The awe-inspiring winners of a prestigious nature photo contest, from a shot of a crocodile attack to a picture of a prancing polar bear cub… which is YOUR favourite?

by David Hibbins | Sep 8, 2023 | Latest Travel News

Dramatic cloud formations over a Chilean mountainscape, a crocodile devouring a wildebeest and a polar bear cub prancing over an ice shelf.These are some of the scenes captured by the winners of All About Photo (AAP) magazine’s nature photography contest, a...

Watershed moment for aviation: World’s first piloted flight in a plane powered by liquid hydrogen takes place

by David Hibbins | Sep 8, 2023 | Latest Travel News

The ‘hydrogen barrier’ has been broken.In a watershed moment for aviation, the world’s first piloted flights of an electric aircraft powered by liquid hydrogen have taken place.H2fly, a developer of hydrogen-electric powertrain systems for aircraft...

Our ‘four-star’ Bulgarian hotel was like an abandoned building from the 1970s, with exposed live wires hanging at child’s height, dangerous paving…it was a depressing place to be – we’re so angry and upset

by David Hibbins | Sep 8, 2023 | Latest Travel News

A couple from Hull have been left angry and upset by the ‘depressing’ state of their four-star hotel during a trip to Bulgaria.They described the hotel as being like ‘an abandoned building from the 1970s’, claiming to have seen live cables...

On the trail of Agatha Christie: The writer called this tranquil Oxfordshire town home for 40 years – and now it’s celebrating her with a statue

by David Hibbins | Sep 8, 2023 | Latest Travel News

Fame, as some self-pitying stars routinely complain, comes with plenty of drawbacks. The wealth, glamour and adoration tempered by the dreary pressure of relentless public interest.So it was refreshing to discover on our trip to Wallingford in Oxfordshire that when...

I quit my job and took my children out of school for a year to travel across the world in a motorhome – our family is so much closer now

by David Hibbins | Sep 8, 2023 | Latest Travel News

A British father has revealed how he and his wife quit his jobs and removed their children from school to travel around the world for a year.The Taylor family, from Wigan, made the decision after father Steve saw motorhomes while camping and began fantasising about...

The FISH DOORBELL internet users can ‘ring’ to help marine life along on their migration journey (and it’s made a huge splash on the internet)

by David Hibbins | Sep 7, 2023 | Latest Travel News

Sometimes surfing the net can take you to fascinating plaices.A ‘fish doorbell’ website is taking the internet by storm, with more than eight million internet users checking out the site this year alone. What’s the hook? The site live streams footage from an...