From passport applications to holiday refunds, we can help: The Holiday Guru answers traveller queries By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 10:50 BST, 18 July 2020 | Updated: 10:50 BST, 18 July 2020 The Holiday Guru is always on call to answer your questions. This week issues tackled include holiday refunds, passport applications and booking hotels in … Read more
There’s never been a better time to book your floating boutique hotel holiday The ropes are off and the joy of river cruising can restart after the Foreign & Commonwealth Office changed its advice to give river cruising the green light this week. It’s something the Mail has been pushing for and we’re pleased the … Read more
They didn’t chuck communist-era statues in the river in most former Soviet countries after the Iron Curtain fell. Instead, they stuck them in museums and charged tourists to view them. Memento Park — officially named A Sentence About Tyranny Park — on the outskirts of Hungarian capital Budapest — is one of the best known. … Read more
Cat, from Manchester, is sitting by the pool, while her husband splashes with their three-year-old daughter. ‘We booked last minute, and I had no idea we were the guinea pigs,’ she says. They are — as I am — part of a 500-strong vanguard of British tourists on chartered TUI flights to Ibiza, followed by … Read more
These incredible images of remote tribes in Africa were taken by a frontline nurse who says that the people there are the most caring on the planet. American Cohan Zarnoch, 54, has worked and travelled with multiple non-profit organisations over the past 12 years, snapping breathtaking pictures of rural tribes in countries including Ethiopia, Rwanda, … Read more
These incredible images of remote tribes in Africa were taken by a frontline nurse who says that the people there are the most caring on the planet. American Cohan Zarnoch, 54, has worked and travelled with multiple non-profit organisations over the past 12 years, snapping breathtaking pictures of rural tribes in countries including Ethiopia, Rwanda, … Read more
When it comes to weather, there’s only one thing we all like more than talking about it – and that’s looking at it. Especially when things get dramatic. And so it’s little wonder that storm-chasing photographer Adam Kyle Jackson, from Texas, has garnered almost 60,000 followers on Instagram – because he posts absolutely jaw-dropping pictures … Read more
Britons reveal the top 30 things they love the most about staycations – and it’s coastal walks that’s No1 followed by fish and chips and countryside strolls Also making the top 30 is strolling along a pier and drinking in a beer garden But buying a stick of rock at the seaside didn’t quite make … Read more
‘The landscape looked like the moon.’ That’s how traveller Joe Russo described the breathtaking scenery he saw from the train he rode with his wife, Kait, along the world’s highest railway from Xining in China to Lhasa in Tibet, which has a peak elevation of 16,627ft (5,067 metres). It’s a unique journey – so high … Read more
When it comes to pretty villages, Britain is undoubtedly a class act. And so this picture-list of its most ‘Instagrammable’ hamlets is sweet eye-candy indeed. It has been compiled by property website Bankrate, which took to image-sharing site Instagram and assessed the number of hashtags 100 villages dotted around the UK each had. Then it … Read more