Trout and salmon fishing is a sport many Americans and Canadians love. Blessed by the natural abundance of trout in the Americas and the yearly steelhead run from Alaska and Russia, there’s no doubt why North America is one of the top manufacturers of fishing lures in the world. So head to your local tackle…
Vietnamese New Year – Things To Do and Don’t Do
For many of us younger Vietnamese, Tet always had been something very important to our families, to our culture and to our people. However, we often don’t understand certain things that the older folks in the family usually say and do during these 3 important days of the Lunar Vietnamese New Year. Just like many…
Is my British passport still valid after Brexit?
It’s happening; the UK is leaving the EU on January 31 2020. So pay attention to the status of your passport. You must ensure: Your passport is less than ten years old on the date of travel (no matter how much time is left on it). You must have at least six months of validity…
Brits would rather cancel a holiday then risk tummy upset
The terror of being ‘caught short’ is so acute in people suffering from poor gut health, they’d rather cancel a holiday than risk not being able to find a toilet in time. If this describes you, then you are not alone. Research unveiled by PrecisionBiotics highlights the plight of some of the UK’s 12m adults…
Travel Advice: Is it safe to travel to China after Coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan? UPDATE
UPDATE: 3 February 2020 Death toll nationwide in China reaches 362 Nearly 18,000 infections UPDATE: 1 February 2020 Delta, United and American Airlines are suspending all flights between the U.S. and mainland China. U.S. Temporarily Bars Foreigners Who’ve Visited China Infected people reach 12,000. UPDATE: 31 January 2020 WHO (World Health Organisation) declares coronavirus a…
Cumulative effect
For years, maybe many years, Malawi has been often called the âWarm Heart of Africaâ, with the tourism trade touting its folks because the nationâs shining mild â the raison dâêtre for visiting. That and the massive stretch of water that occupies 20 p.c of Malawiâs complete floor space, after all; therefore, Malawiâs different typically-used…
Sea lions – Travel Africa Magazine
[ad_1] Remarkable relearned behaviour exhibits the resilience of Namibiaâs fairly exceptional desert-tailored large cats. By Philip Stander. Image above by Carel Loubser, Shutterstock The picture of a lion strolling alongside an remoted seashore has captured the creativeness of many filmmakers, scientists and wildlife fanatics. It is a phenomenon that has, in current occasions, occurred solely…
Day of the jackal
Yip, yip, yip! It was a jackal that introduced my very first leopard sighting. Two jackals, to be exact. I used to be sitting in the darkness of Nyamandhlovu viewing platform in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, watching the moonlit waterhole, when a slinky, feline silhouette approached to drink. Two smaller, canine-like silhouettes trotted shut behind,…
The anatomy of a bush camp
[ad_1] I made a calamitous mistake at Bilimungwe bush camp. Failing to shut my chalet door firmly as I went for lunch, some mischievous baboons entered. They ripped the mosquito web, ate the cleaning soap and tossed a cushion into the lagoon, probably startling the elephants which have been hosing themselves with murky water simply…
The Balearic Islands pass a bill to ban Brits’ boozy behaviour
Alcohol-fuelled holidays in the Balearic Islands such as Majorca and Ibiza have been banned in a bid to avert rowdiness and excess drinking. Pub crawls have been stopped in their tracks and happy hours and free bars are now illegal in the West End of Sant Antoni on Ibiza and Playa de Palma, El Arenal…