A week's chalet board at Chalet Arnaud in Les Arcs in France costs from £349pp (was £698pp), including flights and transfers, departing on January 6. Holidays … A week's full board costs from £749pp, including coach travel from London, ski passes, ski hire and 23 […]
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How to make the most of a ski holiday: visit a new resort each day on a tour of the French Alps
The scene is set for one of those best days. Snow has fallen overnight, a fresh layer of white weighing down the branches of trees and blurring the sharp lines of rocky outcrops, and we're going to be first to dive into a pristine field […]
Your 2017 Black Friday Booklist: Eight Essential Science Reads
The holidays are prime reading season. All that travel and post-meal lounging will give you plenty of time to plow through the books that have been stacking up on your bedside table for the past year. Just be sure to grab a good one. Your […]
This Stripped-Down Blogging Tool Exemplifies Antisocial Media
Recently, Rob Beschizza—a coder and the managing editor of Boing Boing—released a stripped-down blogging tool called txt.fyi. Write something, hit Publish, and voilà: your deathless prose, online. But here’s the thing: txt.fyi has no social mechanics. None. No Like button, no Share button, no comments. […]
Croatia’s Foreign Entrepreneurs: Meet Robyn from Sydney, Australia
However, after a number of years spent travelling between Australia and Italy with intermittent visits across the Adriatic to Croatia visiting family and friends, I felt the urge to settle in a place where I felt comfortable and at peace, a place where I could […]
A taste of Grexit
Imagine being a Greek travelling within the EU, say going from Athens to Berlin, nonchalantly carrying nothing more than your state ID, as you normally do when you travel from one Schengen area country to another. – Only this time, instead of just passing through […]
Liked on YouTube: Living the VanLife as Digital Nomads in a VW Westfalia (Utilitarian Vehicle)
Living the VanLife as Digital Nomads in a VW Westfalia (Utilitarian Vehicle) Corey and Emily moved into their Volkswagen Westfalia five years ago and have been living and working on the road full time as they travel Become a Patron: http://ift.tt/2ka89l1 The most helpful book […]
Trips aboard and abroad
The luxury travel company has launched its new worldwide Luxury Escorted Journeys for next year from US$2,975 (S$4,000) a person. Visit Croatia's Diocletian's Palace, discover Oslo's majestic fjords, have lunch with an Italian Count or visit the gardens of Alnwick Castle with the Duchess of … […]
Inuit want free travel over international waters between Canada, Greenland
Inuit from Canada and Greenland hope to convince at least four governments to let them manage and travel freely over an international stretch of Arctic ocean that's one of the most productive environments in the North. … France and Spain have a formal deal on […]
The numbers that show France’s proud rail service is struggling
That reflects the average speed of France's prestigious high speed TGV trains in France. So although the TGV – the pride of France's rail system can travel over 300 km/h as we are regularly reminded in adverts, the average speed of a journey is well […]