3+ hour, 22+ min ago   (839+ words) It's 50 years since I founded Bradt Travel Guides, specialising in less-known destinations. I am often asked if I worry that a guidebook is going to ruin an area and yes, it's a dilemma, but rationalised by the fact that a…...

11+ hour, 52+ min ago   (383+ words) Spain's annual Epiphany celebrations have become a gastronomic battlefield, pitting the traditional rosc'n cake against an Italian incursion in the form of panettone. After families gathered for the feast day on Tuesday to cut into the wreath-shaped rosc'n de Reyes,…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (376+ words) A Colombian businesswoman accused of killing two girls with poisoned chocolate-covered raspberries in her home country has been arrested after recovering from being pulled out of the River Thames. Zulma Guzman Castro, 54, an entrepreneur behind an electric car rental company,…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (214+ words) Cage was an inspiration to Martin, as indeed was Marcel Duchamp who, like Martin, was not only an artist but also a chess player of international reputation. Like Duchamp he combined humour and irony in his work across every medium,…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (413+ words) Apart from a brief, unsuccessful stint as a casino, it has stood empty since then. Now, finally, after a "44 million investment from Tropical Hoteles, the hotel, which is owned by the Cabildo (island government), has reopened. I was the first…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (460+ words) Britain's No 1, Aim'e Gibson won the first LTA Padel National Championships in Bristol last month, playing with Catherine Rose. She is ranked 82 in the world Brits are really getting into padel now " the comedian Jason Manford has even opened his…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1241+ words) On a bright day little more than two years ago, about three dozen holiday let landlords protested outside Holyrood. They claimed they were about to be ruined by a new law imposing safety checks and licensing on the rooms and…...

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (741+ words) For more than 270 years a religious brotherhood in Seville has offered sanctuary to Spain's gitanos " a community that has long oscillated in the national imagination between romance and repression. Beneath the cupola of the Santuario de la Hermandad de Los…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (301+ words) Spanish town torn apart over "4m Christmas lottery win'The Times Spanish town torn apart over "4m Christmas lottery win The snow-covered village of Villa'manin should have been celebrating a Christmas miracle. Instead it is 'counting the cost of a mistake that caused…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1273+ words) For the scion of one of Spain's sherry dynasties, there is a "delicious historic irony" about the Scots once more "conquering" his trade. "The demand from Scottish distillers for large quantities of sherry to season casks for ageing single malt…...