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‘Put it on,’ demands my guide Maria, handing me a gas mask. Looking around at the rest of the group struggling with their masks, I decide this is probably the best course of action and pull it over my head. I’m 30ft underground in a top secret Soviet bunker...
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Stand by for more hugs and kisses when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrive in Fiji on Tuesday. Fijians are notoriously warm and friendly and it won’t take long before Meghan is whispering into Harry’s ear her wish to return for a longer, less frenetic stay. On arriving...
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From the Vatican to the Tower of London, there is always one thing travellers are certain to see at tourist hot spots – lots of other tourists. Often quiet time for contemplation and uninterrupted gazing in a world famous museum or at an ancient site is almost out of...
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It would be reasonable to expect, on a holiday costing well over half a million dollars, to be left with memories that will last a lifetime. So when luxury travel firm Black Tomato put together a $630,000 (£480,000) trip for the newly released 2018 Neiman Marcus Christmas fantasy gift...
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Brits heading to Spain this weekend for the half-term holidays are being warned to brace themselves for a deluge of rain and flooding. Weather warnings have been issued covering tourist hotspots in the east of the country including Benidorm, Alicante and Majorca. And forecasters predict that some parts are...
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It was once the grandest building in the mountains of northern Italy with frescoes adorning the walls and baroque architecture inspired by eastern culture. But now Villa de Vecchi in the town of Cortenova is known as the ‘ghost mansion’, because it was the scene of a brutal murder...
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Madonna fans can enjoy their very own holiday – in the Queen of Pop’s former London home. The luxury two-bedroom Georgian mews house, which she previously owned with ex-husband Guy Ritchie, is now a holiday rental in the upmarket Kensington area of the city. But a stay in the...
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The driveways of British homes looked very different in the 1960s – there were no cars on them that had parking sensors, infotainment systems or active-hybrid engines. Back then they were dominated by the cars of Austin, Ford, Standard, Hillman and Morris, as a fascinating new book fondly recalls...
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Don’t want to follow the TripAdvisor crowds to a pizza joint? There are some other top notch UK pizzerias well worth checking out that aren’t on the site’s top 10 list. Let’s begin by turning to eateries that received gongs at the National Pizza Awards. Earlier this month it...
‘Put it on,’ demands my guide Maria, handing me a gas mask. Looking around at the rest of the group struggling with their masks, I decide this is probably the best course of action and pull it over my head. I’m 30ft underground in a top secret Soviet bunker...
Stand by for more hugs and kisses when the Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrive in Fiji on Tuesday. Fijians are notoriously warm and friendly and it won’t take long before Meghan is whispering into Harry’s ear her wish to return for a longer, less frenetic stay. On arriving...
From the Vatican to the Tower of London, there is always one thing travellers are certain to see at tourist hot spots – lots of other tourists. Often quiet time for contemplation and uninterrupted gazing in a world famous museum or at an ancient site is almost out of...
It would be reasonable to expect, on a holiday costing well over half a million dollars, to be left with memories that will last a lifetime. So when luxury travel firm Black Tomato put together a $630,000 (£480,000) trip for the newly released 2018 Neiman Marcus Christmas fantasy gift...
Brits heading to Spain this weekend for the half-term holidays are being warned to brace themselves for a deluge of rain and flooding. Weather warnings have been issued covering tourist hotspots in the east of the country including Benidorm, Alicante and Majorca. And forecasters predict that some parts are...
It was once the grandest building in the mountains of northern Italy with frescoes adorning the walls and baroque architecture inspired by eastern culture. But now Villa de Vecchi in the town of Cortenova is known as the ‘ghost mansion’, because it was the scene of a brutal murder...
Madonna fans can enjoy their very own holiday – in the Queen of Pop’s former London home. The luxury two-bedroom Georgian mews house, which she previously owned with ex-husband Guy Ritchie, is now a holiday rental in the upmarket Kensington area of the city. But a stay in the...
The driveways of British homes looked very different in the 1960s – there were no cars on them that had parking sensors, infotainment systems or active-hybrid engines. Back then they were dominated by the cars of Austin, Ford, Standard, Hillman and Morris, as a fascinating new book fondly recalls...
Don’t want to follow the TripAdvisor crowds to a pizza joint? There are some other top notch UK pizzerias well worth checking out that aren’t on the site’s top 10 list. Let’s begin by turning to eateries that received gongs at the National Pizza Awards. Earlier this month it...