This is part of an AllWays Traveller series on narrowboating in the UK. It focusses on stretches of the Trent and Mersey and Bridgewater canals in the English county of Cheshire during Autumn. The trip was aboard the Grey Wren, one in a fleet of narrowboats by ABC Boat Hire out of Anderton Marina in Nantwich, Cheshire. The company is a member of Dr...

The FRIENDS™ Experience has opened in ExCeL, joining 'experiences' in New York, Las Vegas, Paris, San Paulo and Sydney. It is due to run until Aporil 2025, and has a series of rooms featuring set recreations, props and costumes and 'behind-the-scenes' content from the show. There are any number of photo-opportunities throughout. These allow visitor...

The mystery of the bones in St Gregory's Chapel, Malta On 12th March, 1969, fifty four years ago, work was being carried out on the transept side of the Chapel of San Girgor (St Gregory) at Zejtun. Ruben Abela was a 16-year-old youth at the time and was helping his uncle in carrying out screed roof shuttering when he came across what seemed to be a...

The people of the Maltese Islands lived in a state of great contrast for almost 3,000 years, a contrast between those that have and those that have not. And there was little probability of bridging the gap or crossing the strait from one to the other unless by some kind of miraculous event. Visitors to Malta and Gozo ranging back over many centurie...

The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, Hadrian's Wall, the US-Mexico Border Wall and the Aurelian Walls around Rome as well as fortifications and walls around the world's major cities – all have recognition. Malta and Gozo, being humble and small, its forts, bastions and walls are largely internationally unknown, yet on a per kilometre scale, th...

"I have been visiting the prehistoric ruins all round the Mediterranean, from Mesopotamia to Egypt, Greece and Switzerland, but I have nowhere seen places as old as these." So wrote V. Gordon Childe, the former Professor of Prehistoric European Archaeology from London University's Institute of Archaeology, after visiting Malta's Ħaġar Qim and other...