Roll over Beethoven: It’s 250 years since the great composer’s birth… and his home city is tuning up The Daily Mail’s Mal Rogers visited the Rhineland city of Bonn where Ludwig van Beethoven was born The composer’s former house is now the Beethoven-Haus Museum – his last grand piano is displayed there For authentic Beethoven nosh, … Read more
The Holiday Guru is always on hand to answer your questions. This week his advice is directed at issues around ski holidays, Covid-testing for international travel and flight refunds. Q. Is there anywhere you would recommend for a ski holiday this year? Or do you think I should give up on the idea given the … Read more
Traffic is still flowing freely across the border from England to Wales on the first day of the supposed travel ban from high-Covid areas. The ban, which came into force at 6pm on Friday, makes it an offence to travel to Wales from coronavirus hotspots in the UK. It was described as ‘unenforceable’ by the … Read more
Traffic is still flowing freely across the border from England to Wales on the first day of the supposed travel ban from high-Covid areas. The ban, which came into force at 6pm on Friday, makes it an offence to travel to Wales from coronavirus hotspots in the UK. It was described as ‘unenforceable’ by the … Read more
Change is afoot — almost every day. So where can you go and what can you do, or not do, once you’re there? With many of us practically confined to barracks, does it really matter if you have to self-isolate when you get home? Here is everything you need to know. Short haul… GREECE Cases: 23,947 … Read more
Paleontologists do not have the highest of profiles. But that could change with the release of Ammonite, the film starring Kate Winslet who plays Mary Anning, the prolific 19th-century fossil-collector and paleontologist whose gender and poverty prevented the full fame she deserved. Responsible for finding the first ichthyosaur skeleton — still on display in London’s … Read more
Change is afoot — almost every day. So where can you go and what can you do, or not do, once you’re there? With many of us practically confined to barracks, does it really matter if you have to self-isolate when you get home? Here is everything you need to know. A map showing which countries … Read more
No other Caribbean country has endured such a tumultuous modern history as Grenada. The Cuban and Russian-backed revolution of the early Eighties ended with the American invasion (referred to in these parts, quaintly, as the ‘intervention’) then, just as the country was finding its feet, along came Hurricane Ivan in 2004 to flatten the place … Read more
Motorists have been driving freely into Wales from England as the 6pm coronavirus travel ban came into force this evening. The ban – which was described as ‘unenforceable’ by the Police Federation earlier this week – makes it an offence to travel to Wales from coronavirus hotspots in the UK. But there was no sign … Read more
Many Britons have long been resigned to the idea that 2020 will be the year they didn’t travel – with family breaks to the Med cancelled, weekend jaunts to European cities put off and far-flung escapes to balmy destinations filed under ‘future reference’. However, for those who rely on the success of the travel industry for … Read more