Tim Hughes

Naomi Herring takes a trip to Megève to discover what could be the French Alps’ best kept summer secret.

SINCE the very first scene, there is something unlikely about Richard III staged at Blenheim Palace as part of its Shakespeare’s Rose season.

The driveway at Studley Castle provides an impressive overture to Warner Leisure Hotels’ 14th adults-only short-stay location.

Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream was once described as a play which is better to be read than to be staged.

The ceremony of innocence is drowned...” So sing the ghosts of Peter Quint and the erstwhile governess Miss Jessell in Benjamin Britten’s haunting chamber opera, which had its production premiere at Garsington Opera.

As islands go, it’s fair to say the Isle of Wight probably doesn’t have the wildest reputation.

From South London to the Amazon Rainforest, Mantra is a psychedelic journey into the power of words, sound and music.

Idyllic 17th century Cotswold stone village inn, The Crown at Church Enstone, near Chipping Norton, has been given a new lease of life as a traditional inn, bar, restaurant – and artists’ haunt, write owners George and Victoria Irvine.

With its sweeping galleries stuffed with artifacts going back to antiquity and impressive open spaces and vistas, the Ashmolean Museum is an obvious first choice for anyone choosing a jaw-dropping wedding venue, writes Marie Giraud.

It’s a fairly safe bet that Oscar Wilde never encountered a large traffic cone, so why Lane the butler is seen removing this scourge of every motorist from the set at the start of the Watermill’s new production of The Importance of Being Earnest is anyone’s guess.