This Halloween season, explore some of Britain’s eeriest corners

Britain is one of the last constitutional monarchies in the world, and the king or queen still plays a ceremonial role in the governance of the state. When Queen Elizabeth II died in 2022, she was bur

It’s been a long mile, trudging uphill in the rain, across uninspiring fields, past rickety ruins of long-abandoned farm buildings, mud slowly working its way up my waterproof trousers. Sometimes walk

THE sun is blazing down from a cloudless blue sky as I arrive at The Myrtles, a historic plantation in the town of St Francisville, Louisiana, around 30 miles north of the city of Baton Rouge. On such

On being told that they had been bitten by a venomous snake, most eight-year-olds would panic. Not Nicholas Jubber; he was not terrified but disappointed by a diagnosis that contradicted his own. Nich

This week’s dream: the dazzling coral gardens of ...