You will definitely work up a thirst navigating to these remote bars – they are the most troublesome-to-reach drinking holes on the planet. Two UK pubs make the list – one in Scotland, one off the Devon coast – along with a bar in the frozen wilds of Antarctica, two boozers in the blistering Australian … Read more
The shiny white diving sub bounces and bobs in the Pacific Ocean as the water stretches out vast and blue as far as my eyes can see. For a few minutes the vessel rocks in the waves and then it is gone, descending seven miles through the ocean depths to the bottom of the sea. … Read more
‘I wish I had some friends here to invite over,’ I told the buggy driver, as I was dropped off outside my cavernous villa. I’d landed at Nanuku in Fiji – an Auberge Resorts Collection property voted the best resort in Australia and the South Pacific in Condé Nast Traveler’s 2019 Readers’ Choice Awards. And in … Read more
Brightly illuminated orange letters at Rarotonga airport cry: ‘Kia orana!’ You’ll hear those words a lot if you’re lucky enough to visit this tiny, lushly forested extinct volcano rearing from the Pacific bed. They mean ‘may you live long’ in Maori, and the etiquette is to reply ‘kia orana’. Make sure you do: bleary-eyed after … Read more
The US would lose a war with China fought in the Pacific, is unable to defend Taiwan from an invasion and fears the Guam military base is at risk now, US defense sources have warned. ‘Eye-opening’ Pentagon war games have revealed growing fears the US is vulnerable to threats from China and that any attack … Read more
MIDAS SHARE TIPS UPDATE: Our tip Anglo Pacific mines a stream of dividends By Joanne Hart, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:53 BST, 18 April 2020 | Updated: 22:26 BST, 18 April 2020 Anglo Pacific is a one-off in this country. It is the only listed business focused on mining royalties – which means the … Read more
It may not be a time for moving, but Jennifer Love Hewitt has decided to offload her home in the Pacific Palisades, after recently purchasing a bigger property in the same area last month. Now, the Ghost Whisperer star is putting her original property on the housing market, asking for a hefty sum of $4,199,000, … Read more