My colleague Nick Trend was bowled over by the new Greek and Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. You can read his thoughts on the Telegraph website. But for the best graphics on the galleries, you’ll have to turn to The New York Times. Not only does it have views you can […]

My wife and I went to Madrid last week to celebrate our wedding anniversary. The original idea was to make the journey part of the break — as we have been advocating in the Telegraph in our series Going Green. We would take the Eurostar to Paris and then an overnight train to Madrid, returning […]

The point of a walk in the woods (unless you’re Reagan or Gorbachev fine-tuning a deal on arms control) is to get away from the cares of office — from desks, phones, computers and all the paraphernalia of our multimedia world. So I was grumpily dismissive when I was sent a link to an “eHike” […]

Spanish publishers have been out in force this week at the London Book Fair, where they launched a website, newspanishbooks.com. Essentially it’s a marketing tool, designed to try to persuade the British trade to publish more works in translation, but it promises to be of interest to ordinary readers, as well as students of Spanish.
The […]

If you study Spanish in evening classes, it tends, even at intermediate level, to be language only; you’re unlikely to get a reading list of literature. So, Cervantes aside, what should you be reading?
The XIII Congress of Spanish Language Academies, held in Cartagena, Colombia, at the end of last month, threw up some suggestions. A […]

Our cover story at the weekend was by the former BBC reporter Martin Bell, about a visit to a country where not so long ago he was dodging snipers’ bullets. He had flown out to Bosnia when British Airways restarted its service to Sarajevo. In print and on video, he urged tourists to follow […]