Spectator Life

A Spanish flag flew on the palace to protect it from the occupying Germans

My wife had broken her heel and I was stricken with sciatica

Tuscany or Provence? It’s the former for me every time

The many mysteries of Emma Lazarus

Rye encapsulates a quintessential sort of Englishness: creative yet conservative, cultural yet parochial

In an economy that favors black economic empowerment, Afrikaners now struggle to find their footing

Visiting Uzbekistan is a huge adventure

Lisbon is the perfect weekend destination to do very little

Hunting cigarettes up I-95

Former slaves who worked for wages still had to buy food from the plantation shop: they were trapped

Under the czars and the communists, Georgia was where Russians went to party

The future of Sin City is the future of every American city

‘You can go to Hell, but I am going to Texas,’ said Davy Crockett. I think he had a point

In Lavenham, American history is unlocked by a pint of fine English ale

The monkeys have become experts not only at stealing fruit from rooms but also at plundering minibars

While his fellow Germans were rounding up résistants, Jünger was visiting Braque and Picasso

‘Poor people don’t want someone to protect them who is old and dowdy,’ Eva once explained

We downed jugs of turbo, a popular Ethiopian concoction of white wine, beer and Sprite

At first glimpse there appears to be no serious backlash against incomers

Some call Chatham slightly precious, too sure of its own perfection. They have a point

The SDF look like city hipsters in an Arab village, blasting Kurdish revolutionary music from civilian cars

‘The new owners employ Army vets for a few dollars a day to sit by a van in case an inspector comes’

I have never been anywhere where the sea has such beautiful colors that change so rapidly

Armed with a lever-action rifle, some elephant-gun slugs and a pack of six dogs, we set out into the brush