Started in 2015, Women in Aviation India (WAI) is an NGO which works to spread awareness and knowledge about job opportunities for women in the country’s ever-expanding aviation industry and also acknowledge excellence. As WAI is preparing to host the third annual ‘Giving Wings to Dreams Awards 2024’ later this week, Radha Bhatia, president of…
With no television or phone signal, we had no option but to disconnect from everyday life and appreciate the woods, rivers and fells If you want to reach Shank Wood log cabin, the key is to keep going: to the very top of England; deep into the woods; right to the edge of a river….
Lakes, saunas, art, food – and Hamlet’s castle. A whistlestop tour of the best that Denmark has to offer Don’t make small talk with strangers. Or talk about the weather. Or even ask people you know how they are… I read these social etiquette tips in a Denmark travel guide – four days into a…
An increasing interest in Henry VIII and the new BBC drama about his reign have boosted visitor numbers for castles and palaces used as filming locations and connected to the king A capricious and cruel autocrat handing out privileges and punishments, women struggling to assert themselves, the populist mob at the gate – and through…
This cosy homestead offers all the simple pleasures for a winter escape: great scenery, log burners, no wifi and a pile of paperbacks The lane gets steeper and narrower, the roar of the river louder. We turn to cross the old stone bridge and, two farm gates later, are bouncing up through a forest of gnarly oak and moss-swaddled…
There have been many highlights. In a group of islands off Norway, I saw a total solar eclipse, which was surreal I’ve always been adventurous. That’s why, in 2013, I set myself a goal to travel to every country in the world. I grew up in Louisiana, and my family went on road trips across the…
Our tipsters have found solitude in glorious mountains, islands and coastlines from the Highlands to the Aegean Davaar island, off the Kintyre peninsula in south-west Scotland, is a true getaway: it is connected to the mainland by a shingle causeway, which is only possible to cross when the tide is low. There are a few…
The medieval Lombardy town in the Valtellina Alps will host the skiing in the 2026 Winter Olympics, but for now it’s full of under-the-radar charm Viewed from the top of the 2,255-metre-high Stelvio piste, the town of Bormio far below looks like a Christmas cake, with pine trees and church spires poking out of a…
India has proved to be one of the fastest growing inbound markets for Australia in the last few years and Tourism Australia is hoping the arrival numbers to cross half a million threshold in the next 12 to 18 months.
We visit Wakefield’s rhubarb triangle, Britannia’s westernmost amphitheatre in Carmarthen, and Colne – home of Monty Python’s favourite cobblestones • Where tourists seldom tread, parts 1-12 Actors say “rhubarb” to appear to be chatting. It’s easy to say the word quietly. Here in the national capital of this tasty perennial the stalks are – right…
