It's raining... seaweed? UK village deluged in beach algae
Filed under: Travel News SWNS Residents in a Gloucestershire village got a rather smelly surprise when it appeared to start raining seaweed. Streets, homes, and gardens were covered in the marine algae...
View ArticleEdinburgh Airport covers up Picasso nude poster (then changes mind)
Filed under: Travel News Picasso's Nude Woman in a Red Armchair: PA Edinburgh Airport covered up a poster of a Picasso nude following complaints from disgruntled passengers. Nude Woman in a Red...
View ArticlePassenger's aftershave sparks bomb scare at Edinburgh Airport
Filed under: Travel News Archant A passenger's bottle of aftershave sparked a terror alert at Edinburgh Airport on Saturday - after security officers thought it was a bomb. The grenade-shaped bottle...
View ArticleTourist beach in Wales closed after blue shark sighting
Filed under: Travel News Rex Holidaymakers at a popular tourist beach in Wales were told to stay out of the water after RNLI lifeguards spotted a shark in the sea. According to the BBC, red flags were...
View ArticleWatch: Tourist survives 'iceberg tsunami' in Greenland
Filed under: Travel News YouTube An Australian tourist is lucky to be alive after her boat was "written off" by an iceberg wave. Scroll down to see the video Sarah Williams, from Adelaide, was viewing...
View ArticleRyanair to send 'bad news' texts
Filed under: Travel News PA Ryanair are set to send free (yes, you read that correctly) text alerts to passengers to inform that about flight delays over 90 minutes. Passengers will be asked to provide...
View ArticleTop ten active holidays in Croatia
Filed under: World travel Croatia National Tourist Office Don't waste your holiday in Croatia sprawled on the beach. If you like adventure and beautiful scenery you'll want to experience action and...
View ArticleTourist falls asleep on airport baggage belt, discovered on X-ray scanner
Filed under: Travel News repubblica.it A Norwegian tourist fell asleep on a Rome airport baggage belt and travelled through a secure area before being discovered by officials on an X-ray scanner. The...
View ArticleTen dead cheap holiday boltholes for August Bank Holiday
Filed under: UK travel Have you left it until the last minute to organise your Bank Holiday weekend? So have we! Are you feeling a tad stretched on the money front? So are we! Desperate to escape to...
View ArticleJessica Ennis plans holiday 'to read Fifty Shades of Grey'
Filed under: Travel News PA She might be a gold medal-winning heptathlon Olympics champion, but Jessica Ennis proved she's just like the rest of us really - by revealing plans to read Fifty Shades of...
View ArticleWatch: Terrifying plane crash captured on video from inside cockpit
YouTube Footage from inside the cockpit of a light plane shows the moment the aircraft came crashing down into a forest in the US. All of the four hikers on board miraculously escaped with their...
View ArticleHoliday firms charge for families to sit together
Filed under: Travel News PA When you're travelling with a young family, it's important for everyone to sit together - or at least close by. But now some package holiday firms are charging families more...
View Article13ft shark caught off the coast of Cornwall
Filed under: Travel News Getty An angler from Dagenham, Essex has told how he was left battered and bruised after he caught a 13ft Thresher shark off the coast of Looe, Cornwall. The Daily Mail reports...
View ArticleMystery yacht sparks international terror alert
Filed under: Travel News PA An empty yacht, found drifting just six miles from the Sizewell nuclear plant (pictured) on the Suffolk coast, has sparked an international police alert. The Daily Mail...
View ArticleBye bye sunshine - the rain is coming back tomorrow
Filed under: Travel News Getty Today's sunshine could be the last we see for a while, as the rain is expected to return tomorrow. We've had a sunny weekend - and the weather has been better than...
View ArticleVisitors ignore warnings and swim in toxic Peak District lake
Filed under: Travel News Simon Harrod via flickr When we're asked to picture the perfect beach, most of us would think of clear blue water gently lapping white sands. So it's little wonder that locals...
View ArticleCanary Islands hit by fierce forest fires: holidaymakers warned
Filed under: Travel News PA/La Gomera British tourists are being urged to stay in touch with the Foreign Office as wildfires rage in the Canary Islands, forcing the evacuation of thousands of...
View ArticleKaty Perry has near bikini malfunction at Californian waterpark
Filed under: Travel News Barcroft Just a little lower and Katy Perry could have been left rather-red-faced - and exposed - as she got a drenching at a waterpark in California this weekend. The I Kissed...
View ArticleNaked ambition: Dozens take a skinny dip at UK festival
Filed under: Travel News PA This weekend saw dozens of people strip off to their birthday suit for a mass skinny dip in Oxfordshire. It marked the launch of Secret Swimming, a new swimming club from...
View ArticleBears break into Norway holiday cabin and drink 100 cans of lager
PA This is what we call bear-swilling... There was not one but a whole family of bears with a very sore head this weekend after the animals broke into a holiday cabin in Norway - and drank over 100...
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