Travel

If you are thinking of heading to Bath for a few days’ holiday, or maybe you are looking to spend a week or so and really explore the city and the South West, then Bath has some fantastic places to stay, from boutique hotels through to luxury private holiday homes and apartments. With so much choice, it can be hard to find the right property to stay in, as even with the Internet making finding accommodation so much easier these...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor  Wonder what a safari guy does in his time off? This seal dive in Cape Town was just the ticket and Simonstown seemed like a perfectly good place to launch the boat from bearing in mind that's the same place you launch to go out on a cage dive with great whites, especially seeing as seals are the great whites favourite prey species and you're about to go in the water with them for the...

by Adam Turner If you’re looking for a Spanish city where you can drink cocktails out of jam jars, and party all night until the rubber on the souls on your Dr Martens melt into the dancefloor…I probably wouldn’t recommend Seville. Spain’s fourth largest city isn’t as cosmopolitan or vibrant as the likes of Barcelona or Madrid just yet. However, if you look hard enough you’ll find some absolute gems and I was lucky enough to be shown some of...

Riding on the back of the digital revolution, e-sports have massively gained in popularity over the last decade and a half. An incredible 205 million people either took part in or were spectators in e-sports during 2014. While in the past much of the growing audience has been based in Asia, now, Europe and North America are now beginning to pick up the pace and embrace e-sports as enthusiastically as their cousins overseas. So, what does this mean for Las...

A European air fare war is looming after Ryanair said it is to cut prices by seven per cent this year. Intensifying competition from air lines such as Transavia, Eurowings, Wizz and WOW air has forced the hand of Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary, who said: "If there is a fare war in Europe, then Ryanair will be the winner". The cuts come after full year net profits fell short of analyst forecasts, with disruption following the Brussels terror attacks taking its toll. First quarter profits...

For a reason unbeknownst to us, Portugal is a hotbed for spa hotels. Probably more than any country in Europe per capita, there are swathes of luxury retreats with promises of R'n'R, coming away a new person, and stepping away from the hustle and bustle of the world. We want all of that. To our room, please. Having last year holidayed in the Portuguese beach town of Cascais, where the sky was cloudless, the veggie food was terrible and the...

Thousands of people turned out to watch the Antonov An-225 Mriya, the World's largest plane, land in Perth this weekend. The 84 metre-long plane was transporting a 117-tonne generator from Prague to the Western coast of Australia with stops in the Middle East and Asia on the way. Plane enthusiasts turned out in their droves to watch its arrival, with roads blocked due to crowding. Watch the landing below:

Have you ever flown in to Gatwick on a clear day and felt rather more upbeat at the prospect of returning to the UK than you might flying over, let’s say, the built-up residential sprawl that lays beneath the approach to Heathrow or City? Well, that’s because this small corner of Sussex is really rather wonderful. Half an hour out of London on a good run, Gatwick is not only a quick and convenient escape to Europe but also an...

You know where you want to go on holiday, but you don’t know what to do when you get there? That is a familiar feeling for most of us seeking to get the most out of our limited time away. Buying a rough guide may help, but surely a smooth guide on the ground who has known the area all their life is what you really need. There is nothing worse than visiting a place and finding out when you...