by David Hibbins | Oct 2, 2023 | Latest Travel News
Britons like a good book so it’s no surprise this is the number one item they cannot travel without on holiday, according to a new 12-country survey.Almost a third (31 per cent) of Brits quizzed say a good book is their travel must-have compared to only 27 per...
by David Hibbins | Oct 2, 2023 | Latest Travel News
Sitting by the window on a surprisingly comfortable coach, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. My head is full of scenes from the new Michael Caine film The Great Escaper, which opens on Friday.It follows the true story of WWII veteran Bernard Jordan who crept out...
by David Hibbins | Oct 2, 2023 | Latest Travel News
It’s always the same. You arrive at a gallery at about 10.30am after a late breakfast looking forward to a good two hours of testing pictures before a long lunch and, of course, find it closed.Yes, it’s Monday, you forgot, and every gallery from Sicily to Stockholm is...
by David Hibbins | Oct 2, 2023 | Latest Travel News
A travel lover who has visited more than 40 countries uses ‘clever hacks’ to reduce her carbon footprint from packing less than 10 kilos to bringing her own plastic food containers so she can have ‘leftovers for brekkie’ and asking hotels ahead of time to remove any...
by David Hibbins | Oct 2, 2023 | Latest Travel News
Cabin crew allegedly waited 20 minutes before they attempted to perform CPR on a woman who later died on board a Qatar Airways flight to Sydney last week.The 60-year-old, believed to be from Campbelltown in Sydney’s south-west, was travelling on Qatar Airways...
by David Hibbins | Oct 2, 2023 | Latest Travel News
A chaotic Jetstar flight has been aborted amid ‘wild’ turbulence which led to screaming and vomiting passengers going airborne in the cabin.Any sense of calm on board the 8.30am Auckland to Queenstown Jetstar flight vanished as it began its descent to the...