[ Six miles south of Whitby, Robin Hood’s Bay – known affectionately as “Baytown” – is an appealing fishing village in North Yorkshire. It has centuries-old pubs, a colourful smuggling history, and opportunities to explore the treasures of the fossil-rich Dinosaur Coast. The village is divided into Upper Bay and the car-free Lower Bay. It … Read more
[ I waited until I was 36 before boarding a cruise ship for the first time, having always viewed cruising as the preserve of “the newlywed, overfed and nearly dead”. That may have been the case once, but, in the past decade, the cruise industry has undergone quite the transformation. There is now a cruise … Read more
[ Today marks the 111st birthday of Indian writer and radio broadcaster Venu Chitale. To mark the occasion, the Google Doodle team has celebrated one of the first few Indian women hired by the BBC, who was an influential voice in the UK during India’s freedom movement. On Thursday, Google switched its iconic search engine … Read more
