When Daniel Defoe visited Dunwich in the 1720s he noted that “fame reports that once they had fifty churches in the town; I saw but one left, and that not …
From Nasir Bin Abdullah and Sons comes a €400 million mega-plan to attract wealthy visitors to Spain’s famously over-developed Costa Del Sol. The Al Thani Port appears to contain luxury residential property as well as commercial space. …
Everyone, everywhere in Cyprus, will at some point mention the goddess, be it to sell you a villa or a bottle of wine. I challenge you to name more heavily marketed deity. But there’s nothing new under the heavens and when it comes to exploiting the famously sexy lady, the ancients were equally adept. Thanks to establishing the island as a cult centre for Aphrodite, thousands of pilgrims from all over the eastern Mediterranean were drawn to the festivals held in her name, including the four day long Aphrodisia. We might think of it as sex tourism but to the pagan societies of the period, the fornication, rituals and orgies conducted in the name of Aphrodite were sanctified as well as advantageous. Sacred prostitution, mentioned in the Golden Bough, placated the gods and protected the …
The Embroidery Museum on the Greek island of Lefkada must surely be a leading contender for the title of world’s most expensive museum. At present, the honour is held by...
Here’s just a handful of edits & remixes sampling old-school soul, r&b and motown sounds with gloriously groovy results … from uplifting, bouncy house music inspired by Dusty Springfield & Marvin Gaye to disco-tinged Aloe Blacc and funky jungle sampling James Brown. It’s all …
Every day, Fred Schlomka’s Green Olive tour company picks up a car full of Jerusalem tourists and guides them through the Separation Wall into the Palestinian West Bank, visiting refugee camps, social enterprises and – in what’s been seen by some as a controversial move – settler communities. “Most tour companies offer a ‘Disneyland’ view of the country, from a …
