The seventh Game of Thrones series opens Sunday July 16th. In the US it will be screened on the HBO cable channel. Sky is showing it for UK viewers on Sky Atlantic. It will also be available on Sky’s NOWTV, the best option for watching it on the go or without a traditional TV connection… Continue reading
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Liverpool celebrates Summer of Love with new attractions
Liverpool is celebrating 2017’s outstanding nostalgia anniversary. “50 Summers of Love” celebrates the brief and localised ascendancy of the flower over the gun, the pacifying power of rock music and, er, free love. San Francisco can claim authorship, but it was some boys from Liverpool who gave us Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and All… Continue reading →
National Gallery of Ireland reopened and reborn
Restored and enhanced National Gallery of Ireland opens in Dublin. The Irish never need much of an excuse to celebrate. But this summer they have a deep and genuine cause for rejoicing. The restored and much-improved National Gallery of Ireland (NGI) opened in Dublin on June 15th (2017), after a six-year building programme in its historic… Continue reading →
Launching a literature festival in an English village – BeaconLit comes to Ivinghoe
Suitably dramatic skyscape over Windmill Field, close to the BeaconLit venue in Ivinghoe, Bucks. BeaconLit, our local literary festival, was launched in 2013. This year (July 1) is the fifth festival. It is now held in the dry and welcome warmth of the local school in Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire. People attend to be inspired, informed and to… Continue reading →
Corals reefs worth an annual $36 billion to tourism in peril worldwide
Climate change is causing significant damage to a multi billion dollar sector of the tourism industry, the coral reefs of 100 countries and territories, and scientists say there is only a narrowing window of opportunity in which to preserve what’s left of it. A report published in April 2017 put the value of “on-reef and… Continue reading →
Festivals in fields – how WOMAD, Glastonbury and Hay caught spirit of Woodstock
As the 2017 music, books and ideas festival season gets going, it’s time to reflect on those colourful, animated jamborees that break out in random, rural corners of Britain, regardless of the weather, throughout the summer. — It’s the social phenomenon of our times, the open-air summer music festival in which huge numbers of people come… Continue reading →