‘I’m 39, earn £40,000 and have a modest education. ‘This is how I spend my money’ To join the How I Spend My Money program, please email money@telegraph.co.uk. All our topics are real but anonymous. I’ve always been pretty frugal. Born from humble beginnings in a large northern town, I was raised to live within… Read More »
‘Do you ever get seasick?’ Timm Schirmer, a 27-year-old DJ with a magnificent blond mustache, asks me shortly before boarding the Techno Train. “When you’re dancing on a train, you can feel like you’re at sea because you can’t always see that you’re moving.” Worryingly, I have spent most of my past holidays retching on… Read More »
On a foggy spring afternoon in Calais, French President Mitterrand and Queen Elizabeth II. Elizabeth fastened her seat belts in her royal Rolls-Royce. They arrived in Folkestone in just over half an hour. “It has been a recurring dream of statesmen and engineers for several centuries to rejoin what nature took apart some 40 million… Read More »
Breasts have been the focal point of the culture wars of the last 50-odd years. Second-wave feminists ditching their bras in the 1970s come to mind, followed by ongoing judgment-filled debates about breastfeeding and, more recently, more worrying and recent hostilities regarding transgender healthcare. The celebration of female sensuality, which has recently manifested itself in… Read More »
BBCSO/Brabbins, Barbican ★★★★☆ The centenary of Luigi Nono’s birth this year is not celebrated as widely as the radical Venetian composer deserves, but it is easy to see the difficulties of such an undertaking. A few decades ago the BBC Symphony Orchestra might have devoted one of its famous monographic composer weekends to exploring the… Read More »
Rising 2,000 meters above the northern shore of Lake Chuzenji, Mount Nantai casts a perfect Mount Fuji-like shadow over the calm waters. At sunset, the south face of the volcano turns a gorgeous, vibrant pink. It took me a day to get to the top and back, and I didn’t encounter another soul the entire… Read More »
As you sit at the rooftop bar of the Congress Hotel in Chemnitz, looking out at the bleak modern cityscape below, you get a good idea of what Western Europe might have looked like if Russia had won the Cold War. Beneath this ugly socialist skyscraper are rows of brutalist apartment blocks – soulless, anonymous,… Read More »
Where? It’s a twenty-minute flight from Adelaide, South Australia, on Kangaroo Island. Considered the Galapagos of Australia, Kangaroo Island is home to a dizzying array of wildlife and truly beautiful, rugged scenery. Southern Ocean Lodge’s 23 rooms stretch long and low, caterpillar-like, along the cliffs overlooking the ocean. Style At the request of founders James… Read More »
As we turned toward Chalastra, the gateway to Axios Delta National Park, the silence was so sudden it was as if someone had flipped a switch. I was on a narrow tree-lined road, far from the buzzing, honking traffic on the Thessaloniki highway, and the only sounds were the buzz of cicadas and the clamor… Read More »