From Concorde to a Romanian trawler: best and oddest new year celebrations

I'm looking forward to a quiet night at home – and remembering some rather more raucous holidays in the past

In The Ice Hotel’s bar, Sweden, December 2014.

I should be in Bahrain now. Or maybe Andalusia. Or Spetses. Somewhere else.

But Somewhere Else isn’t somewhere we Tier Four people are permitted to visit. The British Government’s Pandemic points system for this latest phase of the COVID epidemic is like some weird airline loyalty scheme in reverse: the high…