The Foody Traveller
This November is all about getting together with friends to enjoy candlelit feasts, according to UK disaster relief charity, ShelterBox. The charity – which currently has a team on the ground helping those made homeless by Hurricane Irma and Maria, as well as those displaced by the Rohingya Crisis – is launching its Shine for […]
Partly to see Christopher Nolan’s epic film of the same name as the city, and also to learn more about Operation Dynamo, Anna Hyman headed across the Channel – to Dunkirk. Dunkirk the film Christopher Nolan’s powerful blockbuster film Dunkirk opens with a young man running down a street desperately making for the beaches and […]
Enlightened Princesses is the title of an exhibition currently running at Kensington Palace. Anna Hyman set out to discover what it was all about. Main photo credit: Historic Royal Palaces/SWNS Changes were taking place in Europe and beyond. The period known as The Age of Enlightenment, also the Age of Reason, was making its presence felt […]
There’s an important election in June and your vote counts. It’s really a question of which party you support – the party at your local pub; the one at the local club; or perhaps it is a hotel bar that has captured your taste. The ‘election’ we’re talking about is for your favourite ‘Brocktail’ – […]
Renaissance Florence and medieval Siena are two of Mary Bunning’s favourite Italian cities. She also has a passion for the works of the sculptor Donatello. In this article she visits Florence. Even though I had been to Florence several times the visits had been short and the queues for attractions such as the Uffizi Palace […]
The most spectacular feature of Britain’s canal network is surely the 1007-feet long Pontcysyllte Aqueduct which takes the Llangollen Canal over the River Dee near Chirk. Narrowboats cross it in a metal trough which has a towpath on one side and a sheer 126 feet drop on the other. No matter how many times you […]