We’ve selected 4 new albums to kickstart your summer and help you enjoy rather than endure the heat! Da Lukas. Get Back. Groove Culture. Salvo De Luca has been turning out nu disco and house records ...

Greece has had enough. After years of watching Santorini’s narrow caldera paths turn into human gridlock and Oia’s sunset viewpoints become queueing exercises, the country has rolled out its most ...

For years, working remotely on a Bali tourist visa was one of those things everyone did and nobody talked about loudly. That era is over. Indonesia has moved from tolerant ambiguity to active ...

Montreux Jazz Festival returns for its landmark 60th edition from July 2026, reclaiming its place as one of Europe’s most storied music gatherings. The festival spreads across the lakeside venues and ...

Let’s get one thing straight before you set foot in a Marrakech souk: haggling in Morocco is not a game you win. It is a negotiation between two people, one of whom lives there and does this every day ...

Sintra is one of the most visited day trips from Lisbon, which is both its appeal and its problem. On a busy spring weekend, the road up to Pena Palace backs up for an hour and the ticket queue adds ...

Tomorrowland returns to De Schorre in Boom, Belgium across two weekends, 17 to 19 July and 24 to 26 July 2026, for what looks like one of its most significant editions yet. The 2026 theme is ...

Horror films can be a bloody minefield (or is that war films…). It’s not that jump scares don’t work, they do, but when every film uses the same trick it becomes tedious. A face suddenly filling the ...

If you’ve spent any time in a British club or festival in the last few years, you’ve seen it. Someone crouched at an angle that suggests their spine has briefly gone on holiday, staring at a point ...

Nobody puts this in the guidebook. You land in Warsaw, Bucharest, or Sofia, you are three coffees deep, and suddenly you are face-to-face with a situation that requires knowledge you do not have. This ...

The skill involved in kicking a ball accurately over a long distance is crucial in many sports around the world. A look for the record for the longest successful kick in AFL tells us the story of some ...

The balcony garden thing has moved well past the pandemic novelty stage. People in London, Berlin, Barcelona and everywhere else with overpriced flats and no outdoor space have worked out that a ...