Travel & Culture
- LifestyleThe Telegraph
A booze run to France still stacks up – here’s how to do it
Gone are the days when you could fill the boot – and the roof box – to the max with cases of wine at Calais and make your vinous haul last well into the winter. But shop wisely and that trolley dash on the return leg of your holiday could easily pay off. We show you how.
4-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
How Tenerife traded in full English breakfasts for Michelin stars
As a Canary Island resident, I’m proud to say that times are changing on the island of eternal spring. What was once a Full English-vending, cheap-as-chips package holiday destination is maturing into a place for more sophisticated palettes.
6-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
Japan reopens mountain road after winter snow
Every year, snowfall in the northeast of Japan around Aomori city is so heavy that smaller roads are abandoned until springtime.
1-min read - LifestyleEvening Standard
Venice Simplon-Orient-Express: all aboard the most glamorous train journey in the world
Crystal glasses, white-glove breakfast service and caviar — this is what it’s really like on board the Venice Simplon-Orient Express, says Dylan Jones
6-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
‘Easter is a terrible time to eat lamb’ – here’s what to cook instead
At Durslade Farm in Bruton, Somerset, head farmer Dan George is showing me his sheep. Easter is almost upon us but not a lamb is in sight. Have they been sent to the abattoir already? No, George responds. “They won’t be born until the 1st of April.” For those shopping at Durslade’s Farm Shop, there’s no spring lamb for Sunday.
8-min read - EntertainmentThe Guardian
Carmen review – stripped-back ballet focuses on the femicide
Given its UK premiere by English National Ballet, Johan Inger’s new version of the Bizet story cuts out cliche and embraces the bleakness – albeit at the expense of some passion
2-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
After my mother died of cancer, New Zealand turned my grief into hope
New Zealand is the reason that I love to travel. Well, New Zealand and my mum. She had visited in the 1970s, and when she heard that my school was planning a rugby tour there, she took on a second job as a cleaner so she could pay for my ticket.
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