Travel & Culture
- The Telegraph
Your 70s is the best decade of your life – meet the women who prove it
Your 70s is the best decade of your life. Those fortunate enough to remain in good health usually own their own home, have no dependents, but do have lots and lots of time for travel. The downside is that they may no longer have their life partner to share their journeys, and travelling alone is not always a welcome concept. But if there is a secret to travelling adventurously into your eighth decade it is this: don’t do it despite your age but because of your age.
- The Telegraph
Summer 2022’s to do list: 100 films, books and shows to see
An emotional homecoming for pop’s biggest-selling star. Things have seemed a bit touch and go in Adele’s world of late, but huge London singalongs of Rolling in the Deep and Someone Like You should help settle a few nerves. Hyde Park, London W2 (bst-hydepark.com)
- Evening Standard
British Airways ‘welcomes new measures’ for more Heathrow flight cancellations
Thousands of holiday-makers are continuing to face travel chaos at airports.
- The Telegraph
Holiday chaos as airlines axe more flights
Summer holiday plans are set to be thrown into chaos for tens of thousands passengers as airlines prepare to announce a new wave of cancellations next week.
- The Guardian
‘Better than we dared imagine’: Sydney Opera House unveils its ‘miracle’ new concert hall
After two years of renovations, a room once blighted by poor acoustics and outdated machinery can now accommodate musicians previously turned away, with a push of a button
- The Guardian
Gobsmackingly awe-inspiring: a cost conscious guide to Uluru and surrounds
It’s not possible to visit Uluru and the red centre on the cheap, but with careful planning you can access less expensive options
Evening StandardDay visitors to Venice to pay fee or face fine as high as €300 under new scheme
Tourists who choose not to stay overnight will have to sign up online for the day and be subject to a fee ranging from €3 to €10
- The Telegraph
How the great British getaway became a holiday from hell
Instead of looking forward to the great British getaway, families up and down the country are starting to fear the prospect of jetting off abroad this summer.
- Evening Standard
Flight-free summer: your ultimate overland travel guide from Tuscany to France and Norway
Avoid airport chaos and eco-guilt, says Rosie Fitzmaurice. The summer’s chicest holidays via rail, road and sea
- The Telegraph
The best family-friendly hotels in Spain to keep the entire tribe happy
Spaniards wouldn’t think of going anywhere without their children, who run underfoot in bars and stay out in their prams until the small hours of the evening. It makes sense, then, that family-friendly hotels in Spain are the norm, making it an incredible destination for the entire pack.
- The Guardian
Richard III review – Shakespeare’s supervillain breezes through the bloodbath
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonArthur Hughes is the scheming sociopath in a production of magisterial stagecraft that builds to a powerful climax
- The Guardian
Howardena Pindell review – from sheer painterly bliss to depictions of appalling racial terror
In a jaw-dropping show that includes ghostly abstract canvases and horrifying historical videos, Pindell’s majestic works come together to tell the story of America’s blood-soaked past
- The Telegraph
Venice to charge tourists €10 to enter the city in world first
Venice is to become the first city in the world to introduce a booking system whereby tourists will have to pay up to 10 euros each to enter.
- The Telegraph
England's most beautiful villages to visit in 2022
A lovely cobbled square, thatched roofs, dry stone walls, gardens brimming with rose bushes, a medieval church, the sound of a trickling steam or lapping waves at the harbour, a tea shop serving fresh scones, a friendly pub and bucket loads of community spirit – all make up the recipe for a quintessential English village.
- Evening Standard
Rail firm cancels weekend train services due to ‘staff sickness’
TransPennine Express advised people travelling to events to ‘seek alternative transport’.
- The Telegraph
Margaret Keane, artist whose ‘Big Eyes’ paintings were passed off as his own by her controlling husband – obituary
Margaret Keane, who has died aged 94, was an American artist whose kitschy paintings of big-eyed children became a sensation in the 1950s and 1960s, when they sold in their millions around the world in prints and postcards – though under the name of her husband Walter, who passed them off as his own.
- The Guardian
The horrors of dissection, Freud’s secrets and Deller’s map of the self – the week in art
The dark art of anatomy, Freud family secrets, Bridget Riley’s brilliant watercolours and the atlas of our everyday lives
- The Telegraph
Glyndebourne soprano accuses Dominic Raab of elitism over Angela Rayner jibe
A Glyndebourne soprano has accused Dominic Raab of elitism after he described Angela Rayner’s attendance at the festival as “champagne socialism”.
- Evening Standard
The desert does bloom: rewilding AlUla
An inspiring project is bringing native flora and fauna – and hopefully even the Arabian leopard – back to the sands of north-west Saudi Arabia
- The Guardian
Coronavirus and summer travel: how to stay safe on holiday
With infection rates rising again in the UK, should you test before you fly – and do you need a mask?
- The Guardian
Songs, stories and sea kayaking: a writer returns to the Outer Hebrides
Award-winning novelist Donald S Murray returns to the Outer Hebrides to find the islands alive with natural beauty, Gaelic verse and splendid isolation
- The Guardian
‘Where history and myth mingle’: why a trip to Scotland will light up your child’s imagination
With an abundance of child-friendly museums, bookshops and historic sites, the kids will be enchanted by ancient tales of fairies, feuds and battles on a family holiday to Scotland
- Evening Standard
London City Airport bids to ease Saturday flight ban
The airport is also calling for more flights to be allowed early in the morning and late at night.
- The Telegraph
The African country where plastic is outlawed and there are gorillas galore
Sixty years ago today, Belgian flags were lowered in Kigali and a new flag – blue, yellow and green with a postage stamp sun – was hoisted, signalling the independence of the Republic of Rwanda. It has been a period of great conflict and change for Rwanda, and also a period of profound tragedy. In 1994, the country experienced one of humanity’s darkest periods: the genocide of more than one million Tutsi people, who were systematically murdered by the Hutu Government over a three-month period.
- Evening Standard
Cherrelle Skeete interview: ‘Theatre reminds you that you’re alive’
The rising star tells Nick Clark how she stepped up to a lead role at Hampstead Theatre just days before this week’s opening night
- The Guardian
Serse review – new ensemble bring circus, and scissors, to Handel’s Persian opera
Period instrument ensemble Figure’s semi-staging of an abridged version of Serse was full of good ideas and strong singing