Every so often, Jack Sheldon from Jack’s Flight Club selects a flight deal from the UK for Independent readers that you can’t afford to miss. This week: return flights to New York or Boston next summer for £263 return. I often hear from parents and teachers about how expensive it can be to travel over the school
(CNN) — If roaming around au natural is your thing and your birthday suit has deep pockets, you can now buy your own 14-acre nudist retreat. Katikati Naturist Park, located in northern New Zealand in the beautiful Bay of Plenty region, is officially on the market. An outdoor oasis surrounded by greenery and a nearby
JUST Inc.’s Cultured Chicken NuggetsJUST Inc. It’s been a big year for plant-based and cultured meats, but next year could be a turning point. According to the Good Food Institute, an organization that closely watches these industries, sales of plant-based meats grew over 23%, exceeding $760 million. In 2019, look for plant-based and cultured meat companies to navigate new partnerships, new markets
“Politicians always want to blow up cultural bridges. But we will hold on to the last bridge as long as possible.” Last week, in a room overlooking the ice floes of the Neva river in St Petersburg, the director of the Hermitage Museum, Mikhail Piotrovsky, was explaining his views on cultural links. “We can survive
With five days before some pilots at Virgin Atlantic begin a Christmas strike, the airline has revealed plans to charter in extra capacity. Members of the Professional Pilots’ Union (PPU) working for Virgin Atlantic have voted for industrial action in a dispute over union recognition. The union has been seeking recognition from the airline for
(CNN) — It takes just a few bites to see why Din Tai Fung, a Taiwan restaurant chain, has become the world’s most celebrated purveyor of xiaolong bao — pork soup dumplings. To the uninitiated, the plump, ping-pong ball sized dumplings might not look much but each is a tiny, slurpable work of culinary art.
It’s that time of year when travelers around the U.S. are beginning to dream of a white Christmas, and if you’re wondering what your chances are, you’re in luck. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has taken three decades of climatological measurements and combined them into a map showing the historical probability of a white
The cost of the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project, intended to increase capacity between London, the Midlands and the north of England, is under fresh scrutiny. In a BBC Panorama programme, a former HS2 executive has claimed that early estimates of the value of properties along the route that needed to be bought were
(CNN) — For most tourists to Spain, a visit to Cordoba isn’t a must. Barcelona and Seville have been luring visitors for decades, keeping Cordoba, a city in the south with a population of around 330,000, relatively off the map. Around a million people visited Cordoba in 2017, whereas Barcelona and Seville saw 8.9 million
JUST Inc. gave foodies in Shanghai a taste of its plant-based egg, which will launch at food sellers in China early next year.Credit: JUST Inc. JUST Inc. co-founder and CEO Josh Tetrick was in Shanghai last week to celebrate the upcoming launch of JUST Egg, in a country that collectively consumes about one billion chicken
I am sipping a coconut rum at the village home of Mirella, who supplies free-range chickens and eggs to my hotel in Mauritius. Her brother is singing the Mauritian sega, beating out the rhythm on a drum against his chest. Her two-year-old grandson sways to the raw lament, originally brought to the island by African
An Italian airline is now caught in the middle of a simmering dispute over government subsidies between the largest U.S. airlines and state-owned Qatar Airways.
Special counsel Robert Swan Mueller III is the second-most famous man in Washington. Time Magazine just ranked him No. 3 on their Person of the Year list, after crusading journalists and Donald Trump. It is impossible to spend a day in this town without hearing or reading Mueller’s name. He will go down in history,
(CNN) — It’s been nearly a decade since ride-sharing app Uber first arrived on the scene, hitting the streets of San Francisco in 2010. Today, in spite of endless controversies and legal battles, it’s available in hundreds of cities worldwide. That’s a lot of rides. So which attractions are Uber’s customers heading to? The app
Taller than the CN Tower and Kuala Lumpur Tower, Tokyo Skytree is not only one of Tokyo’s most recognizable landmarks, but it offers world-class shopping, dining and incredible views of the city below.©TOKYO-SKYTREE A must-see destination for anyone looking for the best things to do in Japan is a visit to Tokyo Skytree. Owned by TOBU
Eva Jaz writes On Sept 6 I was supposed to fly from Martinique to Paris with Iberia. I booked the flight through Omega Travel, which sent me a flight-change notification in August. The only difference I could see was a different flight number. Omega said I should call to confirm I was happy. I tried
Do you know which architectural wonder this interior belongs to? Find out in our travel quiz © Artur Bogacki / Shutterstock Do you know which country uses baht as a currency? Or where in the UK you’d find the giant cranes ‘Samson and Goliath’? Test your knowledge of travel trivia with the December edition of
(CNN) — A more than 4,000-year-old private tomb containing “exceptionally well-preserved” drawings has been discovered south of Cairo, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities. Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anani said the tomb had been discovered at the Saqqara archaeological site and was from the 5th dynasty of the pharaohs, which ruled roughly 4,400 years ago. The
Millions of immigrants arrived in America via Ellis Island, making it a great place to start researching your family history — Photo courtesy of The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. Genealogy, the study of our lineage, has come a long way since the family trees we used to have to draw in elementary school.
When Steve Fredette, president and co-founder of Toast, launched his startup in 2012 with co-founder Aman Narang, he pretty quickly learned he had created a solution to a problem nobody much cared about. Steve Fredette, president and co-founder of Toast.Courtesy Toast Toast is a restaurant software company based in Boston. Both Fredette and Narang came
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