Author: Luke O Driscoll “If it was good enough for ol’ Enid Blyton it’ll be good enough for us,” I tell the Iranian girlfriend on the four-hour drive from South London to the Knoll House Hotel, located on the Dorset coast. It was half a century back the author pronounced...
To celebrate International Women's Day, TLE caught up with inspirational writer and adventurer Lois Pryce, who quit her job at the BBC in 2003 to ride her motorbike from Alaska to the tip of South America. Tell us a little bit about you? Lois Pryce - author, travel writer, banjo...
What is Van Life? Or rather, what is #VanLife? Some of the more ardent Instagram users will probably already know all about #VanLife. But for the not-so-social-media-aware, Van Life is a community of people - often slim, attractive, bohemian-looking, millennials - who document their nomadic journeys around the world, in converted...
Feeling inspired by the Winter Olympics? Think you could become the next Billy Morgan? Annndd relax... it's not as easy as it looks. Hitting the slopes for the first time is far from a piece of cake. Unless you are some kind of sporting maverick, you'll probably spend most of...
Eco-conscious Akaryn Hotel Group announces its new hotel, akyra TAS Sukhumvit Bangkok, will be the first single-use plastic-free hotel in Asia. On the back of David Attenborough's Blue Planet II documentary series, which highlighted the extreme level of plastic waste in the ocean, a continuing number of businesses have begun banning single-use...
There's something special about seeing someone in cabin crew uniform. Like when you see a flight attendant striding through the airport and you stop and stare. But how have cabin crew uniforms changed over the years? With London Fashion Week starting tomorrow, TLE decided to take a look at how style...
Nothing says romance quite like an overnight stay in a cheap hotel in Croydon. Add a self-assembled gazebo, that turns your bog-standard bed into glittery, pink four-poster love raft, and sparks will fly. This Valentine's Day easyHotel, the budget hotel chain that offers rooms for as little as £19.99 per...
Long-haul flights can be tedious. For those who’ve never been on one, they go a little bit like this. On boarding, your are immediately surprised by the size of the aircraft. You flick through the entertainment package to see what films you’re going to watch during the flight. You make...
This week, TLE caught up with British-born photographer Daniel James Clarke to find out how he went from restaurant manager to world traveller. Since quitting his job in 2014, he's been on the road exploring over 60 countries along the way. Tell us a little bit about you? My name is...