This month’s article by The Luxury Safari Company explores some different ways to combine spotting wildlife in the African bush with a relaxing holiday by the sea. Indian Ocean holiday The luxury African safari and beach combination … has provoked much debate.  Of course there are hundreds and hundreds of...

We could hear the honking as soon as we got out of the car.  We could also smell the pungent whiff of rotting seaweed and salty sea air.  There before us were dozens of seals of all ages.  Bulls lolloping around like pashas in a harem, females with flippers in...

In this guest post, Sally Fielding, owner of family-run Sally’s Cottages, shares some of her favourite, and less known, places in the Lake District in Cumbria. Middle Row Cottage I’ve lived in the Lake District my whole life and I’ve discovered some truly memorable places. Many of these aren’t mentioned...

Musician Stan Cullimore, former member of the 80’s band The Housemartins, shares his memories of a  recent boating holiday on one of England’s many charming canals. This morning I got out of bed, opened the curtains and looked out of the window. First thing I saw was a man on...

“One grey morning the first snow began to fall in the Valley of the Moomins, It fell softly and quietly and in a few hours everything was white.”   Opening lines of ‘Finn Family Moomintroll’. And snow has fallen recently at Kirkenes, a few miles from the Russian border at the very top...

When was the last time you had really good fun? Enjoy your holiday from a completely different point of view – the sea!  If you like travelling around the world, there's an original way to rediscover your favorite destinations: yacht charter. Today we look at a few top Europe destinations and recommend...

It looked like a giant Hershey Kiss; a chocolate cone dusted with icing sugar rising from the freezing waters of the Norwegian Sea.  Snow swirled from its peak as enormous seabirds wheeled above. This first view of Arctic Norway in daylight was breathtaking.  Not just because of the icy wind...