Archaeologists believe they have found the remains of Shakespeare’s first theatre. Built in 1576, the site in east London is thought the Bard hosted the premiere of Romeo and Juliet. Source: BBC.
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THE little brown pine cone sat in the snow, looking like a single period on a blank, white sheet of paper. It was enough to arouse the curiosity of my 5-year-old son, Anders, who called a halt to our snowshoe hike.Anders stooped and scooped the cone, about the size of a gumdrop, into his mitten. Then […]
As a British teenager, I was jealous of the American high school prom. My friends and I would watch endless movies featuring girls and guys getting all dressed up for this amazing night of fun, while the only way our schools knew to celebrate was to put on yet another set of exams.But when I […]
More Britons will take a caravan holiday home this year than will visit Spain - the UK’s most popular holiday destination. The Caravan Club, reportedly said that advance bookings for 2009 are up 40% on last year. Source: The Times of London.
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What is understated? Take, for example, the fedora. Though it was once ubiquitous among men of a certain age and sophistication, wearing one on the street now will get heads turning.So it is with the Monocle Shop , just off Marylebone High Street. It’s so small and tucked away in an elegant area with many […]
In an effort to find a permanent use for facilities used during the 2008 Olympics, Xinhua has reported that a restaurant will be built on the third floor of the Bird’s Nest stadium, while a 50,000m² ‘carnival theme park’ will be sited in the public area of the Olympic Green, northeast of the stadium. Liu […]
I NEVER thought much about maple syrup until I watched it being made.Sure, tapping sugar maples and boiling the sap might be one of winter’s most enduring images. But it’s one thing to glance at the tiny illustration that decorates almost every bottle of maple syrup (trees and snow, buckets and a cabin), and quite […]
‘I’d like Cleopatra to have shown me the wonders of the Nile’First holiday memory?The first holiday that was a bit out of the ordinary was when I was 14. A friend and I went to Cannes, where we combined morning dance lessons with afternoon beach life. It was great! We met lovely girls, learnt a […]
A ship carrying hundreds of passengers stuck in the ice in the Saint Lawrence Seaway off Matane in eastern Canada has been freed, news reports said.Ice breaker Terry Fox succeeded to clear a path for the stricken CTMA Vacancier with 300 people on board on Tuesday afternoon.However, a second ship, the Georges-Alexandre-Lebel, a cargo ship […]
In 1908, The Spectator magazine called the 33.5-mile Milford Track through Fiordland National Park in New Zealand “the finest walk in the world,” an honorific still credible to knowledgeable hikers — one fan was Sir Edmund Hillary — a full century later.The park, part of the Te Wahipounamu Unesco World Heritage Site, is of jaw-dropping beauty, […]