Author Gerald Durrell’s true magic lay in his ability to uncover the wonders in his own backyard—he revealed the beauty in ...

Sparkling white-pebble beaches, lush olive groves and Venetian villas the colour of kumquats scattered across the hills, it's ...

Ireland’s longstanding Honorary Consul in the South-East of France reflects on his long friendship with the award-winning ...

Boasting Irish origins: and born in India in 1912, Lawrence Durrell was a product of the British Empire and of its more or less glorious decline. The Alexandria Quartet, his greatest (and only durable ...

Sitting in the Ionian Sea, several miles west off of Greece's northwest coast and Albania's southwest coast, Corfu is the second largest of the Ionian Islands. This T-shaped island's 229 square ...

This year brings a special anniversary – the centenary of Gerald Durrell's birth on 25 January 2025. News has arrived that ...

It is no coincidence that the Tree of Idleness stands exactly there, which Lawrence Durrel warns us of in his novel "Bitter Lemons of Cyprus." Durrell told anyone thinking of working not to sit ...