Travel
This other Eden
Sam Leith is transported by the finest scenery in England
Comfort in melancholy
Geoff Nicholson is the Maharajah of Melancholy. The quality was there in his novels, it was there in his non-fiction…
Cheap and cheerful
Mrs Thatcher was widely believed to have said that ‘any man over the age of 26 who finds himself on…
Low life
This time last year the postman delivered a picture postcard depicting a village square in Provence. The photograph on the…
A touch of class
Usually it is annoying when you have to board an aeroplane via a shuttle bus rather than an airbridge. The…
Set in a silver sea
‘Tom Island’ — that was the name I was given once by a girl I met on an island in…
Notes on…Normandy
There are some, I know, who for whom Normandy means the three Cs — cider, cream and calvados. But if,…
