A glass of sweet vermouth to launch the evening. Order in waves. Eat and drink standing up at the bar. And don't eat too much. After all, you'll be having dinner at 10 pm. "These are my tapas tricks," declares tour guide and chef Arantxa Lamas. My son, Alex, and I have joined Lamas and a gaggle of other hungry tourists for Devour's 'Tapas, Taverns ...

The German city of Düsseldorf is capital city of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It sits mainly on the right hand (eastern) bank of the River Rhine and is known for its Altbier copper coloured beer brewed in the old town and its vibrant youthful culture. While large swathes of the city were destroyed by Allied bombing during World War II, a re...

This is part of an AllWays Traveller series on narrowboating in the UK. It focusses on stretches of the Trent and Mersey and Bridgewater canals in the English county of Cheshire during Autumn. The trip was aboard the Grey Wren, one in a fleet of narrowboats by ABC Boat Hire out of Anderton Marina in Nantwich, Cheshire. The company is a member of Dr...

The FRIENDS™ Experience has opened in ExCeL, joining 'experiences' in New York, Las Vegas, Paris, San Paulo and Sydney. It is due to run until Aporil 2025, and has a series of rooms featuring set recreations, props and costumes and 'behind-the-scenes' content from the show. There are any number of photo-opportunities throughout. These allow visitor...

The mystery of the bones in St Gregory's Chapel, Malta On 12th March, 1969, fifty four years ago, work was being carried out on the transept side of the Chapel of San Girgor (St Gregory) at Zejtun. Ruben Abela was a 16-year-old youth at the time and was helping his uncle in carrying out screed roof shuttering when he came across what seemed to be a...

The Great Wall of China, the Berlin Wall, Hadrian's Wall, the US-Mexico Border Wall and the Aurelian Walls around Rome as well as fortifications and walls around the world's major cities – all have recognition. Malta and Gozo, being humble and small, its forts, bastions and walls are largely internationally unknown, yet on a per kilometre scale, th...