Nicknamed the Plank, de Rijke Marsh Morgan’s stark wooden wonder – using timber reclaimed from previous fires – was praised for changing ‘the idea of what architecture is’ ‘This pier,” said the Earl of Granville, when he opened Hastings Pier in 1872, “appears to me to be a peerless pier – a pier without a…
Nothing prepares you for how rigidly parents will adhere to old habits even as the world is screaming at them to change Are we there yet? Travelling with parents is not for the faint-hearted. When you go home for Christmas, a kind of emotional regression takes place. You could be 40 – 50 even –…
Forget what you’ve seen in James Bond films, the best town for this November festival is Xilitla, amid the hills and waterfalls of the eastern Sierra Gorda ‘Where exactly are you taking us?” my friend asked. Stars sparkled over black mountains as we drove along steep, dark roads into the lush Sierra Gorda of eastern…
If you’ve taken a great travel photo this year – ideally with a camera rather than on your phone – enter our competition and be in with a chance of winning a wildlife holiday for two to Costa Rica with Exodus Travels There is no theme this year, we are just looking for stunning travel…
This is the best crop of images so far this year according to our judge, who could have chosen three winners this month. Scroll down to see who receives a £200 holiday voucher from Exodus Travels. The overall 2017 winner will go on a 16-night wildlife holiday for two to Costa Rica with ExodusEnter the…
Following a four-year, £3.5m restoration project, the riverside lido opened on Monday on the site of an Edwardian women’s baths All photos by Andre Pattenden Continue reading… Source: Gaurdian
From the town that inspires Stephen King to Hannibal Lecter’s stamping grounds, or the eeriest of Essex islands, here’s our pick of 10 frighteningly good real-life film sets A huge colonial revival hotel on the outskirts of the Rocky Mountain national park, this building was the inspiration for the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s novel…
Anticuchos go back to the Inca empire but celebrity chefs such as Gastón Acurio are giving the sliced beef heart snack a modern twist Aromatic smoke wafting from a grill on a Lima street can only mean one thing: anticuchos, the city’s favourite night-time snack of sliced meat – traditionally beef heart, marinated in ají…
The home of Dracula it may be, but the forest of Hoia Bacui and nearby Cluj-Napoca, a Romanian cultural hotspot, are full of life There is no one around, the only sound is the whisper of leaves falling. Surrounding us are maple groves and copses of beech, ash and elm, blocking out the midday sun.…
Hannah Louise Summers uses a new ferry service – a lake crossing on which her grandfather once worked – to explore both sides of Carlingford Lough, which straddles the Irish border Every school holiday was the same. For hours we’d trundle south from Belfast in my grandpa’s battered blue minibus – a journey dotted with…
