Let’s boycott the homogeneous, all-inclusive holiday this summer

Patrick Leigh Fermor is probably turning in his grave. More than half of all summer holidays booked this year are all-inclusive packages. You know the shape: you’re zipped up, fed, watered, and entertained. Before you leave, you argue about the extras, and then you arrive home, virtually oblivious to the country you’ve just been to, … Read more

The Greek villages that helped British officers kidnap a Nazi general

Bearded goats watched warily as I solemnly saluted a concrete memorial encased in barbed wire. It marks the spot where one of the most daring exploits of the Second World War took place exactly 80 years ago. On the night of April 26, 1944, on this grassy ridge just outside the Cretan village of Archanes, … Read more