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In the wet winter of 2006, an avalanche of rock, mud and splintered trees thundered into the valley of the Kaaimans River and buried the spectacular George-to-Knysna railway under a mountain of debris. Read More…
(Image: Alan Cleaver. Source: www.ecosalon.com)
If you’re a surfer in Britain, you will know all about ear, nose and throat infections picked-up by surfing in the foul water off Britain’s coast. The cause? Look no further than the 22 000 combined sewer overflows around the country, 500 of which are near beaches. “There’s plenty of times I go out and I’m sharing the waves with a turd,” a Newquay surfer once told me. Read More…
The “international community” thinks South African passports are suspect, thanks to deep-rooted corruption at the Home Affairs department, Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Monday.
She told reporters at the National Press Club that “We can no longer be sure whether the person in possession of a South African passport is 100% South African”.
There was a brief and happy period in the 90s and early this century when the Green Mamba was an easy passport to travel on. Quite easy to obtain, too, it appears.
Monty’s Cottage, scene of mayhem, poaching, hard drinking and attempted burglary in the film Withnail & I is one of the nicest destinations I have been to this year. Read More…
Plenty of airlines have been slashing fares to try and encourage business, and British Airways is no exception. Read More…
Oddities, weirdness and snooping lead the charge in the world of travel this week.
ALMOST A VERY BAD DAY: A suicidal passenger on an Air France flight tried to pop a door open at 32 000 feet – the result would have been an explosive decompression which can be catastrophic for an airliner and its frail cargo, and would be nothing like the tranquil scene depicted on the safety card above. The passenger, who is currently on trial, said she didn’t care about her fellow passengers. Nice. Read More…
My learned colleague, Sunday Times books editor Tymon Smith, groaned loudly at The Telegraph’s list of best travel books ever. Within seconds, Smith had trumped my list with his, or, rather Condé Nast Traveler’s list of 86 of the world’s best travel books. Read More…
Mark Smith is the rail travel guru, doing for passenger trains what the world’s rail companies seem unable to do for themselves: make them desirable to ride.
His website, The Man In Seat 61, has been around for some years during which time it has become the world’s greatest source of rail travel information, starting with routes and timetables, pictures of the sleeping car accommodations (obvious, you’d think, but it’s shocking how few travel sites get little things like this right), and itineraries for travelling in just about any country you’d care to mention. Read More…
On The Road? One of the best travel books ever? Are they kidding. The howls of protest rise up to heaven.
Consider that people have been writing, or at least publishing their travels, ever since humans first learned to make paints and dabble on rocks – rock blogging, if you like – then you have to wonder how On The Road makes it into the top 20. Read More…
A fabulous park is rising above New York’s mean streets. The new green belt – 22 city blocks, or about 2.4km – will reach up along the west side of Manhattan, from the Meatpacking District to around 34th Street. Read More…
