National Geographic is celebrating 125 years of photography with a beautiful special edition showcasing some of its best images from over the years. Our picture gallery below shows just some of the images from the October 125th anniversary issue of National Geographic magazine, which features iconic shots from history, including Steve McCurry's 'The Afghan Girl'. The piercing eyes of the girl...
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Ever wished that your hotel was just that little bit closer to the pub? Of course you have. Which is why we've picked three of our fave brewery hotels across the UK, from the Lakes of Windermere to Britain's smallest town. Stay in one of these perfct choices for pub accommodation, enjoy a few home-brewed beers and your room is just a stone's throw away... The Neuadd Arms Hotel/Facebook The...
One of the best things about a cruise holiday is being able to take in the sort of views that you'd never normally get the chance to see. From the Northern Lights to leaping whales, anyone who has been on a cruise will tell you that it's pretty special. Travel agency bonvoyage.co.uk recently questioned nearly 2,000 Brits who had returned from a cruise holiday to find out about what the most...
Johnny Depp has reportedly checked in to a hotel in Dover, Kent while filming his latest movie. According to KentOnline, the Hollywood actor is staying at Wallett's Court, which describes itself as "Kent's classic British country house hotel experience". He is shooting film Into The Woods at Dover Castle while staying in the 17th-century Jacobean manor house. Rooms at the hotel cost...
Imagine this: you're on a city break, taking in all the sites and generally having a wonderful time, when suddenly you realise you've dropped your wallet. What are the chances that you'll ever be reunited with it? Well, it depends which city you're in. A study has found that If you're visiting Prague, for example, it's highly unlikely that your precious purse will ever been handed in, but if...
Video footage has captured the moment three Alaskan fishermen rescued a killer whale who'd become stuck on rocks while seal hunting. Jason Vonick, 42, was preparing for the start of shrimp fishing season with his partners Nick Segal and John Oakes when they saw a group of killer whales hunting seals in the Klakas inlet. One of the female orcas became stuck on rocks, so Vonick and his pals...
It's time to make a decision. Do you want to lie beneath the beating sun on a glorious beach break or crunch through the snow on a ski holiday? It's a tough choice but one thing's for sure: whatever you decide, it'll be nicer than here! So where's hot in December? For real warmth, you'll obviously need to go to far-flung places: South America, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean islands and the...
Now is the time to start thinking about your next escape - and If you're stuck for ideas for where to go on holiday in 2014, we have the answer! Our friends at British Airways have come up with their top tips to help us inspire you with some of the best destinations to visit in 2014. From holidays inspired by Breaking Bad to Britney Spears, here's where to be seen next year - and BA has...
A drunken reveller in Germany ended up quite a few miles from home - in fact in another country altogether - when a taxi driver misheard him and took him to Belgium. After heading to a nightclub last weekend, the 27-year-old Aachen native jumped into a cab waiting outside and asked the taxi driver to take him 'nach hause', (home) to the nearby area of Herzogenrath. But the taxi driver thought...
If you own a holiday home on the Costa Del Sol (pictured), the Algarve or Cornwall, you are set to do very well if you rent it out in 2014. So says Holiday rentals website AlphaHolidayLettings.com, which has just published a list of top 10 holiday rental hotspots for 2014 based on trends, visitors and bookings received on their website in the past 12 months. The list is topped by the capital...
What would happen if all of earth's ice melted? London and most of south east England would disappear altogether, for a start. And so would Venice, the entire Netherlands and a good chunk of Denmark. At least, that's according to National Geographic, which has created a set of maps showing the catastrophic effects melting ice could have on the countries around the globe. While it suggests...
Budget airline Ryanair has added nine new flight routes to its winter schedule, including cheap flights to Comiso, Fez, Nuremburg, Ostrava and Strasbourg from London Stansted. The new routes will begin this week and from 26 November Dortmund and Lisbon will be added to the schedule, as well as Bordeaux and Rabat in February. According to the Daily Telegraph, the low-cost airline is...
Ever encountered a troublesome border on your travels or come across one that's too weird to be true? Some borders don't make it easy for tourists to cross over to a neighbouring country on holiday. Take South Africa, for example. If you're tempted to make an onward journey to Mozambique via the Giriyondo border, you'll have to content with lions as well as guards. And American...
Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary says he has "never tried to be intentionally rude" in the way he runs his no-frills airline. Source: the Press Association. Describing himself as a "cheeky chappy", the Irish boss says customers are always right as long as they "comply by the rules". In a wide-ranging interview in The Times, Mr O'Leary says that although he has indicated that Ryanair is going...
They might not have enjoyed it (that's not a very happy face, is it?), but two super-cute twin tiger cubs passed their first swim test with flying colours at Washington's Smithsonian Zoo this week. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO The three- month-old pair of Sumatran tiger cubs were placed into the moat surrounding their enclosure to see if they could survive if they fell in. AP The cubs, named...
A video of a toddler in a tiger suit playing with a tiger cub at a zoo has become an internet hit. Little Marshall Shaffer stood in front of six-month-old Kali's zoo enclosure in his costume onesie, and the animal seemed entranced, chasing him up and down the screen. The footage, which has received over two million views on YouTube, was filmed by his mother at Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma,...
A British diver has been arrested after being caught red-handed hunting for souvenirs on the Costa Concordia shipwreck. The 42-year-old man was one of four caught, with the others being an Irish man and two South Africans. All four men were staff who worked for the salvage group Titan, which had been employed to raise the Concordia from the seabed in Giglio. The men were spotted by CCTV...
An angler in Hampshire has claimed he "clearly" saw a two-foot crocodile lurking in the lake he was fishing in. Alan Pragnell, 64, was fishing from the banks of a lake near Ringwood, Hants, when the crocodile grabbed hold of the fish he was reeling in. When it let go, the animal was sitting right in front of him, said Mr Pragnell. He told the Daily Telegraph: "It was quite clear enough. It...
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