Author: Helena Wick

The wild coast between Monaco and Italy is home to Le Corbusier’s holiday cabin – and his favourite beach bar-next-door

I wish I had a beach hut like Le Corbusier’s. A perfect place to self-isolate on the French Riviera’s wildest stretch of coastline.

The Swiss-born architect chose Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, halfway between Monaco and the Italian border, to build his retreat in a medieval village that overlooks a rugged, tortoise-shaped cape beyond the pebble beaches of du Buse and Golfe Bleu. » Read more

Afghanistan’s Panjshir valley is confronting a compassionate emergency, with families caught inside the tight valley without enough food or clinical supplies, and cut off from the rest of the world as the Taliban assaults the last holdout to their control of the whole country.

Afghan-Australian Mahboba Rawi – the “mother of 1,000” who has for quite a long time run Mahboba’s Promise which houses, instructs and upholds a great many Afghan widows and vagrants – follows her hereditary home to the broadly redoubtable valley, and said under Taliban besiegement, individuals of Panjshir were languishing. » Read more