Kate Humble tops poll of dream dive buddies – as Amy Winehouse falls short. BBC presenter and oceanic adventurer Kate Humble has been crowned the dream dive buddy of Regaldive clients. In a survey conducted by the dive specialist, Kate just edged out diving legend and underwater experimenter Jacques Cousteau, with renowned scuba figurehead Monty
The hurricane season is a bit like a letter from the nasty chap at HMRC – you know that each year it’s inevitable that it will show up but there isn’t much you can do about it. Catchy names for the 2009 season include Gonzalo, Isaias and Paulette while Gustav, Ike and Paloma, all the
To London Zoo (or the Zoological Society of London, as they seem to prefer), for a talk by one of the world’s most famous primatologists, Dr Jane Goodall, DBE. 2010 will be the 50th anniversary of her ground-breaking research into chimpanzee behaviour – our closest cousins in terms of DNA. She now spends a lot
Every year during Wimbledon , the British dust off their tennis rackets and the public courts start filling up with people eager to have a bash about. On day three of Wimbledon, only two British players are still in the main draw singles – Andy Murray and Elena Baltacha – from an initial entry of
Steering clear of the TripAdvisors, Expedias and WAYNs of this world, I’ve made a list of ten great, but lesser-known travel websites. Not that I don’t get out much during my lunchbreak… (This is not an exercise to plug our own clients this time – although many of them have stellar sites – that’s for another
Overseas holiday bookings, like any industry, suffered at the hands of this recession – the Euro struggled and jobs were endangered, leaving little scope for a summer holiday booking. But recent stories quote analysts as saying that Britain may already be slowly clawing its way out of the recession; that the nadir may have passed.
On the Baltic coast, the city of Gdansk – founded in 997 AD – is preparing to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Solidarity’s battle for basic rights for the workers, which a lot of us will remember from TV reports of striking dock workers at the time. The momentous happenings signalled the end of communism
Monaco is perhaps at its most lovely in June, when the weather is perfect, the evenings are long and balmy and all the summer flowers are in bloom. Last week the Principality hosted some of the most recognisable faces from the small screen with the 49th Monte-Carlo TV Festival, with stars from CSI, Law and
Don’t just survive, thrive. That was the message from the AITO Specialist Travel Agents Conference in Gdansk this weekend (http://www.aitogdansk2009.org/), where some of the leading independent travel agents in the UK gave tips on how companies can beat the recession. It’s tough out there, but it’s not the end of the world as we know
En route to a conference in Gdansk, Poland (AITO Specialist Travel Agents’ conference, www.aitoagents.com), we had a few hours in Warsaw yesterday and it was a revelation – 29 degrees for starters! It was a national holiday – Corpus Christi – so everyone was in party mood, and the old town was buzzing. People strolled