Kröller-Müller – The beginning of a New World
From 1 June to 29 September 2019 at The Kröller-Müller The summer exhibition The Beginning of a New World The development of modern sculpture is...
Gaasbeek Castle for a Feast of Fools: Bruegel Rediscovered
Gaasbeek Castle for a Feast of Fools: Bruegel Rediscovered 6 April 2019 – 28 July 2019 Gaasbeek Castle isn’t far from the thronging city of...
Madeira Quinta da Casa Branca Dining
Funchal in Madeira is one of my favourite cities and Quinta da Casa Branca has one of my favourite restaurants. That is surely a recipe...
Aegina – accessible Greek retreat
Aegina is perhaps the most accessible of Greek island idylls. It’s the playground of holidaymakers from Athens, but has also long been popular with European...
The Farm Brewery – Goossens
Goossens Farm with Malting Brewery Lambic Brewery Heritage Lambic beer is a typical wild yeast beer, brewed in the southwest region of Brussels (Pajottenland). It...
Madeira’s Still-living History
The 15th century saw the dawn of the Age of Discovery, a time when European powers began exploring the world to find new lands and...
Madeira wine – a sweet tour
For a small island in the midst of the Atlantic Ocean, Madeira has a big reputation for the sweeter things in life: its history includes...
Freewheeling along the Voie Bressane
A modern-day adventure in step with today’s tastes, cycling tourism is the latest thing in travel. In order to welcome an ever-growing number of enthusiasts,...
Madeira – a younger look
This beautiful and unique island has been a much-loved destination for European tourists, yet primarily for the slightly older generation. But this traveller wonders why,...
Mercado dos Lavradores, Madeira
It is perhaps one of the highlights of any vacation: a trip to an exotic and thoroughly Instagrammable market is hard to beat for local...
Chihuly, Groninger Museum, Groningen
Until 5 May 2019 ‘Chihuly’ will be an exhibition of sensational creations by world-renowned American glass artist Dale Chihuly. The exhibition is specially curated for...
Madeira’s Most Genteel Factory – Bordal Embroidery
Madeira is said to have been discovered by the Portuguese in 1419, though there are stories from intrepid sailors of much earlier times, that tell...
The Jewels of the High Jura
La Taillerie – the Gemstone Shop Although precious stones are not found naturally anywhere in the Jura mountains, the cutting and polishing of imported stones...
A Spectacular Museum in Jura
In the beautiful Jura mountains of Eastern France, in the small town of Morez, there is a big museum. It’s dedicated to a rarely-seen industry...
There’s no smoke without … a Saint-Claude pipe
You, dear reader, will be unusual to say the least if you own one; your father probably didn’t have one, either; more likely your grandfather...
Bonnet Jujurieux Silk Factory Museum
This is a charming museum, and it seems to encompass most of the original Bonnet silk factory in Jujurieux, a small town in the department...
Absinthe – Green Hills & Green Fairies of Jura
Originally produced in the Val-de-Travers region in Switzerland and in Pontarlier, France, Absinthe is a distilled anise-flavoured spirit made from herbs including the flowers and...
Rubenshuis in Antwerp – travel review
Antwerp is often overlooked, visitors to north-west Europe gravitating to its more celebrated cousins of Paris and Amsterdam. It is, however, a treasure-trove of history,...
Jan Steen Exhibition at Mauritshuis The Hague – review
The Mauritshuis is home to some of the most famous Dutch paintings of the Golden Age. The gallery is a perfectly formed and fitting contemporary...
Charmed lives in Greece: Ghika, Craxton, Leigh Fermor – travel review
From 8 March – 15 July 2018 – The influence of modern Greece on the lives and work of three influential artists is explored in...