Of all the striking scenes that the Isles of Scilly offer – from beaches that look too tropical to be in Britain to wild boulder-strewn headlands and the magical Abbey Gardens – the one that…
Top 10 new restaurants and pop-ups on the…
Stark, Broadstairs Run by Ben and Sophie Crittenden, this most zeitgeisty of the Michelin-starred Kent coast restaurants has just moved down the road into quirkier premises. Now there’s a remodelled log-cabin style exterior and frosted…
I used to shrug off the beauty of…
14 September 2015: I’ve been in London for five years, and although I’m often full of spirits, my creative spirit is dampened by heartbreak, unemployment and housing insecurity. I’m homesick, missing New Zealand, so I…
On the hoof: pack pony-trekking in the mountains…
From the moment we began ascending the hillside I could tell my walking companion, Suze, was nervous. Beneath her long ginger fringe her eyes were wide, on high alert. After years of solo hiking, I…
UK nature-lovers invited to join fight against litter
Dom Ferris is a man who is building a career out of rubbish. He used to be responsible for organising beach cleans for Surfers Against Sewage. While working there, the Cornwall-based surfer and mountain biker…
Lee takes up chief accounting role with Marriott
Marriott International has appointed Felitia Lee to the dual roles of controller and chief accounting officer. Lee will be the principal accounting officer and report to Leeny Oberg, executive vice president and chief financial officer.…
UK imposes 14-day quarantine on travellers from Spain
The UK imposed restrictions on holidaymakers returning from Spain on Saturday night in a bid to curb the surge in coronavirus infections. The decision means those coming back from Spain will have to selfisolate for…
‘We were the luckiest people in the world’:…
The cruise ship MS Maasdam left New Zealand on the evening of 1 March, steaming out of Auckland’s Waitemata harbour into the Hauraki Gulf, where it headed north. The route was to San Diego via…
Messing about in boats … on the Thames
“This sleek, sinuous, full-bodied animal, chasing and chuckling, gripping things with a gurgle and leaving them with a laugh, to fling itself on fresh playmates that shook themselves free, and were” That’s Kenneth Grahame, describing…
Return of the youth hostel: a stay at…
Bethan applied the brakes, brought her tiny bike to a halt, and gasped. Ten metres ahead of us, a red deer had materialised from the piney depths of the forest. It had early-season antlers –…