‘I strolled among lovely Lent lilies, wild garlic and beautiful bluebells’: readers’ favourite spring walks in the UK | Walking holidays
Winning tips: Laurie Lee’s Gloucestershire Two great prologues in literature begin on the same water-springing embankment in the village of Slad. let’s start doing …. Laurie Lee’s Circular Walk From the scene in “The Cider” when the toddler falls out of the cart with Rosie, or the scene in “A Midsummer Morning, I Started Walking” […]
‘Rental places will surge back’: readers on the fight to preserve physical media | Movies
‘Necessary due to space reasons‘ In my family, we have gotten into the habit of ordering inexpensive DVDs when we find a show or movie that we are sure we want to watch again (that’s a trick in itself!). At the end of 2020, when I moved into a new apartment in another part of […]
Love, logistics and fresh beginnings: readers on the reasons they remarried | Relationships
○In the past, if you misstepped in the aisle, you were sentenced to life in prison. But since the introduction of no-fault divorce laws in Australia nearly 50 years ago, couples have been free to end their ill-fated relationships (after 12 months and one day apart) and ring their wedding bells again. . It’s no […]
‘It was time to start afresh’: readers on love in an empty nest | Life and style
aAfter years of raising a family together in the trenches, a couple whose children emerge from the hut face a very different future. As with all major life transitions, it can be a difficult time, especially when it comes to relationships. It even has its own syndrome. Complex loss and pride is not a clinical […]
‘One taste explodes like a moon rocket booster’: readers’ favourite foodie finds in Europe | Restaurants
Winning tip: Super fresh seafood in Athens The main hall of Athens' Barbakios Agora market hides seafood so fresh that the air smells of salt water.in Hasapika, You can choose your fish and specify how you want it cooked, including seared octopus, salmon ceviche, and giant fried shrimp. The options are endlessly delicious. But the […]
‘It was very scary’: Guardian readers on how Storm Isha affected them | UK weather
Marina and her partner boarded a 7.40pm flight on Spanish airline Vueling from Barcelona to Gatwick on Sunday night, returning to London after their holiday. “After a 30-minute delay at Barcelona Airport due to 'destination weather conditions', our flight finally took off for Gatwick at 8pm,” she said. “The pilot made two attempts to land […]
‘Prepare for the sunset of a lifetime’: readers’ favourite beaches in southern Europe | Beach holidays
The calm island of Zakynthos with sulfur We stumbled upon it on an off-season trip to Zakynthos, a Greek island notorious for drunken British teenagers. shigia sulfur East coast beaches. Since it's a sulfur spring, the first thing I noticed was the smell of rotten eggs. Despite the smell, it's great. The sparkling turquoise waters […]