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Spain's secret kingdoms
One of the joys of visiting Leon and Burgos, two of the principal cities of Spain, is that you are highly unlikely to meet another foreign tourist....
Spectator, The, 11/22/08 by Courtauld, Simon · More from publication -
Sacred heights
'Road is hilly, Don't be silly' was the advice by the roadside as our Nepali driver safely negotiated yet another hairpin bend and yet another...
Spectator, The, 05/17/08 by Courtauld, Simon · More from publication -
Homage to Aragon
For students of the Spanish civil war, and especially its battlefields, Aragon, visited by few foreign tourists, is the place to go. We are now...
Spectator, The, 01/26/08 by Courtauld, Simon · More from publication -
magic of Morocco, The
The most memorable thing about Orson Welles's film Othello -- he gave one of his hammier performances as the Moor, MicheÃÂál...
Spectator, The, 08/25/07 by Courtauld, Simon · More from publication -
ultimate reader offer:buy our old offices, The
'A unique opportunity to purchase the home of a famous weekly magazine.' Thus might an estate agent market No. 56 Doughty Street, London WC1, now...
Spectator, The, 03/10/07 by Courtauld, Simon · More from publication -
Talking turkey
There won't be any wild turkeys eaten in Britain this Christmas. However, a few of these birds, which are indigenous to north and central America,...
Spectator, The, 12/02/06 by Courtauld, Simon · More from publication -
Good hare day
In my early days as editor of the Field, I read an article submitted by one of the magazine's venerable hunting correspondents -- the subject was...
Spectator, The, 11/04/06 by Courtauld, Simon · More from publication -
A little snack
The countryside writer Ian Niall, a columnist in these pages some 50 years ago, told in his classic work, The Poacher's Handbook, of one of the...
Spectator, The, 10/07/06 by Courtauld, Simon · More from publication -
In for a duck
In the past I have kept Indian Runner ducks - with their long necks and shuffling gait they provide much amusement for children - Khaki Campbells...
Spectator, The, 09/09/06 by Courtauld, Simon · More from publication -
King of the moor
The red grouse is a resilient little bird. Prone to an unpleasant disease called louping ill which is transmitted by sheep ticks, and vulnerable...
Spectator, The, 08/12/06 by Courtauld, Simon · More from publication
