Many years ago Mary Alice, our daughter Holly and I went to Belgium to meet our first grandchild. We spent a month with the ...

With the clocks set to go forward in the early hours of tomorrow morning - 1 am will become 2 am - it is perfect timing for a new exhibition of more than 400 cuckoo clocks to go on public display in ...

In the long, cold months of a Black Forest winter, 18th century German farmers yearned to hear the cuckoo’s call to herald the return of spring. So they did the next best thing and created their own ...

The clocks are changing this weekend, to mark the beginning of British Summer Time. After a long winter, and Northern Ireland’s wettest January since 1877, clocks will go forward on Sunday. They will ...

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The world's largest public exhibition of cuckoo clocks has officially opened at Waterford's Irish Museum of Time. Housed in a specially-created wing of the museum, the exhibition aims to celebrate the ...

As Ireland prepares to put the clocks forward this spring, Waterford City has marked a major cultural milestone with the opening of the world’s largest public exhibition of cuckoo clocks. The ...

Installed in my home, Bert is a conversation starter like no other. It usually begins with: ‘What on earth is that thing?’ I came across something that makes me happy every day. It’s a figurine of a ...

Back when the boom was getting even more boomer during the Celtic Tiger years, Cheshire was a prime destination for shopping sprees at its designer outlets. But those trips pale into insignificance ...

Precision, multilingualism, neutrality, gold, cheese, yodelling and, last but not least, a Swedish accent. We asked our Swiss readers living abroad what stereotypes about Switzerland, true or false, ...

Update: This article has been revised to include a statement from a representative of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that was received after its original publication. MSCHF began Our Cow ...

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