He's fat and lazy, orange and indifferent. He's Garfield of Ephesus, the stray short-haired ginger tabby cat who hangs out in front of the amphitheatre at the 2,000-year-old ruins in Ephesus, Turkey. He's named after the famous comic strip feline Garfield, who's also a notoriously curmudgeonly laggard. My wife, Kerry, and I come across the ancient-...

Malta and Gozo are two small central Mediterranean islands surrounded by sandy and rocky bays with crystal blue sea waters. Now, 92% of swimming areas in Malta and Gozo have been classified as excellent in the annual report of the European Environment Agency in collaboration with the European Commission. However, some of this had already been previ...

The newly launched Play Tennis App will help expedite Tennis lovers path to Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) Courts and as a result elevate their quality of Tennis with more regular playing time on pristine surfaces throughout the year.Consequently, Play Tennis takes away the limitation of you can only play those being put infront of you – n...

Frankie Goes to Bollywood reaches the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's Southbank (to 13 August 2024) after a short, successful UK tour. A Rifco Theatre Company production, it is a musical pastiche of the Bollywood genre. As such it offers an affectionate, often lampooning and not uncritical take on the outrageous musical extravagance that is Bollyw...

Upon arriving at Warsaw Chopin Airport, I was greeted by representatives from the Polish Tourist Board. One of the first things they said to me is that they want the preconceived notion that Warsaw still resonates with its past Soviet association to be put to bed. It was clear upon the drive from the Airport to the Hotel that the development, ...

A new production of the 1964 stage musical Hello Dolly is playing a limited summer season at the London Palladium. It stars Dame Imelda Staunton in the lead role along with a full cast. The plot sees 'meddlesome socialite turned matchmaker Dolly Levi travelling to Yonkers, New York to find a wife for grumpy Horace Vandergelder. He is a miserly, and...