Travel

Do you ever feel like you need another holiday to recover from your holiday? Well, according to new research it takes Brits just 29 days after they return from their jollies to feel like they need another one. Just over four weeks after your last holiday or mini-break has been identified as the point where fatigue starts to set in, work performance starts to slide and we feel the need to get away from the daily grind. Eating more comfort...

A luxury travel company has launched a virtual reality holiday service for executives too busy to get away. The concept, dubbed "A Journey around my room", has been designed for people who struggle to achieve a work/life balance, providing all the benefits of travel without any of the inconveniences - such as the hassle of preparation, fear of flying and jet lag, not to mention the language barriers, unusual foods and people when you get there. The company begins by confirming hotel reservations -...

London might not have the large-scale cycle culture of other cities like Copenhagen and Amsterdam but that doesn’t mean it isn’t one of the best in the world to explore on two wheels. The city’s central boroughs offer relative compactness and with public transport on the pricey side, getting on your bike could mean discovering a new side of the city and saving some cash to boot.​ ​ Hiring a bike is easy in London While dedicated cycle lanes are...

By Jay Williams  “It’s a press trip,” I pointed out when asked to sign for our room.  “I know,” replied the receptionist.  “It’s just in case, you know, you throw your telly out of the window or something.  You are in Brighton, after all …” I felt a flush of pride that she thought my hell-raising days were not behind me.  Or perhaps she had spotted that I was indeed a fifty-something, osteo-arthritic teetotaller and she was just being kind....

Rated as one of the best courses in the Caribbean, we took a day out experiencing one of the “most idyllic rounds of golf imaginable”.

If London wasn’t so inherently historic in itself the prospect of visiting a royal peculiar chapel, occupied castle and great park within a half hour trip would surely be too much to resist for most urban dwellers. Sat on the River Thames adjacent to Eton and within a stone’s throw of the rowing lakes of Dorney and the locks of Boveney Windsor is a town steeped in historical importance and regional hot spots. Named from the Anglo Saxon Windlesora –...

By Will Robinson Goa is a very interesting place indeed. Despite being the smallest of all Indian states it sees some of the highest levels of tourism anywhere in the country, with significant diversity to be found amongst these visitors which can be distilled into five primary groups. Firstly you have the yoga loving, cold pressed vegetable juice drinking, shakra cleansing healthy liver. Let's call this deeply smug set 'glowers'. Glowers tend to accumulate in designated yoga retreats across the...

For a country of 1.2 billion people stretching across a landmass of almost two million square miles, India's transport system is, to put it politely, antiquated. Take a trip on the Shatabdi Express from Bangalore to Chennai and you'll be chugging along for five hours on a good day, and if you want to arrive at the same destination from Mumbai you'll be sat on a train for just under a day! But that could all be changing. Under new Hyperlink...

To help out ideas-strapped parents in London, Family & Friends Railcard, which saves a third off most adult rail fares and 60% off kids’ fares, has compiled ten free activities and days out to keep families entertained in the capital city. 1. Make a date with a dinosaur at the Natural History Museum With over 80 million specimens spanning billions of years, it’s unsurprising that this attraction has over five million visitors every year – and best of all it’s...