Grand chess tour articles
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The Grand Tour
Until recently, I would have guessed I’d never get to do an old-fashioned book tour in my lifetime. After all, I didn’t make a single public appearance in more than a decade, from February 2013 until June 2023. I’d occasionally get invited to give speeches, then hear that the hotel had canceled the conference out […]
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Grand Tour review – engaged couple’s sweet, strange colonial era hide-and-seek
Cannes film festivalMiguel Gomes’s beguiling and bewildering story follows a jittery fiance fleeing his intended across the British empire, and her hot pursuitOnce again, Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes delivers a film in which the most complex sophistication coexists with innocence and charm. It is at once very worldly and yet unworldly – in fact almost childlike at times. It is elegant, eccentric and needs some time to be indulged. The British characters are played by Portuguese actors speaking...
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Rob and Rylan's Grand Tour review: Rob Rinder and Rylan Clark open our hearts and broaden our minds in a genuinely beautiful new travelogue
The new BBC celebs-go-on-holiday show, sending pals Rob Rinder and Rylan Clark to Venice, Florence and Rome on a grand tour might have given you travel fatigue. After all, the aristocratic Grand Tour has been fertile ground for the TV travelogue – in recent years, Kevin McCloud, historian Bettany Hughes and art critic Brian Sewell undertook the arduous task of a free jolly round Europe's cultural hotspots in the footsteps of Byron and Shelley. Meanwhile, celebs from Clive Myrie to Joanna Lumley...