Learning a new language during lockdown will prepare you for future travels, helping you to have a more immersive and enriching experience of your destination when it’s safe to travel abroad again. Learning a foreign language will also keep you engaged and keep any anxiety at bay while you’re staying at home or in quarantine. … Read more
Joe Sidek, Georgetown Festival Director, says the Georgetown Festival is “no longer about the festival, it’s about what the festival can do” – from educate and inspire to placing ideas about land and humanity, creativity and identity centre-stage. We sat down with Joe at the Eastern and Oriental Hotel in Penang during the Festival to … Read more
We first visited the Terror Háza Múzeum or House of Terror in Budapest a few years ago and were so impressed with its cutting-edge exhibits – more akin to art installations than museum displays – that we had to return this trip. We’ve been avoiding the top 10 sights and must-do monuments on our grand tour … Read more
There’s no denying the Grand Tour was partly a summer holiday, the grand tourists leaving England, and later America, to travel to The Continent, invariably crossing the Alps to spend some months in the sunshine in Italy – under a parasol of course. But the Grand Tour was about so much more than lazing among … Read more