Smart Luxury • 29th August 2025

Why a Burgeoning Wine Trail Just 60 Miles From London is Europe's Next Viniculture Hotspot | Smart Luxury

I was riding a 1950s vintage red double decker bus, but rather than negotiating snarled London streets, I had just left the cosmopolitan coastal city of Brighton to enter vine-flanked country lanes, where grapes were ripening towards early fall harvest. This is wine touring Sussex-style, exploring a world-class viniculture beacon with over 130 vineyards just 60 miles from London.

World of Interiors • 9th July 2025

Fauves by the Coves

Founded in Newlyn in 1920, Cryséde manufactured groundbreaking garments whose Cornish-themed designs drew on the Modernist art movements then making shockwaves in postwar Europe. Norman Miller delves that history.

BBC Travel • 3rd July 2025

Bradford: The unlikely 2025 UK City of Culture

Bradford is turning the page against lazy tropes and past negative headlines, proudly stepping into the spotlight as the 2025 UK City of Culture with an ambitious year-long programme of roughly 1,000 events showcasing its creative legacy and vibrant, multicultural present.

Saga Magazine • 29th May 2025

The highlights of Europe’s rivers –which one is best for you? | Saga

Palaces, shopping and rustic vineyards – our expert guide to the delights to be discovered cruising Europe’s waterways... By Norman Miller

Storied - Forbes • 7th April 2025

Venice | Biennale of Architecture 2025

The Venice Biennale of Architecture may be less well-known, but the 2025 edition provides a worthy companion to its illustrious art counterpart, setting modern visions of the built environment into the fabric of the world’s most distinctive historic city.

Sunday Telegraph • 10th December 2024

This cultured city is secretly Europe’s finest winter week

For the history-loving traveller, few spots compare to Cádiz, Western Europe's most ancient city.

BBC Future • 2nd December 2024

The hunt for heat: Drilling the deepest holes on Earth

Deep geothermal promises 'always on' environmentally-friendly energy across much of the planet - if only we can drill deep enough to tap it. Norman Miller investigates the latest advances.

BBC Travel • 15th November 2024

A 'crazy town looking to go fossil free': Sweden's wooden city that was green before Greta

In the 1,000-year-old Swedish city of Växjö, historic glassmaking heritage is now matched by changemaking as a global leader in eco-friendly urban builds and energy generation.

Countryfile • 16th October 2024

Countryfile - Meet Britain's remarkable touring theatre companies

From riverside nooks to barns and underpasses, a host of British theatrical troupes are bringing theatre to remarkable spots.

The Times • 27th August 2024

The underrated crowd-free alternatives to Venice

Foodie powerhouse Bologna sits 50 miles to the west; cultural corker Florence 90 miles southwest; needs-no-adjective Venice 90 miles to the north. But choose instead Ravenna and its little canal-laced coastal neighbour Comacchio and you’ll find this distinctive pairing mixes the magical elements of all three — but without the throngs.

BBC Travel • 25th July 2024

Lausanne: The Swiss city that runs the Olympics

In the 1890s, when French baron Pierre de Coubertin set about reviving the ancient Greek sporting games first recorded at Olympia in 776 BCE, he thought of following classical precedent and giving his modern Olympics a single permanent location too. But though the Games became a globe-trotting extravaganza, Coubertin still made the Swiss city of Lausanne the Olympic Capital...

BBC Travel • 8th May 2024

Labyrinth walking: An ancient activity that could help ease anxiety

Labyrinths have been used worldwide for centuries as a way to quieten the mind, ease anxiety, recover life balance, enhance creativity and boost insights. Norman Miller follows their past and present paths.

Delicious • 1st May 2024

A cosy Neuk

A quiet fishing haven, the East Neuk of Fife on the east coast of Scotland produces some of the nation’s finest ingredients from both land and sea. Norman Miller explores its pretty coastal villages.

Discover Britain magazine • 30th April 2024

Britain’s brilliant Basketry

How Sussex has become a hot spot for a basket making tradition dating back thousands of years.

BBC World's Table • 26th April 2024

From Ancient Egypt to Roman Britain, brewers are reviving beers from the past

Some of the most interesting beers made in recent years provide a drinkable window into human history. These so-called "rebrews" of age-old ales were once savoured in places ranging from Ancient Egypt and Greece to Celtic and Viking Europe.

BBC Culture • 30th December 2023

The Wicker Man: The disturbing cult British classic that can't be defined

Crime thriller, disturbing fantasy, or folk horror – the 1973 cult hit The Wicker Man refuses categorisation. Norman Miller explores its complexities.

The Sunday Times • 18th December 2023

The European city with cutting-edge art and music — just an hour away

Springboard for pioneering bands such as NEU! and Kraftwerk — as well as Germany’s finest contemporary artists including Joseph Beuys and Gerhard Richter — Düsseldorf brims with creative energy alongside its seven centuries of history.

BBC Travel • 7th November 2023

Essen: Germany's 'ugly duckling' city success

Located in the heart of western Germany's long-time industrial Ruhr region, the city of Essen spent much of the past 150 years marred by pollution, tainted by filthy mines and belching factories and lined by poisoned waterways. But a remarkable transformation has seen Essen go from being Germany's ugly duckling to being a European pathfinder for urban ecological transformation...

BBC Travel • 24th October 2023

Corsica's Trinicellu: Europe's magnificent €50 train

It may not be well known to most visitors, but Corsica offers one of Europe's finest - and cheapest - train odysseys...

Daily Telegraph • 18th July 2023

‘If Edinburgh had a love child with Brighton'

Norman Miller spotlights Dunedin as a wonderful - but overlooked - New Zealand city getaway.