by David Hibbins | Aug 23, 2022 | Latest Travel News
This is the dramatic moment a 130ft superyacht sank off the coast of southern Italy after getting into trouble late at night. The ‘Saga’, which was built in Monaco back in 2007, was sailing from Gallipoli to Milazzo on the island of Sicily overnight...
by David Hibbins | Aug 23, 2022 | Latest Travel News
One November morning in 1755, Lisbon was seized by a violent earthquake. The tremors spurred a tsunami, which engulfed the city’s harbour and downtown area, and for six days after the tragedy, fires burned across the Portuguese capital.One of the casualties of...
by David Hibbins | Aug 22, 2022 | Latest Travel News
‘On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble’ wrote A. E. Housman in his epic poetic tale A Shropshire Lad. Meandering along a slim footpath, beech and maple trees form a canopy against the sunshine.Those same woods, 126 years on, don’t look like they’re in any...
by David Hibbins | Aug 22, 2022 | Latest Travel News
There’s a crystal perfume bottle on the dressing table of every bedroom at Villa Grabyte in Kaunas, Lithuania.An information card, positioned next to one of the bottles, explains that the liquid inside has notes of white lilac, old wooden furniture and weighty...
by David Hibbins | Aug 22, 2022 | Latest Travel News
John McEntee took his pet pug Guinness, pictured, to County Kerry via a ferry from Pembroke to RosslareWhen Queen Victoria visited Killarney with her adored Pekinese Looty in 1861 the pampered pet became the first canine tourist from Britain. Since then thousands of...
by David Hibbins | Aug 22, 2022 | Latest Travel News
Packets of condoms, a pistol and two enigma machines used by the Germans to transmit coded messages during the Second World War are among a trove of items from a sunken Nazi submarine that have been documented for the first time. The treasures were onboard U-boat...
