They are the hotel rooms that are, according to the inspectors – ‘perfect’. Forbes Travel Guide has unveiled its list of the world’s best hotel rooms for 2019 – and they all received maximum marks. Undercover reviewers stayed at hundreds of properties across the globe assessing them on comfort, convenience, cleanliness and maintenance. And according … Read more
Where I live and write in Bath, heavy traffic shakes my building. Family, work deadlines, my bank account and, yes, Brexit all conspire to make me feel hemmed in. ‘The essential test of freedom asks how far in any direction we can move from where we now sit without deviating or meeting obstacles,’ wrote the … Read more
Book a plum getaway – with The Plum Guide By You Magazine Published: 00:01 GMT, 9 February 2020 | Updated: 11:54 GMT, 10 February 2020 Similar to Airbnb, but each of the homes – and hosts – featured have been vetted to ensure a top-notch stay with seriously affordable options in 12 cities Peregrine in Milan … Read more
The Fleece Inn in Worcestershire has been named the best pub in Britain for 2019 – which considering the number of pubs Britain has, is a rather significant accolade. The honour was bestowed upon it by the prestigious Bristol-based travel guide Sawday’s, which specialises in finding special places to stay and eat at. The Fleece … Read more
A trip to Spain doesn’t have to mean staying in a high-rise hotel on the Costas. A string of former royal palaces, castles, manor houses, monasteries and convents have been turned into government-owned paradors and they are the perfect places to experience authentic Spanish culture. Here are ten of the best to suit every budget. … Read more
James M. Cain, the prolific pulp fiction author of The Postman Always Rings Twice, wrote that ‘whatever else may be said about Malibu… it is probably the finest beach ever created’. Cain was writing in the Thirties, but his description might not be too far off today. In fact, Malibu has a number of beautiful … Read more
It is an issue troubling some of the greatest minds in the world at the moment, from Bill Gates to Elon Musk. SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk described AI as our ‘biggest existential threat’ and likened its development as ‘summoning the demon’. He believes super intelligent machines could use humans as pets. Professor Stephen … Read more
Here’s the easy bit. The advice is against ‘all but essential’ travel to mainland China, parts of South Korea and ten towns in northern Italy, due to the coronavirus, while some countries, such as Israel, have started to impose their own travel bans. But what about a holiday in other parts of Italy or if … Read more
Mark Twain once said: ‘Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.’ In the spirit of the great American writer … Read more
Australia finally has a telecommunications products resource dedicated to people with disability. Image: vadimguzhva, Getty Images/iStockphoto Technology has certainly come a long way, with advancements in speech recognition, wearables, and mobile apps being examples of how it is making the lives of people with disability more convenient than before. Yet there has historically been a … Read more