Roll over Beethoven: It’s 250 years since the great composer’s birth… and his home city is tuning up The Daily Mail’s Mal Rogers visited the Rhineland city of Bonn where Ludwig van Beethoven was born The composer’s former house is now the Beethoven-Haus Museum – his last grand piano is displayed there For authentic Beethoven nosh, … Read more
No other Caribbean country has endured such a tumultuous modern history as Grenada. The Cuban and Russian-backed revolution of the early Eighties ended with the American invasion (referred to in these parts, quaintly, as the ‘intervention’) then, just as the country was finding its feet, along came Hurricane Ivan in 2004 to flatten the place … Read more
Paleontologists do not have the highest of profiles. But that could change with the release of Ammonite, the film starring Kate Winslet who plays Mary Anning, the prolific 19th-century fossil-collector and paleontologist whose gender and poverty prevented the full fame she deserved. Responsible for finding the first ichthyosaur skeleton — still on display in London‘s … Read more
Stunning new photography book highlights the amazing architecture of the world’s most extraordinary buildings The book, called Urban Geometry by Andrés Gallardo Albajar, is brimming with stunning architectural photos It is described as a ‘journey through the urban geometry that forms the spatial soundtrack to our lives’ The pictures were taken in 20 cities across the … Read more
We boarded the ‘Edward Elgar’ at Gloucester Docks, landlubbers almost childishly happy to be on the water in fine autumnal weather — and the crew seemed happy to greet us. We were the first people to board the boat since the dreaded virus confined us to barracks, so there was a sense of liberation all … Read more
Would you dare stay here? The spooky 15th-century Scottish holiday castle that has a ‘murder hole’ and a pit prison under a trapdoor (and yes, some say it’s haunted) Law Castle, in West Kilbride, was built in the 15th century for Princess Mary The five-floor castle can sleep up to 14 people across its six … Read more
It’s known as Devil’s Island, but as these pictures show it looks just heavenly – and it could all be yours for £2.5million. What you get for that big spend is an island ‘perfectly positioned’ in the middle of Norway’s Sørfjorden (Osterøy) that comes with 23 acres of woods, meadows and pathways and 30 buildings – … Read more
While planning the day at breakfast, there’s an elephant in the room. In this particular case the elephant takes the form of the steeply sided and flat-topped Long Mynd, one of the burly bigger brothers that make up the Shropshire Hills, a string of heather topped mounds and ridges that dominate the Welsh borderland skyline … Read more
As one of the leading figures in British motor racing, I was intrigued to know what car David Jenkins would send to pick me up to take me to his Idle Rocks hotel on Cornwall’s glorious Roseland Peninsula. He did not disappoint. I had my first ride in an electric Tesla car, which glided through … Read more
Exclusive for Mail On Sunday readers: Sail to the Northern Lights with Sir Ranulph Fiennes By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 12:13 BST, 14 October 2020 | Updated: 12:13 BST, 14 October 2020 Seeing the otherworldly light show of the Northern Lights in the Arctic Circle is one of nature’s unforgettable experiences. And there is … Read more