The eyes of the sporting world – or at least the parts of it that play cricket – were trained on Lord’s one Sunday last month for the tumultuous and dramatic final of the World Cup. The spotlight will soon be on the home of cricket once more when the second Ashes Test gets underway.

Next week, Afaranwide's Colin Simpson – a full member of the prestigious Marylebone Cricket Club, which owns Lord's – gives an insider's view of the ground and the club. Colin is pictured with bowler Stuart Broad, the hero of England's first innings in the current Ashes Test at Edgbaston.

Staying at San Francisco's San Remo Hotel is one of those quirky experiences you have when you're travelling. Cheap-ish (for the city), oddball, one of a kind, and in the perfect location. Our latest post about interesting hotels we've stayed in.

Photo courtesy San Remo Hotel

The U-2 incident in 1960, when a US spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union, was not the only time this type of plane was downed. No fewer than five were hit by missiles in Chinese airspace. For years, this one lay mouldering at a museum in Beijing, the subject of a new post we'll be publishing next week.

Talking about Chinese museums, this week we ran a post about one devoted to Sichuan cooking where Colin rustled up a plate of spicy kung po chicken.

The latest issue of The Correspondent, the magazine that Afaranwide's Sue Brattle edits, is out now. It's the official publication of the Foreign Correspondents' Club Hong Kong, and this issue contains details of the Human Rights Press Awards, powerful photos marking the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, and much more. Read it here.