Travel

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....

Some people travel to London for leisure. Others, however, travel to London for more serious reasons like taking care of their business. Despite the infamous Brexit and the Syrian refugee crisis last year, the United Kingdom’s economy has proven to be resilient and has even enjoyed a 1.8% growth according to the Office for National Statistics. Thus, it is still a hot spot for American entrepreneurs and corporate representatives seeking for business opportunities. Business travel could last a couple of...

There is something rather romanticised about the notion of travelling alone. So when I was invited to a wedding in Florence, I excitedly booked my flight and extended my trip for some solo ‘me’ time. If Julia Roberts could do it, then why the hell couldn’t I? But as the trip finally came around, I realised travelling alone was a journey that we’re never really prepared for. After a three hour flight I was glad to switch off from the...

The adrenaline-pumping landing at Saba in the Caribbean has won top spot in 2017 Scenic Airports poll. The tiny Caribbean island runway topped the global travel poll, with other top ten landings including Donegal, London City, Gibraltar and Queenstown. The world’s shortest commercial runway, on the Caribbean island of Saba, has topped a global travel poll of the world’s most scenic airport landings, conducted by the private jet booking service PrivateFly. With a runway just 400 metres (1,312 feet) long...

Air New Zealand has opened a pop-up shop in London's Soho today to counter our perception of airline food. A quarter of Brits think airplane food is worse than school dinners and hospital food, new research has found, while a fifth of people believe bad cuisine is the worst thing about flying long-haul and over half don’t like the food served on planes.   The menu on offer at the pop-up, This Is How We Fly, was devised by kiwi...