Ambling silently through chartreuse-green reeds, an elephant and her calf have crossed to one of many islands anchored in the Zambezi River. Hot and thirsty, herds are scattered across Zambia’s Lower Zambezi National Park – some feeding on the pods of winter thorn trees arching over dusty banks; others wading through pools of ruby evening light. It’s
Month: November 2020
Commercial air travel has come a long way since the “Golden Age of Travel” — an era marked by glamour, gourmet food and dapper passengers. While complaints about smaller seats and expensive tickets are rife today, a look into the history of commercial aviation shows that today’s customer experience may not be as bad
Glengoyne 50 Year Old Glengoyne Glengoyne has just released its oldest expression yet, a 50-year-old Highland Single Malt, and it’s giving whisky fans an opportunity to snag a bottle of this own for free. “When we first filled hand-selected oak casks with our sweet, fruity, new make spirit back in the late 1960s,” said Hughes
Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — A tiny insect that evaded Australia’s strict biosecurity controls is multiplying and threatening plane safety at Brisbane Airport. Native to Central and South America and the Caribbean, the keyhole wasp first caused problems at the airport in 2013, when it forced an Etihad Airways A330 bound for Singapore to turn back
Diageo 2020 Distillers Edition Diageo Fans of Diageo’s lineup of single malts have something new to be on the hunt for: six new limited-edition single malts from some of its most iconic distilleries. The 2020 Distillers Edition lineup showcases what can happen to whisky when it goes through second maturation in a wine cask. Back
Clean out the fridge and your wine rack in a post-Thanksgiving food + wine mashup Thanksgiving leftovers provide an opportunity for mix and matching your wines Illustration: L bortolot If National Clean Out Your Fridge Day (yes, that’s a thing) is Nov. 15, what do you call the day after Thanksgiving? How about National Eat
The Great British Bake Off has become Paul Hollywood And Everybody Else (Photo by MelMedia/GC … [+] Images) GC Images The Great British Bake Off has crowned the winner of Series 11 (Americans never got to see all of them, but I’ll go with the show’s numbering). There’s a spoiler at the end so stop
Passengers check bags for a Delta Air Lines, Inc. flight during the Covid-19 pandemic at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in Los Angeles, California, November 18, 2020. Patrick Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Delta Air Lines canceled hundreds of flights over the Thanksgiving break as it grappled with staffing shortages during the busiest travel
Long Meadow Ranch’s Anderson Valley vineyards. Kim Westerman The original “California Dream” was a Gold Rush psychological fantasy, a microcosm of Horatio Alger’s myth of picking oneself up by one’s bootstraps (unfortunately popularized by Ronald Reagan in the 1980s) and still weirdly entrenched in the cultural narrative of the U.S. But we all know that
This year has seen the return of the fly-and-flop holiday. According to Skyscanner, 33 per cent of trips booked from June to August were for longer stays (up to 21 days), followed by mid-length stays (four to six days) at 13 per cent. Only 10 per cent of customers booked trips of three days or
Bourbon County Stout Goose Island Brewing Each Black Friday, Chicago’s Goose Island Brewing releases Bourbon County Stout. The beer marks one of the largest events for the brewery each year, and in during non-pandemic time includes a big release-day celebration at Goose Island complete with beer nerds camping out for the night with the hope
Standing on an escarpment, John Kamanga surveys the tangled, brittle grasslands rolled out like a thread-bare, yellowed rug all the way to the foot of Shompole Mountain. Twenty years ago, his Maasai homeland looked very different. “We called this area ‘the dustiest place’,” he recollects, describing a landscape so dry and barren, it was frequently
Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images Remote workers — especially those who have been hopping to different states — could be on the hook for additional taxes when they file their returns next spring. It’s been nine months since the coronavirus pandemic first gripped the U.S. and led to many workers punching in each day
(CNN) — Would you fly on the Boeing 737 MAX? That question is going to become all too real for passengers in the near future when the aircraft that’s been grounded for some 600 days returns to service. The 737 MAX was grounded in March 2019, following two crashes within five months of each other
These are friends that can’t arrive too early or stay too late for your holiday Red wines are your multipurpose, multidimensional friends at Thanksgiving Illustration:LBortolot Italy leads the way in this roundup of reds for Thanksgiving, but we made room for some other standouts—after all, it’s the season of sharing and, we admit, Italy has
(CNN) — For nearly half of the entire history of commercial aviation, long-haul flights have conjured up images of large, wide-bodied aircraft, with two aisles, up to 10 seats in every row, spacious overhead bins and, more recently, shiny on-demand tablet-style entertainment systems. That’s in sharp contrast to smaller narrow-bodied aircraft, with their single aisles,
These are unusual times, and the state of affairs can change quickly. Please check the latest travel guidance before making your journey. Note that our writer visited pre-pandemic. Nourishment for the body and soul A marvellous medieval centre, piles of perfect pasta and a thriving university, which is Europe’s oldest, dating from 1088. Bologna ticks
A sure fire way to distinguish between ‘locals’ and ‘foreigners’ at a Caribbean dinner table is to listen out for the request for ‘pepper sauce,’ a hot and tangy flavouring that is typically made of the indigenous Scotch Bonnet, otherwise known as Scotty Bon, Scotchy, Bonney Pepper or scientifically, Capsicum Chinense. The Scotch Bonnet is
Check out these flexible deals that can be booked into 2021. Whether you’re planning a staycation or an epic adventure, these Black Friday and Cyber Monday travel deals will help you do it for less, with rates starting under $200 per night and most travel dates extending through 2021. Note that blackout dates apply, most
These are unusual times, and the state of affairs can change quickly. Please check the latest travel guidance before making your journey, and note that our writers visited these hotels prior to the coronavirus pandemic One of the best bits of advice about visiting Bruges is to stay a few nights. It’s a tiny historic
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