by David Hibbins | Dec 13, 2022 | Latest Travel News
Researchers have discovered another 168 geoglyphs made in the soil of Peru’s Nazca Desert, known as the Nazca lines. The newly-discovered drawings – identified by a team at Yamagata University in Japan – depict humans, camelids, birds, killer whales,...
by David Hibbins | Dec 13, 2022 | Latest Travel News
What do Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the Taj Mahal, God and a bird sacred in Chinese mythology all have in common?The answer: in various ways, they have inspired the creation of the most unusual home in Bristol, if not Britain — at least according to its owner, Matt...
by David Hibbins | Dec 13, 2022 | Latest Travel News
The 20 years since I last visited Pompeii feel like a long time to me, but are less than a blink of an eye in this city’s fabled history. I was younger, single and childless. Now I’m older, married to Bridget and here with our two children, Laila, ten, and Ezra,...
by David Hibbins | Dec 12, 2022 | Latest Travel News
Turning left on an aircraft is a pricey experience, usually costing thousands of pounds.Those who fork out for it expect peace of mind and relaxation. So should airlines make it an adults-only treat? Here two of the Mail’s travel editors go head to head on...
by David Hibbins | Dec 12, 2022 | Latest Travel News
Some years and months are immortalised in a country’s history. The Yangtze flood of July 1935 in China; the tsunami on Boxing Day 2004 which devastated Thailand, Sri Lanka and much of Indonesia; the earthquake of June 2010 in Haiti.For the British Virgin Islands,...