Tangier: Hidden treasure
William Cook finds magic in the alleys of the medina
Slow Train to Switzerland, by Diccon Bewes - review
In 1863, the pioneering travel agent Thomas Cook took a group of British tourists on the first package holiday to…
Notes on … Christmas shopping in Bruges
Most Belgians of my acquaintance tend to be rather disparaging about Bruges. It’s a theme park, they say, a Flemish…
The false paradise of Metroland
William Cook has moved to Metroland. He contemplates John Betjeman’s vision of it
Henry van de Velde — the man who invented modernism
In the Musée du Cinquantenaire, a grand gallery on the green edge of Brussels, those bureaucratic Belgians are welcoming home…
Yorkshire: England’s sculptural heartland in the north
William Cook is inspired by England’s sculptural heartland in Yorkshire, just as Moore and Hepworth were
Notes on…Walking in the Lake District
What is it about the Lake District? The weather is often filthy, the locals are famously surly (‘sup up and…
