Lasagne pies, a chapel that starred in The Da Vinci Code and surroundings used for thriller The Thirty-Nine Steps… why Peebles in Scotland makes for a great British getaway

by David Hibbins | Aug 29, 2023 | Latest Travel News

Memories of childhood holidays don’t tend to manifest into political battles.But not many people had the tenacity of John Buchan, whose love of Peebles, where he spent his childhood holidays with his grandparents, was so visceral that he ended up standing as a...

That’s not a shed, THIS is a shed! How annual competition has been won by everything from a hobbit hole, a replica of Blackpool Tower and even a mini-distillery – before a more typical outbuilding won this year

by David Hibbins | Aug 29, 2023 | Latest Travel News

For most people, their garden shed is a basic four-sided wooden outhouse where they keep their lawnmower and maybe the kids’ bicycles. But for those who enter the prestigious Shed of the Year competition, they go above and beyond to give a new meaning to...

Terrifying footage from plane flying through Mallorca storm shows passengers screaming and crying as extreme turbulence causes some to vomit – after cruise ship with Brits on board crashed into freight vessel

by David Hibbins | Aug 28, 2023 | Latest Travel News

A flight to Majorca experienced extreme turbulence on Sunday as it approached the Spanish island that was being battered by a heavy storm, terrifying video has shown.The mid-air ordeal left passengers fearing for their lives as the plane flew from Alicante in...

The Balearics know how to party, but they can charm too – and nowhere does it better than tiny Formentera, which has talcum-powder-soft beaches… and just 10,000 residents

by David Hibbins | Aug 28, 2023 | Latest Travel News

The new Lonely Planet guide to Spain is a chunky beast, but only four paragraphs of its 720 pages are devoted to Formentera. And as the smallest, least developed and most charming of the Balearic Islands, you get the feeling its 10,000 or so residents rather like it...

Inside Loving, America’s LEAST populated county – which has 58 RESIDENTS, one cafe, and a church – but boasts one of the highest per-capita incomes thanks to booming oil industry

by David Hibbins | Aug 28, 2023 | Latest Travel News

With an estimated population of just 58, Loving County in west Texas tops the charts as the least populated state in the US. In a YouTube video, filmmaker John Wise, from Kansas, drives to the isolated town of Mentone, which is Loving County’s only...