Month May 2019

England’s Lake District has long held a kind of romantic fascination for us. What a thing it would be, we’ve thought, to walk in a landscape that inspired Wordsworth, on paths trod by the legendary Alfred Wainwright himself. There was… Continue Reading →

The man in 12A nods briefly as I slide into the seat beside him. We’re pretty excited; on this no-frills flight we’ve somehow managed to score an exit row. Greg stashes the backpacks in the overhead locker and we settle… Continue Reading →

This year marks the 350th anniversary of the death of Rembrandt and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has mounted an extraordinary exhibition of the Dutch master’s work. ‘All the Rembrandts’ includes the museum’s entire collection of 22 paintings, 60 drawings and 300 of… Continue Reading →

There’s history in Belfast. In the city’s narrow alleyways that date back to the 1600s. In St George’s, the covered Victorian market built in the 1890s. And in the shipyards that launched the Titanic in 1911. Northern Ireland’s more recent… Continue Reading →

During our travels in western Slovenia we were often so close to the Italian border we could have waved to people living across the way. It was enough to make us realise we missed Italy, so we packed ourselves off… Continue Reading →