Now that it belongs to the European Union, Romania has high hopes for the Danube Delta. This vast wetland is one of the richest wildlife havens in the world. Every spring millions of rare migrating birds fly thousands of kilometres from Siberia to nest on its lagoons.
”This is a machine for walking like an Egyptian. This one crunches apples like Catherine Deneuve. And that’s a spit for roasting Joan of Arc.” In its 100-year existence, Paris’s majestic Grand Palais museum has never hosted anything like it — a battery of barmy Heath Robinson contraptions that clang, creak, explode and generally make people laugh.