Sadler's Wells, in Clarkenwell, London is a world-leading creative organisation dedicated to dance in all its forms. With over three centuries of theatrical heritage and a year-round programme of performances and learning activities, its mission is to make and share dance that inspires us all. And to create, through dance, a depth of connection bey...

Rotterdam 18, 20 and 22 May 2021 The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union which features participants representing primarily European countries. It is the world's largest live music event. Organized annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) it brings together part...

​Vitali Vitaliev explores some unexpected attractions of the Swiss canton Valais For someone like me, still recovering after open-heart surgery, the official promotional logo of the Swiss canton of Valais – 'Engraved on Your Heart' – was bound to sound a tad too punchy (if not to say scary) in the beginning. The fact that I had – perhaps rather foo...

Andalucía's Sierra de las Nieves is to become Spain's 16th national park and the third in the province of Málaga. Sierra de las Nieves has been a natural park since 1989 with half of it a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and it is home to flora and fauna including ibex, roe deer, golden eagles and ancient pinsapos (Spanish fir trees) which date back to the...

Murcia is a university city in southeastern Spain and the capital of a region of the same name. Plaza Cardenal Belluga is the city's architectural showpiece, where the ornate cathedral, with its mash-up of styles from Gothic to baroque. The Regional Park of Sierra Espuña and its surroundings contain Murcia's largest extensions of forest and has bec...

​Vitali Vitaliev uncovers some little-known Cold War relics in Berlin My first introduction to one of Berlin's lesser-known Cold War relics, the so-called "ghost stations", or Geisterbahnhoffe, was spontaneous and totally unexpected.Having just landed in Berlin's SchoenefeldAirport, we took an S-Bahn (overground) train to Friedrichstrasse Station, ...