The Holiday Guru is always on hand to answer your questions. This week his advice is directed at issues around visiting South Africa, travel insurance for UK holidays and Covid restrictions on camping. Q. I hold a UK passport, live in Spain and visit South Africa each year for three months. In the past I … Read more
Road runner! Ostrich joins in with cyclists’ race in South Africa Daniel Sass, who captured the video, said: ‘As we rolled through the hills and took in all the beauty we noticed a strange bird running with the peloton’ The ostrich ran after the lead cyclist of their group and was able to keep pace … Read more
Royal experts say Meghan Markle and Prince Harry could have justified the sky-high cost of their tour of Africa if they had not ended it with a ‘personal’ attack on the press. Royal watchers say the 2019 tour, which it was revealed today cost the taxpayer £240,000, could have been a ‘historic success’. But on … Read more
Harry and Meghan’s last official tour as members of the Royal Family cost British taxpayers almost a quarter of a million pounds, official accounts reveal today. The high-profile trip to South Africa, Botswana, Angola and Malawi last autumn had been billed as one of the showpiece events of the royal year. But the couple left … Read more
Harry and Meghan’s last official tour as members of the Royal Family cost British taxpayers almost a quarter of a million pounds, official accounts reveal today. The high-profile trip to South Africa, Botswana, Angola and Malawi last autumn had been billed as one of the showpiece events of the royal year. But the couple left … Read more
Human trials of Oxford’s vaccine are still on hold in the US over safety concerns, two weeks after they were first paused. AstraZeneca, the drug giant which owns the rights to the experimental jab, stopped global trials on September 8 because a British volunteer was hospitalised. Leaked documents claimed the patient, a 37-year-old woman, developed … Read more
Human trials of Oxford’s vaccine are still on hold in the US over safety concerns, two weeks after they were first paused. AstraZeneca, the drug giant which owns the rights to the experimental jab, stopped global trials on September 8 because a British volunteer was hospitalised. Leaked documents claimed the patient, a 37-year-old woman, developed … Read more
The knobby ‘horns’ on top of a giraffe’s head may act like a dangerous lightning rod, according to a conservation scientist in South Africa. Two female giraffes were found dead at Rockwood wildlife reserve in Northern Cape after a sudden lightning storm in February. When rangers investigated, they found that one of the older giraffe’s … Read more
ISIS jihadists overrun paradise islands where Bono and Daniel Craig holiday before torching luxury villas and imposing Sharia law Luxurious Indian Ocean island of Vamizi, Mozambique, has been razed by ISIS Prince Albert of Monaco honeymooned there, former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela stayed there, as did footballer Christiano Ronaldo Vamizi and smaller islands … Read more
Mr Miyagi from The Karate Kid, Professor Keating from Dead Poets Society, Dumbledore… there have been many great on-screen teachers. Now an octopus joins their ranks, thanks to a new Netflix documentary – My Octopus Teacher. It’s a fascinating, beautifully scored – and at times deeply moving – account of how filmmaker Craig Foster formed … Read more