by David Hibbins | Sep 8, 2022 | Latest Travel News
Sailing off the coast of Normandy, Le Commandant Charcot – 500ft long, nine decks of glass and steel – glides through the water with barely a sound.So quiet is this new expedition ship that on a trial run to the Arctic the polar bears were unfazed. They looked up...
by David Hibbins | Sep 8, 2022 | Latest Travel News
An ancient coral reef preserved for millions of years has been discovered hiding in plain sight in a vast Australian desert.The Nullarbor Plain in southern Australia is now an extremely flat and almost featureless expanse of limestone bedrock that extends over 600...
by David Hibbins | Sep 8, 2022 | Latest Travel News
Spas are fragrant places with plinkety-plunk music. They don’t tend to include baths full of lager. But the Purkmistr beer spa outside the Czech town of Pilsen offers precisely that.At this steamy hotspot I stepped into a wooden bathtub with hot, beer-infused water —...
by David Hibbins | Sep 8, 2022 | Latest Travel News
Glimpses of Merchants Manor, set above Falmouth, the lively harbour town on Cornwall’s south coast, reveal two dog sculptures outside a Queen Anne-style mansion, leaded windows and a turret. Is it a little… staid? How wrong snatched impressions can be.Inside,...
by David Hibbins | Sep 8, 2022 | Latest Travel News
Forget the old Mafia threat about ‘sleeping with the fishes’. My wife and I were two steps ahead, sleeping with the elephants.Stretched out in a glass bubble tent in the Thai jungle, we were joined by two giant beasts just ten yards away. Their ears flapped as I sat...
by David Hibbins | Sep 8, 2022 | Latest Travel News
Many of us are not even sure how to pronounce it — and yet this is one of the most spectacular coastal landscapes in the world. ‘Chink-way-tear-eh’ is how the Italians do it and I had to repeat it several times before getting it right.Maybe we’ve all been too seduced...
