‘Nice’,” admits Richard Askam. “But we caught Grim.” Askam feels Grimsby have been unfairly kicked… Read More »
It would be an exaggeration to say that Great Russell Street was empty at 8.55am on a summer morning. There are passengers walking solemnly towards the offices, and the lights are on in the branch of the large American coffee franchise directly opposite the front door. But at this relatively early hour there is still… Read More »
Pride month, which takes over the calendars every June, is officially in full swing. Originally held to mark the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York – a landmark moment in LGBTQ+ history when protesters fought back following a brutal crackdown on the gay venue Stonewall Inn – the first Gay Pride march,… Read More »
I arrived at The Store with mixed feelings; I left the same way, although it wasn’t always like that. Created in partnership with EQ Group (Europe’s leading hospitality and investment platform with over €1.7bn of hotel real estate across 5,000 keys) Reef Group (“passionate about design, investing in urban areas to maximize potential”) and currently… Read More »