Travel

DFDS has reported its best ever first quarter result just months after celebrating its 150th birthday. The historic ferry and logistics operator posted a four per cent increase in revenue for first three months of 2017, with profit before tax up by ten per cent thanks to strong freight performance and despite slightly weaker UK passenger numbers due to the late Easter. In an indicator of strong underlying economic trends, freight volumes and UK-Continental trade flows continue to grow and the...

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” -  Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It Scientific research has shown that people who travel a lot benefit from their travels in more than one way. In a nutshell, it has been proven that travelling adventures can change...

Britain’s roads are far safer today than they used to be, with around 45% fewer fatalities on British roads compared to 2015. However, that doesn’t mean that Britain’s roads are completely without fault. There is a lot of work that still needs to be done and while fatalities have reduced in number considerably, the amount of accidents hasn’t. So, if you’re planning to take a tour around the roads of the UK, here is some information on how to find...

Amongst an ever diversifying spectrum of accommodation options it's difficult to know where hotel brands such as Accor's Novotel fit in. I remember when I got my first bar job there some 12 years ago getting a sense of unease about what the future held for the chain. Five or so big hospitality outlets were due to be opened that year which threatened to reduce their share of the hospitality pie and many offered either new concepts or a distinct product...

On a recent visit through San Fransisco's notorious hippie capital Haight-Ashbury The Guardian's Rory Carroll noted that the spirit of the Beat poets and flower children who gathered there to create a new paradigm of sharing and community has become an illusion. The bohemian idyll of Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters no longer exists, replaced by a gentrified tech-loving media landscape. Peace, love and credit cards, it seems. But not all is lost - Britain has its own 'counter-culture counter-option'...

Edgware and Stanmore are destinations that are as synonymous with tube station notice boards as please mind the gap signs are to underground station platforms - and they could also be your gateway to country living this summer. As the nights get longer and the weather becomes increasingly bearable Londoners across the city are starting to gather their plans for spending more time outdoors as soon as the clock strikes five. Once the preserve of long weekends away  Glamping is...

I wish I could bottle the smell of an old country inn. Freshly ground coffee mixed with an infusion of crispy toast, Cumberland sausage, hints of lavender, rural air and a certain, je ne sais quoi. Right now London's hub stations will be bustling with people travelling hundreds of miles in search of just that. Bags packed at Paddington for The Cotswolds, wellies on at Euston en route to the Lake District and flat caps at the ready in Kings...

Ordinarily Boeing 787 Dreamliners serve as commercial aircraft that carry between 240 and 335 passengers, but in a world first one of the planes has been transformed into a 40-passenger private jet so spacious and well-equipped that it resembles an airborne penthouse apartment. Developed by Kestrel Aviation Management, an American aviation asset manager that specialises in airliner and corporate aircraft acquisition, sale, modification and financing, this one-of-a-kind Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) has been dubbed the Dreamjet. The privileged few who...

Let’s be honest: the world of aviation and sustainability don’t exactly go hand in hand. But that doesn’t mean we should be wasteful in our travel, hence the popularity of offsetting our carbon footprint when travelling. For further guilt-free travel, Oslo Airport are pushing the boundaries with what’s billed to be the world’s greenest airport. Nordic-Office of Architecture took care of the original airport’s design in 1998, and their new expansion, which opened this week, produced 35% less carbon emission....