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Peter Neville-Hadley
Former China resident Peter Neville-Hadley is the author of multiple guides and reference works on China, and writes on Chinese culture and on cultural travel in general for assorted periodicals. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, The Sunday Times (UK), and numerous other newspapers and magazines around the world.
Former China resident Peter Neville-Hadley is the author of multiple guides and reference works on China, and writes on Chinese culture and on cultural travel in general for assorted periodicals. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, The Sunday Times (UK), and numerous other newspapers and magazines around the world.
After 50 years, a writer returns to Turkey’s far-flung northeast and discovers what has changed – and what hasn’t.
Breakfast in Spain, lunch in France and dinner in Italy – with plenty of sightseeing from a comfortable seat in between. The joys of flexible, first-class train travel can be yours for the price of a Eurail pass.
The World Heritage site’s colourful attractions include one of the earliest depictions of a kiss in Western painting.
The Omani capital of Muscat wears its history well, but traditional boatbuilding and desert castles may tempt visitors into a road trip through the sleepy Gulf nation.
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber is fairly well-known among visitors to small-town Germany but Chemnitz, a European Capital of Culture for 2025, is also worth your time.
Home to some of the most impressive and storied shrines in Japan, many parts of Nikko remain off the beaten path, offering a unique experience to visitors.
From royalty to jewellery and serious cuisine, there’s more to the historically rich Austrian ski town than its popular runs.
Few European cities have a history as culturally rich as Weimar, once home to Goethe, a giant of world literature.
Even in the most visited European cities, such as Rome and Prague, there are museums and places of historical relevance that offer respite from crowds.
With none of the crowds but much of the mystique of Jordan’s Petra facades, Hegra is a history-rich highlight in newly accessible Saudi Arabia.
Two hundred years after the birth of Vienna’s Waltz King, the fan frenzy around the composer is still going strong.
New fronts have opened up in the war of cultural restitution, raising complex ethical and legal questions as some argue against museums returning foreign artefacts.
Guangxi’s little-visited Longzhou is a former French treaty port that offers all the karst peak sights and historic insight of far-more crowded locales.
Home to more than their fair share of the world’s biggest, fastest and tallest wonders, Abu Dhabi and Dubai offer features of ultra-modern architecture and an oil-wealth of sights to marvel at.
Old-school travel agencies may be a thing of a past, but bespoke experiences curated by a small but global network of advisers are blossoming
Cambridge University researcher Arik Kershenbaum says that while all animals communicate, they don’t do it the same way humans do – so forget dialogues with your dog and chats with your cat
Refrigeration has had numerous benefits but in its ability to ship food through both time and space, it has also robbed us of flavour and nutrients
Escaping his overlord to spread the imperial gospel, Sakamoto Ryoma couldn’t stop to smell the flowers … but you can, on a wilderness walking tour with Walk Japan that follows his path
An unspoken invitation to press themselves close to a stranger for a tanda, or set of dances, may stop there, but those that navigate the codes and the dance floor well enough may find further invitations
Once home to a sizeable European population, the backwater of Mengzi in Yunnan, southwest China, retains charming remnants of its early 20th century heyday.
The creator of logos for HSBC, the Hong Kong Jockey Club and Dairy Farm, and designer of Hong Kong banknotes, Henry Steiner, 90, talks about a show of his work at M+ museum and his 60-plus-year career.
In Argentina no industry can escape its high inflation, but in Buenos Aires cocktail bars are overcoming supply problems by using alternative local ingredients to create new cocktails and vermouths.
A new book containing reproductions of 127 printed European maps of Ming and Qing China from 1584 to 1735 reveals how they helped paint a reasonably accurate picture of the Middle Kingdom for the first time.
A journey by car around oil-rich, post-Soviet Azerbaijan offers adventure – potholes, greedy policemen, and a collapsed road – spectacular mountain scenery and ancient towns.
As tourism rules tighten in the Antarctic, Post Magazine returns to the frozen continent to view Mother Nature at her coolest from the luxurious Seabourn Pursuit, with its inflatables and a submersible.
With an expected doubling of air passenger numbers by 2040, changes are needed to speed up passenger processing. They may included AI baggage scans and check-in, facial recognition and biometrics.
The Winchester Mystery House was built from the late 1800s onwards in San Jose, California, by the heir to the Winchester rifle business, who spent huge sums on its quirky construction and decor.
In Gori, Georgia, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s achievements are glorified. In a subterranean room in Tbilisi his early exploits are possibly magnified. In a distant spa town his personal bath sits neglected.
Travel articles billed as ‘ultimate’ guides to destinations pepper the internet, but mainly deliver keywords intended to fool search engines. An old-school travel writer shares some tips for budding authors.
