In response to customer demand, Riviera Travel has added ten European city break extensions to its 2023 river cruise itineraries, enabling guests to spend more time in their final destination or a nearby location. The […]
If you watch too many TV shows that involve Jamie Oliver or Rick Stein travelling abroad, you’d be forgiven for having a certain clichéd view of a typical Italian trattoria: mainly featuring matronly old ladies […]
Loveable rogue Francis Metcalfe was one of life’s survivors. An intrepid traveller, a criminal, a dreamer and a hero, Metcalfe certainly lived his live to the full and author Mark Bridgeman has documented many of […]
The Northolme’s sister hotel, Hilton Seychelles Labriz Resort & Spa on Silhouette Island, a half an hour enclosed boat transfer from Mahé, must be one of the few luxury hotels in the world at which […]
James Bond creator, Ian Fleming, wrote about the Seychelles, its “palm-fringed lagoons,” “blood-heat seas paved with fish, “the drooping palms”, “giant sandragon trees,” the riot of underwater colour, sergeant majors, guitar fish, sting rays “like […]
All you brandy lovers out there may be interested to learn that St-Rémy, the world’s number one and most renowned French brandy, has just launched a new global campaign to show just how versatile their […]
I would guess that the majority of us have heard of the Spitfire and probably the Hawker Hurricane too, but very few people have perhaps heard of the Hawker Typhoon or ‘Tiffy’, as it was […]
Mr Prayat’s T-shirt said it all. It instructed me how to drive an elephant and reminded me how to speak elementary mahout. “Pai!! (Forward). “Ben Kwa!” (Turn right), “Ben Sai! (Turn left) Toi Sock!” (Back). […]
Who needs chocolate when you can get your first whack of real energy in the morning through a quirky amber power wheel. Owned by the fabulously eccentric couple Virginija and Kazimieras Mizgirs, the fun invention […]
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