We’ve selected 4 new albums to kickstart your summer and help you enjoy rather than endure the heat! Da Lukas. Get Back. Groove Culture. Salvo De Luca has been turning out nu disco and house records ...

Greece has had enough. After years of watching Santorini’s narrow caldera paths turn into human gridlock and Oia’s sunset viewpoints become queueing exercises, the country has rolled out its most ...

Horror films can be a bloody minefield (or is that war films…). It’s not that jump scares don’t work, they do, but when every film uses the same trick it becomes tedious. A face suddenly filling the ...

Castles are magical by nature, but Thornbury Castle is that little bit extra special. That’s because the Relais & Chateaux Hotel in Gloucestershire is believed to be the only Tudor Castle in England ...

WOMAD, the pioneering world music and arts festival, returns after a year away with a fresh setting at Neston Park near Corsham in Wiltshire. The festival brings together musicians, dancers, and ...

The Tado system is well thought-out for fresh installations, and also for upgrading from existing systems. I had originally installed the Hive system, having had it recommended to me by our plumber, ...

Montreux Jazz Festival returns for its landmark 60th edition from July 2026, reclaiming its place as one of Europe’s most storied music gatherings. The festival spreads across the lakeside venues and ...

For years, working remotely on a Bali tourist visa was one of those things everyone did and nobody talked about loudly. That era is over. Indonesia has moved from tolerant ambiguity to active ...

There is a certain kind of American madness that only makes sense from a car window at 60mph. You clock something enormous, inexplicable, or deeply wrong on the horizon, and before your brain catches ...

Let’s get one thing straight before you set foot in a Marrakech souk: haggling in Morocco is not a game you win. It is a negotiation between two people, one of whom lives there and does this every day ...

Tomorrowland returns to De Schorre in Boom, Belgium across two weekends, 17 to 19 July and 24 to 26 July 2026, for what looks like one of its most significant editions yet. The 2026 theme is ...

Sintra is one of the most visited day trips from Lisbon, which is both its appeal and its problem. On a busy spring weekend, the road up to Pena Palace backs up for an hour and the ticket queue adds ...