3 to 18 September 2022 The south-west English county of Devon has sandy beaches, fossil cliffs, small country and coastal towns and villages and national parks. The area of the county that comprises the East Devon area of Outstanding Natural Beauty takes in the East Devon section of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. There are also the coas...

An area of outstanding natural beauty, the Julian Alps are a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps. They stretch from north-eastern Italy to Slovenia, where they rise to 2,864 m at Mount Triglav, the highest peak in Slovenia. A large part of the Julian Alps is included in Triglav National Park. The Savica Waterfall is located above Lake Boh...

It is quite something to realise that, but for the pandemic enforced lockdown, Andrew Lloyd Webber's operatic musical The Phantom of the Opera has been playing to continually packed houses at Her Majesty's Theatre for nearly 36 years. Even more astonishing is the fact that as a Londoner and avid theatregoer, this was the first time I had got to get...

Maybe not the best time to admit it but, I have not been the greatest fan of Agathia Christie. My long-held disillusionment with Agatha came from reading her Murder on the Orient Express as a young lad. I really got into the plot and spent much time attempting to deduce which, of the long list of potential suspects, carried out the dastardly murder...

Aosta Valley, Italy's smallest region, is located in the Alps and bordered by France and Switzerland It is surrounded by some of Europe's highest peaks, including Mont Blanc, which is the highest mountain in Europe. Italy has Europe's highest number of products to be awarded 'Protected Designation of Origin (DOP) status by the European Union. The A...

Osborne Studio Gallery, Belgravia, London 21 June to 9 July 2022 English plein air artist Clementine St John Webster focuses on Egypt in her forthcoming London exhibition. Her new paintings, in oil on board, were inspired by a Nile journey on the steamer Sudan, where Agatha Christie wrote Death on the Nile They embrace pyramids and tombs, small boa...