For more details visit ba TOP FIVE NIGHTSPOTSSalvador Rojo at Calle San Fernando 23 (00 34 954 229 725) is one of the best modern restaurants in the city. The hour-long trips cost €14 (£10), and children under 14 travel free.British Airways, operated by GB Airways, flies to Seville from London Gatwick. There are reductions [...]
It opens 1pm-4pm and 8pm until midnight daily, and until 1am at weekends.El Chinitas, at Calle Moreno Monroy 4 (00 34 952 210 972), is a long-established city centre restaurant serving a good selection of regional specialities. Fried fish is served on different sized plates designed for sharing, with prices starting at €5 (£3.50) a [...]
The largest ch?au fort in Europe is close to the Belgian border, at Sedan. On the river Rh? the towns of Tarascon and Beaucaire face each other on opposite banks Each has a ch?au fort, or fortified chateau. This was necessary because the river once formed the division between France and the Holy Roman Empire; [...]
Fossils of all other crocodile-like animals alive at the time show that they had long, slender snouts and needle-like teeth, rather than the thick-set head and jaws and blunt, peg-like teeth of Dakosaurus, “This is the most remarkable change in the size of the teeth and snout in the history of marine crocs,” Dr Pol [...]
Royal & SunAlliance, the UK’s largest general insurer, is barely recognisable as the basket case that Andy Haste joined when he took over as chief executive in April 2003. They said that it could backfire on the Japanese group because if implemented it is likely to reduce purchases of new games. The retailer makes a [...]
In truth, it doesn’t matter how much money or talent Mr Allen throws at ITV 1, the advent of multichannel, digital TV means that his audience share is bound to fall anyway Today there is a legion of alternative channels to watch. To survive and prosper, ITV needs to find new sources of income to [...]
The absurdity of Harris’s “back from the grave” argument emerges if you cash it for other eras. A man who died in 1788 in France and returned in 1818 would find reactionary Bourbons still on the throne, but the entire story of Jacobin revolution, to say nothing of Napoleon, would have been lost. The sober [...]
For some, murderous passions are the heart of the matter, for others it’s greed and the unsettled business of land rights. It’s a well-worn device, this multi-angled approach, and in Van Mil’s case it feels a little artificial. Built upon the foundations of lumber, fur and maple syrup, it’s an apparently sleepy and harmonious community [...]
In fact most Victorian novelists were perfectly capable of writing convincingly about sex, whether the subject is the Marquis of Steyne’s assignations in Vanity Fair or the male prostitute who wanders into Trollope’s The Prime Minister. Anyone who wants a brisk demonstration of what a Victorian novelist could do with sexual passion should start with [...]
At one site the local people celebrate the cycles of the sun.What is its importance for wildlife? The 40,000sqkm Cayambe-Coca reserve hascloud forests, tropical forests and alpine grasslands. It is host to 900 bird species, among them the rare Andean condor. The 200 mammal species include the spectacled bear, the mountain tapir, the dwarf red [...]
Only the Maktoums can afford immunity, but it is wrong to expect them to suspend absolutely every business principle as a result. Godolphin are perfectly within their rights to exploit their strength in an open marketplace. And their endeavours with the horses they recruit from other yards mean that the public wins too.No stable has [...]
With Andrew Flintoff on paternity leave, four regulars rehabilitating at home and the hardest-working members of the Test squad relaxing in the stands, England yesterday gave those players loitering around the fringe of the one-day side the chance to push for a place in Tuesday’s opening match against India in Delhi. The prospect of playing [...]
