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For more than 850 years, Burg Eltz has stood on to
Thirty years ago, work began on turning a disused pumping station inside a castle into one of Europe’s finest climbing centres. That goal has been summited, but the work to expand, update and evolve The Castle Climbing Centre continues
I had watched Richard III meet a bloody end at Bosworth, come face to face with a plague victim, stood in the shadow of a mighty trebuchet, and been put on trial for my life. And it was barely lunchti
The Lake District, nestled in the north-west corner of England in Cumbria, is the country’s most poetic landscape. From Wordsworth to Beatrix Potter, the Lake District has always drawn writers, artist
This week’s dream: wonder and melancholy in eastern Turkey ...
I’m sceptical about news stories you sometimes read of big black cats roaming the countryside. I was, however, tempted to don my boots for a hike I found on the internet titled In the Footsteps of the
With Hallowe’en out of the way, Christmas is the next big ghostly occasion in the UK traditional calendar. But what, one may wonder, of the rest of Europe? Ghost hunter Peter Underwood called Europe “