Richard Mellor

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Richard Mellor |Julie Alpine

Ah, summer: that long-anticipated season when city life decamps into the streets, cocktail hours migrate to rooftops and long, golden beach days work their slow magic. Whether you soak up the rays from a river raft in Slovenia — where pit stops to sample the country’s superb orange wine are practically obligatory — or with a barefoot dash into Bali’s sparkling surf is entirely up to you.

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Richard Mellor

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Richard Mellor

2 weeks ago | discoverbritain.com | Richard Mellor

While transporting the coffin of a young man across wild fells, a pony suddenly bolts off from its party into the Cumbrian wilderness. Neither the coffin nor cart can be found. Several months later, that boy’s mother dies, and another small horse begins taking her along the same cross-country route between Wasdale Head and St Catherine’s Church, near Boot. At precisely the same location, it too surges off.

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Richard Mellor