Scenic Relaxation on MSN

Carcassonne Fortress – A Medieval Gem in the Heart of France

Ancient stone towers and golden rooftops glow under the sunset, revealing the timeless charm of Carcassonne’s perfectly ...
The Flying Dutchman on MSN

Explore Ghent’s Medieval Charm on a Belgian Boat Tour

Discover Ghent, Belgium’s third-largest city and capital of East Flanders. Built where the Scheldt and Leie rivers meet, it ...

The deadly plants gardeners and foragers should know about

This is just one of the grisly examples given in The Atlas Of Deadly Plants, a tome of toxic tales by expert gardener, podcaster and author Jane Perrone, from medieval scammers peddling white bryony ...

RECIPES: Pot pie, meatballs, gnocchi get French onion treatment with caramelized onions and Gruyère

As much as we love French onion soup -- and we really do love it -- we might love the following riffs even more.

Women folk healers were branded as witches, but their treatments may have been medically sound

Was there any scientific basis to potions, lotions and salves that folk healers prescribed, or was it all just hocus pocus?

Britain’s diet is making us sick – but this food could offer a cure

If you ask my seven-year-old son what his favourite foods are, he is likely to reply “venison” followed by duck or pheasant.

Genet’s classic The Maids is reduced to Snapchat and screeching

Director of the moment Kip Williams now gives Jean Genet’s 1947 play The Maids his hi-tech treatment. This slippery ...

France's strangest epidemic wasn't the bubonic plague. It was a dance.

Mass hysteria? Ergot poisoning? Or just despair? Here’s why what started as one woman’s dance spiraled into one of history’s ...
The Economist

The end of the rip-off economy

Such developments led pundits to proclaim the end of rip-off markets. “Information perfection is on the rise,” pronounced ...

It's the beginning of the end for Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 as it reveals release date for third and final DLC

KCD2's last hurrah is almost here, as Warhorse unveils new details and a launch date for Mysteria Ecclesiae, the RPG's final ...

Letters to the Editor: Dealing with lymphedema isn't just painful — it's expensive

A reader calls the 2024 Lymphedema Treatment Act 'wonderful, but still the costs add up and don't go away — and neither does ...
The Bookseller

Chatto & Windus buys Timothy X Atack's debut novel that 'explores the treatment of madness'

Chatto & Windus will publish the distinctive first novel from playwright and composer Timothy X Atack, Father Alberto and the Flying Girl.