"It's fabulous because you don't even need to look at prices when you shop now because you know you're having you know ¥ 152 to the dollar. It's like everything's so cheap, especially the food."
Hidden at the heart of the glorious Gloucestershire countryside sits Thornbury Castle, a palatial 16th century property alive with Tudor heritage, awash with romantic allure. Once the majestic honeymoon haven of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, now an intimate retreat inviting guests to dine, rewind and retrace their royal footsteps, this opulent slice of renaissance paradise is a gleaming jewel in the Relais and Chateaux crown. Captivated by its grandeur and undeniable stately splendour, my husband...
Hidden at the heart of the glorious Gloucestershire countryside sits Thornbury Castle, a palatial 16th century property alive with Tudor heritage, awash with romantic allure. Once the majestic honeymoon haven of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, now an intimate retreat inviting guests to dine, rewind and retrace their royal footsteps, this opulent slice of renaissance paradise is a gleaming jewel in the Relais and Chateaux crown. Captivated by its grandeur and undeniable stately splendour, my husband...
Hidden at the heart of the glorious Gloucestershire countryside sits Thornbury Castle, a palatial 16th century property alive with Tudor heritage, awash with romantic allure. Once the majestic honeymoon haven of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, now an intimate retreat inviting guests to dine, rewind and retrace their royal footsteps, this opulent slice of renaissance paradise is a gleaming jewel in the Relais and Chateaux crown. Captivated by its grandeur and undeniable stately splendour, my husband...
Bernice Padilla, 29, has been a flight attendant for six years and has travelled to 44 countries on thousands of flights. The travel expert, from Dallas, Texas, has now shared her invaluable insight.
Yen Soars After Japan Intervenes To Prop It Up For Second Time In 3 Days Two days after the yen soared after crashing to a 34 year low of 160 against the US, when the Japanese Ministry of Finance reportedly spent around 5 trillion yen, or just over $30 billion, to push the imploding Japanese currency to levels not seen in about 48 hours, moments ago with much of the impact from the first intervention having fizzled, the Japanese Ministry of Finance appeared to step in again when...
JOHOR BARU: Two policemen have been arrested a second time in the space of a month for allegedly extorting money from travellers at the Bangunan Sultan Iskandar (BSI) Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ).
‘Such a Long Journey’, Rohinton Mistry’s debut novel, was published in 1991.
Here’s a trailer for a silly-looking time travel comedy titled The Present, which stars Isla Fisher and Greg Kinnear. The story follows a boy who finds that he can...
“People aren’t history,” scoffs Adela, vice secretary of the Ministry, whose work is shrouded in secrecy and subterfuge. This retort comes late in Kaliane Bradley’s debut novel, “The Ministry of Time,” but it’s a telling line. Its dismissal of individual lives reveals the novel’s stakes. If people aren’t history, what is? This is a disturbing statement to come out of the mouth of a high-ranking British bureaucrat. For a book that could also be easily described as witty, sexy escapist fiction,...
I run from room to room, touching things as if they’ll somehow transport me to the past. Not much has changed in the old weatherboardGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMany years ago, a friend from university invited some of us to his mum’s beach house at Walkerville South. His mum had bought the house super cheap before the world had discovered that there was another impressive coastline in Victoria, far away from the more established houses of the...
The yen swung in holiday-thinned market conditions, punching through 160