Our annual holiday-with-friends usually allows us to experience some exceptional scenery, and this year's October half-term trip did ...

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The Bells - No, not the whisky blend. Central Morzine, French Alps.

Studying Soviet and Eastern European Politics and History in the early 1990s was exciting stuff. A whole chunk of the "politics...

The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin is a place of great solemnity. The designers have created a place of mourning, memory and warning which...

Much has been written (and published in English too), about Stalin's mass concentration and heavy labour camps known as "The Gul...

The Coen Bothers are by any estimation remarkable film-makers whose works - spanning almost every conceivable genre,  are known for their...

Sometimes it's good to attempt a book from a different discipline, especially when its an unfamiliar one. Oxford University Press...

2014 has been up until now a year off from climbing new Munros. The reasons for that are many, but start in January with the dea...

It's over twenty-five years since I have done a 100mile bike ride, but the challenge was thrown down to me by a friend from Fort Wil...