Holland’s flower powerhouse: It’s difficult to believe, but in a small town near the Dutch capital 19 MILLION tulips and other beauties are traded each day

by David Hibbins | Jan 26, 2024 | Latest Travel News

The volunteer-guide in Aalsmeer’s delightful Horticultural Museum is describing his long, back-breaking life as a lilac grower. ‘I started at 15 and my father died when I was 19, so I had to take over, as the eldest son,’ he says. ‘That’s the way it goes.’His shrug...

At home with Alexander the Great: Ancient Greece’s largest palace has just reopened after years of painstaking repairs – and we’re first through the door

by David Hibbins | Jan 26, 2024 | Latest Travel News

Standing in the vast colonnaded courtyard, where 4,000 Greeks proclaimed 20-year-old Alexander, King of Macedon in 336 BC is an almost unfathomable thrill. Especially when you have the place practically to yourself.Alexander The Great’s palace in ancient Aigai, modern...

I was overwhelmed by life onboard the world’s largest cruise liner: You can have anything you want, from a breakfast cocktail in the world’s largest suspended infinity pool at sea to a £70,000-a-week three-floor floating townhouse

by David Hibbins | Jan 26, 2024 | Latest Travel News

This is it. The lumbering, slavering, glowering apex predator of the cruising industry, weighing in at 250,000 tons and 1,198 feet long – Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, biggest cruise ship in history.It’s been many years in the making – and now at...

The world’s best 100 beaches named by Lonely Planet, with FIVE in the British Isles making the cut alongside gems in the Caribbean, Australia and the U.S. Which one do YOU want to visit the most?

by David Hibbins | Jan 25, 2024 | Latest Travel News

These beaches may prompt a cry of ‘shell yeah!’They all feature in eye-catching new Lonely Planet book ‘100 of the World’s Most Incredible Beaches’.Scroll down and you’ll see that the title of the tome is no exaggeration – they’re...

Keen traveler reveals the one word passengers should NEVER say onboard a cruise ship – after finding out the hard way

by David Hibbins | Jan 25, 2024 | Latest Travel News

A keen traveler has revealed the one word you should never say onboard a cruise ship – after he found out the hard way.Marc Sebastian is a US-based TikTok creator who has been sharing his experience of Royal Caribbean’s nine-month Ultimate World...