Sue hoped a festive trip to France would be just what her friend Kay needed

SARAH DITUM

IRIS walked slowly to the front door of her Victorian villa in Fairley, a sleepy Sussex village. It had begun, she fumed silently – the “invasion” of her home. Of course, she’d been expecting it. Her

I haven’t seen Bill and Jim for more than 20 years and making a bike ride the centrepiece of our reunion has added a whole new level of anxieties to the regular pile of macho, middle-aged insecurities

Think of the Cote d’Azur and you think of refined opulence; F Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night, Brigitte Bardot, Cannes Film Festival; glitz, glamour. The reality if you actually drive there is v

Not many successful breakaways involve almost 5,000m of climbing over 324km, but that’s exactly what Napoleon Bonaparte pulled off in just six days in the spring of 1815. After escaping from exile on