Category Archives: Travel Tips
Hope Street Hotel, Liverpool: review
Not so keen Useful considerations played 2nd fiddle to aesthetics in our rest room, which lost points for a temperamental, touch-activated spotlight dimmer switch and a poorly positioned walk-in rain shower which drenched the floor. The rooms Light and spacious. All 89 have free Wi-Fi, flat-screen televisions, tea/coffee producing facilities and mineral water. Numerous have … Continue reading
Travel advice: traveller’s cheques; Inca Trail permits; Scotland’s Western Isles; passport expiry
On the day you acquired your traveller\'s cheques the trade charge applied by credit card suppliers for processing euro transactions was hovering all around €1.14 to the pound although the Post Workplace was selling income euros for €1.09 and euro traveller\'s cheques for €1.17. Your spouse, utilizing her Publish Office credit card, received the €1.14 … Continue reading
Marco Pierre White’s holiday heaven and hell
The body of workers have also been there for years, which i think is in point of fact important in a hotel the similar receptionists, the same managers, the same doormen, the same waiting body of workers make you are feeling at house The Chateau Marmont is the most glamorous spot in los angeles and … Continue reading
Part of Air France black box found
The airplane's Flight Data Recorder was found without the Crash Survivable Memory Unit that contains the key data Photo: AFP France's Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA) said the chassis that held one of the recorders was found a day after a salvage ship began working to retrieve bodies and recently discovered wreckage using Remora submarines. … Continue reading
Kenya and Ethiopia: Into the Great Rift Valley
Marabou storks barely stirred on their treetop roosts as our safari truck rumbled out of Nairobi, the start of our journey tracing the eastern arm of Africa's Great Rift Valley through remote northern Kenya and into Ethiopia. Two hours later, we gazed from the escarpment down into the valley's golden-grassed infinity, struggling to take in … Continue reading
Hotels in Portugal: four of the best
Four of the best hotels in Portugal, chosen by Francesca Syz. Hotel Martinhal Sagres The fishing port of Sagres, an hour’s drive from Faro in the western Algarve, has long attracted nature lovers and scuba divers but never had decent high-end accommodation. Enter Hotel Martinhal, a chic, eco-friendly, five-star resort located just up the coast … Continue reading
Germany: sun, sea and strandkorb on the ‘German Riviera’
As with the English Channel, an element of fearlessness is useful when swimming in the Baltic Sea (known in Germany as the Ostsee). I used to live in Berlin in the Nineties and swam in the Baltic several times. It was always bracing. But I wanted to give it another go, particularly when I heard … Continue reading
Beautiful photographs of British landscapes and wildlife by Ben Hall
Photographer Ben Hall's images reveal some of the most breathtaking landscapes from around the British Isles - from the sun setting over the purple and green heathland of Dorset to the eerily beautiful Loch Lomond in Scotland. His aim, he says, is to "awaken people to the diversity of Britain's magnificent natural world". Above: Red … Continue reading
Sailing holidays: seeing Britain from the sea
Many people shun British waters, claiming that they are cold and lumpy. This is sometimes true. But their low temperature means that they are full of oxygen, and thus of life. On rocks off Scotland and down the Irish Sea, gannets and puffins and shearwaters swarm in profusion, while dolphins, porpoises and seals make merry … Continue reading
Tourism slowly returns to Japan
After showing us to our room on the 42nd floor of our Tokyo hotel, the porter said firmly: "If there's an earthquake, get away from the window and stay in bed. The cupboard doors will bang from side to side, but ignore them – they've been designed to do that. Instead, listen out for the … Continue reading