Chris Lawrence

Chris Lawrence finds Burma ethereal with a sense of the undiscovered that the British colonialists must have experienced when they first arrived. But given the extreme changes it has undergone, will it last, he asks?

Every year, thousands of revellers cram themselves into the narrow streets of Buñol in Spain ready to roll in the juices of 150,000 rotten tomatoes. Critics say the fiesta is senseless - but that is what makes it so appealing, says Chris Lawrence.

Chris Lawrence has long been fascinated by the 17th century tale of the Pendle witches, Lancashire locals who allegedly danced with the devil. Four centuries on, he finds their sinister story still very much alive.

The local name for it is hugely apt - ‘Mosi-oa-Tunya’, The Smoke That Thunders. But the glory of Victoria Falls, is truly best appreciated via a microlight flight, says an astonished Chris Lawrence.

Puerto Rico has not always enjoyed the most fragrant of reputations. Hunter S Thompson’s novel The Rum Diary portrays the island as a corrupt hellhole. Chris Lawrence goes in search of the truth.

Mad, chaotic and eardrum-bursting, San Sebastian’s Big Week is a carnival unique to northern Spain’s Basque Country. Add in some of the best food on the Iberian Peninsula and picturesque beaches and it’s just about perfect, says Chris Lawrence.

She is best known for her tragic demise. But in Belfast, people have a different view of the Titanic. Chris Lawrence traces the ghost of this lost soul in the dockyards that crafted her 100 years ago.

Locals deserted Blackburn centre as EDL demonstrators descended on the town and far-right extremists began fighting among themselves.

Deep in snowy forests near Helsinki, Finnish artist Janne Parviainen has capture these eerie skeletons.

The Shakesperean actor has agreed to the demands of a Facebook campaign by recording a voice-over for sat nav firm, TomTom.

WPCs from Cambridgeshire would be able to respond to calls of nature while on patrol if the ‘Shewees’ are given the go ahead by police chiefs.