Reading Time: 5 minutes Sixty years ago, John Lennon’s mother Julia was killed. He never got over the loss and you can find echos of her influence in Liverpool
Category: Things to do in Europe
Fado’s heartfelt strains infuse Portuguese life
Reading Time: 4 minutes The wistful working people’s music traces its roots to class struggles, but is now widely embraced – and is a soundtrack for everything, including haircuts
The meaning is sometimes lost in translation
Reading Time: 4 minutes The tradition of mangling English in restaurants, hotels and public places continues
A town-to-town hike along the Ligurian Sea
Reading Time: 3 minutes Cinque Terra offers astonishing vistas of beauty and a rigorous test of your hiking fitness
Discovering Monet’s lifelong fascination with architecture
Reading Time: 4 minutes London’s National Gallery exhibit offers rare glimpses into the artist’s examination of the play of light on human structures
Giverny and Monet’s Gardens
Reading Time: 3 minutes TRAVEL: Stop in Giverny at least for a few hours to wander among Monet’s gardens and you’ll feel like you’ve entered one of his paintings
Lithuania a country caught between two worlds
Reading Time: 4 minutes A letter from Lithuania: Its history is one of struggle and compromise. Now it’s looking to the future and its options with caution
A minibus ramble through Scottish Highland history
Reading Time: 4 minutes As our minibus pulled to a stop, I felt suddenly that my grandmother’s love of the Highland landscape was surrounding us all
The hardships of Orkney link to Canada’s early days
Reading Time: 4 minutes Displaced from their homes, many citizens of the Orkney islands ended up in Canada working for the Hudson Bay Company
Decoding Orkney by channelling the subtle Norse air
Reading Time: 4 minutes A Scottish contribution to Canada’s Arctic genome can be found in the deep history of these remote islands