by David Hibbins | May 4, 2023 | Latest Travel News
The 10 most annoying things that people do on holiday have been revealed in a survey – and it’s being rude to airline staff on a plane that’s the No.1 irritation.The list was generated by those polled being asked to rank irksome holiday behaviours on...
by David Hibbins | May 4, 2023 | Latest Travel News
With missions to the International Space Station (ISS) now the norm and Elon Musk talking about going to Mars, it’s often hard to imagine that just 65 years ago no human had ever been to space.For 300,000 years we walked the Earth but it wasn’t until 1961...
by David Hibbins | May 4, 2023 | Latest Travel News
With a total of 19 museums and the National Zoo under its umbrella, the Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex.And it harbours a commensurate number of mysteries, secrets and amazing artefacts. Scroll down for...
by David Hibbins | May 4, 2023 | Latest Travel News
‘Every piece of this island is so stunning, that sometimes we can’t believe it’s real.’So says photographer Karol Kru, who has been capturing spellbinding pictures of the Portuguese island of Madeira since he moved there with his wife, Mary, last year.Karol, 31, says...
by David Hibbins | May 4, 2023 | Latest Travel News
A property on the south coast once owned by the composer of the Desert Island Discs theme tune is up for grabs.The five-bedroom semi-detached house is in the seaside West Sussex village of Aldwick.It has a blue plaque on an external entrance wall showing that the...
by David Hibbins | May 3, 2023 | Latest Travel News
Want to know about the history of Sherwood Forest? Then come and ask the Major Oak. It is the biggest living organism in Britain, an immense, squat Sumo wrestler of a tree, with a girth of 36ft.The Major Oak may have been alive in the reign of King John in the 12th...
