Places Savvy

If you are interested in art, then Athens should be the place to go to next. The art scene in Athens is booming. New cultural spaces open al...

Parents like to remind their children to eat slowly. And slow cooking has progressed from being a fad to being a way of life. Time to think ...

A Roman road was uncovered in Puddletown Forest in Dorset. While the existence of the road was a well-known historical fact, it had been wel...

The church of St Botolph without Aldgate had a curious show piece, a head in a glass case. The provenience of the head is a great mystery. D...

When visiting London, the first thing you should get is an Oyster Card from Transport for London (TfL). The card can be used on all public t...

Books with a certain patina aren’t always the worst ones to read. If you are going on a holiday to Scotland and have planned to go to Skye ...

Tourists in Stonehenge are not an invention of our times. Skeletons found by archaeologists suggest that there were visitors from all over ...

There are several ways you may go about getting your tea at Buckingham Palace. Apart from the obvious ways as a family member or a ruling h...

There are ten obvious reasons why you shouldn’t come to London in 2012, against only two reasons why you should. If you’re into betting, th...

Sheffield University presented preliminary evidence on a further circle near Stonehenge found near the river Avon. After blue stone chips f...

Besides many other jobs assigned to him by God, St. Michael is the foremost door warden. As such, his churches and chapels may often be fou...

Bruce Castle is a misnomer; it is a manor house in Tottenham in London. But living up to a grand name, it has a history and a resident ghos...

Chatto & Windus published Christopher Lloyd: His Life At Great Dixter by Stephen Anderton. What started out as a biography of a great g...

Approaching through the dense September morning’s mist, St. Michael’s tower looms dark and brooding in the half darkness on the sunless isl...

Knole House in Kent is the family seat of the Sackville-West family. The house came into Sackville hands during the reign of Elizabeth I. T...

Every year in August, the Basel Military Tattoo is the magnet for over 80,000 people. It sounds like an old event, but it started out as la...

Architect Peter Zumthor from Basel, Switzerland, received the Pritzker Prize, the highest accolade an architect can get. Zumthor’s modern bu...

Stirling Castle was once a Royal residence of the Scottish kings. But being situated near the border to England, it was a castle of strateg...