Travel news roundup: Wales, sailing and eco-luxury in the Galapagos …

Plus Sydney in style, sunken ships in Croatia and, cheap city student accommodation and the ultimate James Bond holiday – yours for just £200,000, martinis thrown in

Foodies unite: insects should be more food than fad

Last week’s insect conference: If we’re going to establish entomophagy a little more firmly in the West, we ought to extract insects from the realm of ‘bizarre food’

Burberry hands Christopher Bailey golden hello worth up to £7.6m

Clothing company’s new CEO receives payment of 500,000 shares after taking over from Angela Ahrendts earlier this month

Upcycling case history: from firehose to luxury goods

Design partnership Elvis & Kresse explain how they created
desirable bags and belts from London Fire Brigade’s waste

The art of noise: how music recording has changed over the decades

Technology provides crystal clear recordings of all the music in the world, at little or no cost. But, as a historical audio installation opens at the Science Museum, composer Christopher Fox asks why we won’t let go of our musical past

Silicon Valley: an army of geeks and ‘coders’ shaping our future

My birthplace has been changed forever by the app and network generation