Hever Castle in Kent offers a history going back 700 years along with splendid grounds and gardens and a host of special events. Although originally a 13th Century country house, it's the Castle's link to Anne Boleyn, and those tempestuous Tudor times of scheming and treachery, that provides its 'headline' draw. That said, those visiting Hever Cast...

When hearing of the stage adaptation of Yann Martel's, The Life of Pi, I conjured up a pseudo, Bill Bailey style stand-up monologue. "So there's this bloke, in a boat, on the ocean, with a tiger, for like days on end. What's all that about then?" Images by Johan Persson I am not one of the many millions who have read Martel's 2001 book, nor have I ...

I'm Irish. What's your superpower? Normally, I never accept rides from strangers. Yet, here I am in the passenger seat of Tracy's car, a woman who I met only a few moments ago. My wife, Kerry, is in the back seat. "Honestly, it's no trouble, no trouble at all. I'm happy to do it," says Tracy in her Irish brogue. You see, we'd stopped Tracy on a Dub...

3 to 18 September 2022 The south-west English county of Devon has sandy beaches, fossil cliffs, small country and coastal towns and villages and national parks. The area of the county that comprises the East Devon area of Outstanding Natural Beauty takes in the East Devon section of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. There are also the coas...

It is quite something to realise that, but for the pandemic enforced lockdown, Andrew Lloyd Webber's operatic musical The Phantom of the Opera has been playing to continually packed houses at Her Majesty's Theatre for nearly 36 years. Even more astonishing is the fact that as a Londoner and avid theatregoer, this was the first time I had got to get...

Maybe not the best time to admit it but, I have not been the greatest fan of Agathia Christie. My long-held disillusionment with Agatha came from reading her Murder on the Orient Express as a young lad. I really got into the plot and spent much time attempting to deduce which, of the long list of potential suspects, carried out the dastardly murder...