Ranjit Recommends: Ultimate Travel Wall Calendar 2018
Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travel Wall Calendar provides you with a plethora of panoramic captures to marvel at. The cover image of the Golden Temple in Amritsar sets the precedence...
BANK HOLIDAY FUN IN AND AROUND STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
By Ann Evans Follow me on Twitter: Photos: Rob Tysall. Tysall’s Photography Bank Holiday Weekend is fast approaching. Ann Evans discovers lots to do...
TANKS, TRUCKS AND FIREPOWER SHOW IS BACK!
By Ann Evans Follow me on Twitter: Photos by Rob Tysall, Tysall’s Photography. The most exciting show you can visit over this Bank Holiday weekend is The Tanks,...
TRAINS, TOYS AND BURTON’S BEER
By Ann Evans Follow on Twitter: Photos by Rob Tysall, Tysall’s Photography. As the Burton Railway Society prepare to hold their 2nd annual Toy and Train Collector’s...
HAPPY HOLIDAYS AT IRONBRIDGE
By Ann Evans Follow me on Twitter: For family days out which are fun, interesting and enlightening, take the kids along to the Ironbridge Gorge Museums in Telford,...
CLASSIC CARS GALORE!
By Ann Evans If motors are your thing, the British Motor Museum has two great events coming up that you won’t want to miss. On Sunday 6th August...
Experts ‘Concerned’ Because Long Valley Caldera Volcano Is ‘Moving’ – High Number Of Earthquakes ‘Indicators Of Pending Volcanic Eruption’
Long Valley Caldera near Mammoth Lakes has experts “concerned” because over the last 100 days the volcano has been “acting up” as NewsPrepper describes it and the unusual amount of Earthquakes that have...
LLANFAIR LINE’S AFRICAN TRAIN TOUR
By Ann Evans Lovers of old steam locos won’t want to miss the opportunity of getting up close to the Hunslet 2-6-2T locomotive No. 85, built in 1954...
BARGAIN HUNT AT MOTOR MUSEUM
By Ann Evans The BBC will be filming their popular TV programme ‘Bargain Hunt’ at the British Motor Museum next Sunday 9th July. Presenter Anita Manning and two experts,...
El Ghriba, Djerba Island, Tunisia, where Jews & Muslims Celebrate Together.
Djerba is an island off the coast of Tunisia. It’s the largest island in North Africa. The sun shines there 324 days a year. It’s beautiful and unspoilt. Prices...
Ranjit Recommends: Proms on The Roof
On a side road tucked away in Central London you will find The Roof Gardens. Indeed, upon entering the gardens one will not think that they are possibly...
Meraviglia, a brand new and astonishing cruise ship launched with great fanfare – World Meanderings (n°43)
By Annick Dournes & Frederic de Poligny Meraviglia means marvel and it’s the well deserved name of the new MSC cruise ship that cumulates all superlatives: 315...
STARS READY TO SHINE IN BIRMINGHAM
By Ann Evans For anyone who has visited a Cosplay, comic con type of event, they will know that it’s pretty normal to bump into Superman, Supergirl...
Malta Diary Bring out The Gladiators – waiting for “the Mother of all Battles”
Maltese General Elections are ALWAYS fiercely contested – without exception – and the snap election called for Saturday, 3rd June certainly one of the fiercest. In islands where...
SHIVER ME TIMBERS
By Ann Evans Hatton Adventure World nestled in the beautiful Warwickshire countryside might be a long way from the sea, but that’s not stopping them from hosting a...
BRINGING HISTORY TO LIFE AT IRONBRIDGE
By Ann Evans Photos courtesy of Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust It will be full steam ahead at Ironbridge Gorge and Blists Hill Victorian Town in...
Blurring of the lines for Vauxhall’s Crossland X
IAIN ROBERTSON Set for unveiling in July, Iain Robertson has managed to grab an exclusive close-up look at Vauxhall’s new entrant in the B-segment of the SUV market...
WENDY’S WEEK Books and computers!
Well for me Easter came and went on a floating mist without me even noticing, and although I promised to tell you more about Rye this week, I hope...
From tyre depth to table height – behind the scenes at BTCC
IAIN ROBERTSON Tune in to ITV4 on scheduled Sundays throughout the year and you will view an entire day’s racecard from any one of several of the nation’s...
A GATHERING OF THE GREATEST CRIMINAL MINDS!
By Ann Evans If you’re involved with crime – reading, writing and watching that is! Then you won’t want to miss the 2017 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival...
SPRINGTIME FUN AT THE BRITISH MOTOR MUSEUM
By Ann Evans While the British Motor Museum at Gaydon is open nearly all year round there’s lots of new things to do and see this Spring....
New Swift is, as Swift does, and Suzuki delivers
IAIN ROBERTSON The current Swift outline has been around since 2005, with over 1m selling in Europe, which Iain Robertson suggests is fine for a niche player like...
Beatles lovers, get your credit card ready! – Meanderings through France n° 108
By Annick Dournes and Frederic de Poligny On Saturday 18 March, the Parisian saleroom Drouot is organizing a big event. One of the largest collections of Beatles...
STEAMPUNK AND SUPERSTARS
By Ann Evans Photos courtesy of Rob Tysall and MCM Comic Con. Dig out your superhero costumes and put reality on hold as the MCM Comic Con...
CRUFTS TIME AGAIN
By Ann Evans Photos by Rob Tysall, Tysall’s Photography It’s that time of year again, when dog lovers, dog breeders and dog owners take grooming to...
Will aliens see you say hello? – (World) Space Meanderings (n°40)
By Annick Dournes & Frederic de Poligny The Vitae Project mixes altogether art, science and dreams. French artist Alinore Banon will soon launch a lunar sculpture with...
Have a free breakfast at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris! – Meanderings through France n° 107
By Annick Dournes & Frederic de Poligny The “Shchukin Morning” is an unheard of initiative taken by the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris to make a brilliant...
Secrets from the Sahara The ancient city of Kebili : A journey between the past, the present, and the future.
By : CoOL BuRn Many writing and many studies about this small mysterious place. About its architecture design, about the proofs and fossils found in it of previous civilizations,...
HAVE A TROPICAL HALF TERM BREAK
By Ann Evans Photos courtesy of The Stratford Butterfly Farm and Rob Tysall. Here’s an opportunity to get up close to some amazing creatures during the spring half term...
HALF TERM FAMILY FUN
By Ann Evans It’s almost Half Term, and if you don’t want the kids driving you mad not knowing what to do with their free time,...
Forgotten Landscapes
This collective exhibition has taken its creator, Mark Magro, months of planning and hard work, as he collaborated with the four of us artists (Caroline Said Lawrence, Marika Borg,...
Get chocolate in Brussels during the “Chocolate Weeks” – World Meanderings (n°38)
By Annick Dournes & Frédéric de Poligny For two weeks, from 1st to 15 February 2017, Brussels is going to be the meeting place for all chocolate...
Ranjit Recommends: Destinations Ditto That
If you are from the UK you need look no further than your own backyard in January and February 2017. If you are from abroad, be sure to...
la Ciénaga de Zapata
By Lázaro Estenoz Cosme Here is another article from Cuba. Remember that you can Translate it by pushing the button on the right. Como un momento exclusivo y...
On your marks, get set, go! Get ready for the fifth edition of the Ultra Tour des 4 Massifs, the amazing French trail – Meanderings through France n° 103
By Annick Dournes & Frédéric de Poligny Registration is opened for the fifth edition of one of the major sporting events in the world of trail. From...
A very special birthday for the Tapestry of Bayeux – Meanderings through France n° 102
By Annick Dournes & Frédéric de Poligny The Tapestry of Bayeux is 950 years old this year and the city of Bayeux wants to make it a...
BEAUTIES AND THE BEASTS AT MCM COMIC CON
By Ann Evans Photos by Rob Tysall, Tysall’s Photography It was spectacular fun at the latest MCM Comic Con Show held at the Birmingham NEC over the weekend of...
A SPECTACULAR PANTOMIME FOR ALL THE FAMILY!
Mirror Mirror on the Wall … where’s the greatest panto of them all! It has to be Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Assembly Hall Theatre,...
Kitchen Calm at Christmas
There’s nothing like planning ahead when you are cooking up a feast for Christmas. My handy guide will help you organise Christmas dinner without dropping a cranberry or burning...
FESTIVE FUN
By Ann Evans Christmas is coming! Lots of places are putting on festive family fun, and here’s a few that you won’t want to miss. There’s a...