Category: Travel Guide

Everything you need to know about tipping for good service around the world. It’s tough trying to decipher what to tip from country to country, and many have no clue about how much gratuity to leave or offer. From the hovering bellhop hoping for some reward for his trouble to the cold shoulder from the…

Still at a loose end for New Year’s Eve? Check out these sometimes debauched suggestions in London: Spend New Year’s Eve in an Igloo Experience a winter pop up with the cosiest bar on the river with the return of the private dining igloos. Jimmy’s winter igloos, together with Martin Miller’s Gin, have installed a…

As the days are darkening earlier and the sun is shying away from our skies, we know this is the onset of freezing temperatures and dreary grey skies. So why wait for next summer? Grab your shades and start planning your warming rays way before then. We suggest five easy-to-get-to destinations where you could be…

As our tiny Cessna 182 buzzes low over yellowing savannah and plum-red acacia gum trees, the pilot, Craig Reid, spots Africa’s most northerly elephant herd. Some 500 animals are sheltering within the safe embrace of spiny forest. A few high-spirited youngsters cavort in the thermal Sahelian heat. “You wouldn’t have seen this a decade ago,…

From a steam railway in Yorkshire to lodges on wheels in the Alps, sit again and benefit from the present exterior the train window by Robin McKie 1.Tunnel by the Alps: Semmering railway Europe’s first standard-gauge mountain rail line, the Semmering – which connects Vienna with southwestern Austria – turned the primary transport path to be…

Japan is a very beautiful country with lots to experience. Its like experienceing something new each day. It will not stop to awe you. But being a vegetarian in Japan poses some problems. They are fairly unknown to the concept of vegetarianism. So prepare yourself ahead to enjoy Japan without going hungry!  Best thing to do is, equip yourself with…

Winter time in Paris is no secret, the lights, the sounds and festive events are reason enough to book the next flight over. While the cities famous hot spots like the Eiffel Tower, the Sacré-Cœur, The Louvre Museum, The Centre Pompidou, and the Seine River are certainly worth adding to your travel itinerary, how about diving right into the streets of Paris? Let…

Shopping is an obvious element of traveling, where a trip is incomplete unless you have walked around the many markets in the place. Maybe because shopping in Singapore is also an experience in itself, which allows you to enter into an everyday element of the locals’ life – buying the things they buy for yourself,…

Forget your local high street this Christmas and make your way to one of Europe’s fabulous Christmas markets. Mingle with the locals and meander through the festive stalls, tippling on mulled wine while Christmas carols singers serenade you. So squeeze in a festive mini-break now and come home with some unusual goodies and prezzies. Winter…

We had a chance to spend a day working alongside the owners of a very cute farm called Ostrich Land. And wow, did we have fun! Have a look at the video above to see what a blast this was for the whole family. Here are 13 things we learned about ostriches at Ostrich Land…