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An 81-year-old woman opened her front door to see “nothing but rubble” after her garden wall tumbled down a hillside and ended up across the road. Hope Bowker was left trapped in her hillside home for several hours as all four tiers of her Bermuda s...

‘Simple exchanges can break down walls between us, for when people come together and speak to one another and share a common experience, then their common humanity is revealed’ US President Barack Obama. “Why do you want to go to Florence for a sem...

C-Travel will be targeting the younger market catering to the budget and luxury travellers alike, having seen a decline in the corporate side of the business. That is according to Carl Paiva, CEO of C-Travel, who said that cruise and tour sales had h...

I have a confession this week: I went to Barbados for a month and I never swam in the ocean. Yes, I was in a country that others flock to for sun and swimming, but I never took the plunge. Am I crazy? Don't answer that question; instead, hear what I...

SANTA CRUZ, Galapagos Islands (AP) The sea lion nursed her pup under a prickly pear cactus while an iguana clumsily marched away. A tiny penguin waddled on a rock as red and orange crabs clung to the craggy surface below. Welcome to the Galapagos Isl...

“Sir, due to some very serious physics, no matter how much you push you will not be able to get any further ahead.” He had already stepped on my feet, bumped into my bag and made it obvious through his throat clearing that all of this plane loading w...

“Dis ting cyan be over.” Biggie Irie. It’s 8am, I’ve had two hours of sleep, my legs have turned green and yellow from paint and I’m walking through Bridgetown, Barbados sandwiched between two trucks. Don’t worry, I’m not alone. I have been joined ...

“Our Nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.” Blaise Pascal I could hear the rain pelting down. The wind stirred and the house creaked. By daylight the rain had cleared and the sun was out. By the afternoon the clouds gathered again and th...

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” Freya Stark I wish I could say I awoke in Barbados fresh and ready to tackle a month-long course I was attending, but then I would have had to have slept. W...

“The journey not the arrival matters.” TS Eliot Flight 651 to Bridgetown, Barbados: CANCELLED “What! How is that possible?” But it was possible and anyone who thinks I should have put quotations around the first line of this column would be wrong. T...

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” Robert Louis Stevenson Fill out this form. Fill out that form. Wait in line. Visit duty free. Wait in another line. Fingers on the screen, smile and then ... The passport review...