Somewhere between a museum, a fever dream, and a love letter to the open road, lies the most gloriously excessive private collection in America. Just west of Houston, Texas, I turned onto a small country lane. The place looked downright sedate. Even the old windmill seemed sleepy, turning languidly despite an impending storm. I lurched…
From mist-filled forests and vertiginous trails to cliff-edge campsites and cloud-level sunrises, Ines Luque uncovers some of Madeira’s wildest landscapes — and its quietest moments. Camping in Madeira is not the obvious choice. This Atlantic island is better known for cruise ships and cliff-hugging hotels than for tents pitched beneath the stars. But for travellers…
For as long as I can remember, the sea has whispered to me. Not just the endless horizon, but the pull of sail and rigging, the creak of a wooden deck, the thrill of wind as an engine. At school, while my English master valiantly battled to keep me focused – I was away with…
If you visit a city well-known for making hardened-steel knives and swords make sure you don’t get stopped carrying a reproduction antique sidearm. Like most people, we do like to buy holiday souvenirs. The odd oil painting or restored cherub – and it was this which led us into a trap in Spain. The beautiful…
“Cleiv?” “Nope.” “Collins or Lodgegrass?” “Nope. Those are gone, too. But there’s one in Wyola that still has the logo on the north side of the elevator,” Bruce Selyem says. We’re talking grain elevators. Those unique buildings that once dominated the country skyline across the Great Plains of the US and Canada – up to 30,000 of them…
The weather forecast for the weekend was appalling and worrying, not least since members of the family were gathering from various points of the compass – London, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Yorkshire – at an Oxfordshire hotel for a post-Christmas get-together. The thinking was that since the hotel we had chosen in two previous years for…
The old town of Salzburg is a musical box of delights If you were to capture a winter wonderland in a snow globe it would probably look like Salzburg with its sparkling year-round attractions for weekenders and holidaymakers. The old town south of the river is full of enchantment, especially at Christmas when markets abound…
It was a visit twice delayed by COVID-19, caught by my wife working in a central London hospital, but worth the two-year wait. Cresting the last winding road across the North Yorkshire Moors, much of it through deep surface water and battered by typical blustery moorland conditions, our eventual arrival at Runswick Bay, a former…