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Day 1: Grosmont to Skenfrith (5.5 miles) The castles of Grosmont, Skenfrith and White Castle lie west of the border. Just. For a millennium they’ve hunkered in that hinterland where England shoulders up against Wales. As we set off uphill from Grosmont there’s nothing more aggressive going on than a …

It’s a boiling summer’s day in Prague and I’m staring into the austere face of Franz Kafka. Not the real Kafka, of course – he died exactly a century ago, which is why I’m here – but a cast-iron plaque on the wall of his birthplace. The house, a replica …

Wild camping I was deep in the folds of the mountain of Tryfan when it first happened. When time seemed to stop ticking at the breakneck pace it always does when I’m sitting at laptop, working on a deadline. Instead of blue light from a screen, I was sitting at …

Devon and Cornwall A few years ago, visiting Devon in a wet and windy summer, chef Margie Nomura, host of the Desert Island Dishes podcast, stumbled across Beachhouse cafe on a soggy dog walk at South Milton Sands. “We were lucky to get a table and warmed up with steaming …

All the greats in one estate, France When you have a partner obsessed with architecture, you can’t expect to go on holiday without a detour to see some building or another. So if it’s a city break, that usually means a walking tour of the architectural highlights interspersed with visits …

A hotel from another planet lands in rural Brittany There are many places where you expect to see jaw-dropping architecture, but the quiet Brittany countryside isn’t one of them. As we walked toward Hotel l’Essenciel (not a typo, ciel means sky) with its 36 rooms, or “nests” suspended around its …

Sweden At noon, steamboat S/S Stockholm pushes away from Boulevard Strandvägen; its elegant art nouveau buildings, piped like cake icing, are the very definition of understated beauty. Our destination is Vaxholm, one of around 30,000 islands, skerries and islets in Stockholm’s archipelago. The city itself spans 14 islands, each with …

The strike came after negotiations with studios and streamers over pay and other conditions ended without an agreement. “Acting upon the authority granted to them by their memberships, they have voted unanimously to call a strike,” the Writers Guild of America board members tweeted. The Hollywood writers’ strike has entered …

A bill seeking to amend the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) act to imprison writers of false petitions for two years without an option of fine, has been passed by the Nigerian senate.    The amended bill which initially allowed just a fine of N100,000 as …

Boston University hosted Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav as its commencement speaker on Sunday and, well, let’s just say that selection didn’t go over well with the school’s new graduates. While the invite was certainly made months ago, it happened to fall during the middle of the Writers Guild …