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Baby alligators and Everglades – it's Florida baby! (Getty Images) To tide us over until we’re able to travel again, we’re republishing classic travel stories from our archives. This week we revisit Simon Thomson’s trip to Florida destination Fort Lauderdale. ••• Florida has a fearsome reputation for hurricanes, alligators and hanging chads, but in this vast sea of crazy, there is an island of tranquility. Its name is Fort Lauderdale. Long established as a place to go for fun in the sun, with a long sandy beach, the wild beauty of the Everglades, and easy access...

••• Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons first opened its doors 30 long years ago, to instant acclaim. A year later it won two Michelin stars; it still has them today. Many of its former chefs have gone on to become the biggest names in the culinary world – Sat Bains, John Burton-Race, Heston Blumenthal, Marco Pierre White… the list goes on. Blanc can even take some credit for the culinary renaissance we’re seeing in the UK today. His pursuit of perfection and his focus on freshness, taste and quality was years ahead of its time. “The first British food I had was a fis...

••• Hong Kong’s most celebrated restaurants are the kind of Michelin-rated palaces to gastronomy that you can find in cities across the world. They congregate at the top of sky-scrapers, boasting views across the bay, with its gaudy nightly light display. Most of them are fine, some are even excellent, but the places that make the biggest impression aren’t these aerial cathedrals to dim sum but the strange, spartan boxes that grow like mushrooms into the very architecture of the city. One such place is Tsim Chai Kee, a noodle bar with all the design flourishes of a young offend...

Tell us your story as a bookseller I had a part-time job in a bookshop during my university holidays. Over 20 years later, my job as a full-time English teacher was changed to being a full-time Dad on Shared Parental Leave. A glass of red wine and an inspirational conversation led to the idea of The London Bookman, a virtual Bookman subscription that I could develop and grow whilst pushing a pram around local independent bookshops.  Four years later, and two children, and The London Bookman is still a virtual book subscription service, but my clients are global, and range from some very luck...

Marvel show WandaVision Episode 1 and 2 double bill review James City A.M.'s film editor and a regular on both TV and radio discussing the latest movie releases While it wasn’t the original plan, we are finally getting more of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Of course, cinemas are largely unavailable at the moment, so the first Marvel Cinematic Universe story will be on the small screen in the form of WandaVision, a spin-off for Avenger Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) and computer-based hero Vision (Paul Bettany). Just in case you need a bit of catch up in the...