Article search results

Berlin: The Reich comes home | Stuart Wolfendale | Germany, Berlin, Berlin

Berlin has a mood of dark chocolate. It is rich and bitter, a challenge to those who live on the edge of taste, who like to bite without being entirely sure they won’t be bitten back

• Read more

Lhasa: The long-time home | Stuart Wolfendale | Tibet, Lhasa, Lhasa

As I walked across the Lhasa airport tarmac, I had an experience not normally associated with complementary travel journalism. I started to stop breathing...

• Read more

Palm Springs | Stuart Wolfendale | United States, California, Palm Springs

The point of Palm Springs, if there really must be one, is to enjoy the magnificence of the desert whilst cheating it of its rigours...

• Read more

Taipei - wish you weren’t here | Stuart Wolfendale | Taiwan, Taipei, Taipei City

Out of the Pandora’s workbox of handy travel cliches, writers are fond of grabbing a familiar line. 'This or That City,' they will tell us, 'offers a surprising array of' and then they will go on to mention restaurants

• Read more

Ten Cautions of Rome | Stuart Wolfendale | Italy, Lazio, Rome

Real men do not eat quiche, drive Volkswagen cabriolets or have wheely luggage. You would think that Italian men, so tightly bound in machismo plastic wrap, would appreciate this but apparently, when it comes to luggage, they think as camp as a trolley dolly

• Read more

Warriors to hoteliers - the Princes of Rajasthan | Stuart Wolfendale

There are now nearly eighty royal properties contorting themselves into hotels through Rajasthan. There is little else to be noted of the once madly brave and brilliant Rajput dynasties. What went so royally wrong?

• Read more