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Cruise ships pictured in amazing locations around the world

MailOnline Travel reveals some of the epic scenery you could soak up on a cruising adventure, with Norwegian fjords (centre), jaw-dropping Caribbean islands (bottom right) and historic cities among the mix. For for the more intrepid traveller, there are expedition cruises venturing to the likes of the Galapagos, Antarctica and the North Pole. Pictured top left is the Sapphire Princess in Alaska, pictured bottom left is the Viking Star in London and top right the Viking Sea in Venice.

The stunning winning images of the 2019 Sony Photography Awards revealed 

What do you get when you cross a superb eye for detail with some nifty camera skills? An award-winning shot. The stunning winning images of the 2019 Sony World Photography Awards have been revealed. The coveted photographer of the year title was presented to 35-year-old Italian artist Federico Borella for his series Five Degrees. The photographer, who was awarded a $25,000 (£19,200) cash prize, used his images to explore the link between male suicide in a drought-hit region of southern India and climate change. Pictured from top left, clockwise: An underwater shot in Hawaii by Christy Lee Rogers, an image of orange pickers in Seville by Sergi Villanueva, one of Federico Borella's winning pictures and a landscaping project in China captured by Yan Wang Preston.

British Airways has started offering direct flights to Charleston for the first time. Mark Palmer visited and found it is awash with ravishing Georgian architecture, terrific food and spectacular beaches.

Monkey Island Estate lies on an island in the River Thames in the village of Bray. Stephen Bayley visited and was impressed with the grounds but had a few 'quibbles' with his room...

Sunny Beach, on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, has roughly 800 hotels and they are preparing to welcome an annual army of tourists which will arrive from next month.

The Daily Mail's Bill Coles joined Make My Day for a bespoke adventure in Edinburgh. The tour kicked off with a bike ride along the old railways and ended with a visit to the spookiest part of the city.

Here's what to see and do in Dubrovnik - from a guided tour of where Game of Thrones was filmed to the coolest spot for a drink. And buy a city pass for access to museums and more...

The 25,000 square foot home boasts an additional 20,000 square feet of outdoor space nestled in the hills of southern California where it overlooks the Los Angeles skyline.

A small amount of duty-free into Northern Cyprus is acceptable, head to Paris on the Eurostar and then onto Switzlerland, and always look for the 'no single supplement' box, explains the holiday guru.

Tigris, a triple-launch steel coaster, is making its debut today at the Busch Gardens theme park in Tampa Bay. The 1,800 feet steel track of the ride is designed to mimic the agility of a tiger.

Theresa May popped over to Wales for a quick walking holiday earlier this week, but we think a longer getaway is in order. Here are some suggestions on where the PM should have gone...

Six months after California's worst ever wildfires it's business as usual for Napa Valley. Jonathan Ray visited the state's leading wine region to experience its world renowned wines.

Despite the fact that Norway is said to be one of the most gender-equal countries in the world, Norwegian Air has employed a strict 22-page dress code.

A month's stay on the very remote volcanic island of Karkar in Papua New Guinea

MailOnline Travel's Sadie Whitelocks (inset) ventured to Karkar island off the north coast of Papua New Guinea to find her estranged great uncle, who moved there more than 50 years ago. The small outcrop, which is just 24km long and 19km wide, is home to a very active volcano (top left and right), cocoa plantations that supply M&S; with chocolate beans, vast swathes of jungle and axe-wielding locals who aren't keen on foreigners exploring the terrain...

The Dublin-based no-frills airline has introduced the feature on its mobile app, which allows passengers to scan their bags using their phone's camera. The app will indicate whether any fees need to be paid.

Berkshire-based company Fuel Matrix argues that most flights carry about one per cent more fuel than they need because pilots aren't accurately able to calculate their loaded planes' weights.

Dustin Grevemberg from Louisiana and his wife Noami from Trinidad sold most of their items three years ago to buy a 1985 Volkswagen Vanagon to live and travel in.

Astronauts aboard the ISS have captured an incredible image of the UK and its surrounding waters while the craft was in low orbit on the 26th February at exactly 9.25am.

Property rental platform Airbnb now offers dozens of places to stay where the owner specifies it is for vegans and vegetarians only.

Scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre has produced a heat map of Earth's 'skin' surface layer by satellite imaging that show rising surface temperatures between 2003 and 2017.

A review of the Relais Bernard Loiseau hotel in Burgundy, France

Fiona Hardcastle found that the Relais Bernard Loiseau hotel in Saulieu, in the heart of Burgundy, France, is a foodie's paradise. It is named after its former head chef (inset), who committed suicide in 2003 upon hearing rumours that he was about to lose one of his three Michelin stars. The hotel is run to exacting standards by his widow, Dominique. The restaurant currently has two Michelin stars and Fiona was bowled over by the nine-course tasting menu there. Find out why she rated the hotel five out of five all round.

The beloved wombat named Winnie was a popular addition at the National Zoo and Aquarium in Canberra, where she had spent most her life.

A 53-year-old man living in Wuhan, China came up with a way to beat the rush hour commute - by swimming 2,200 metres (1.36 miles) across the Yangtze River to get to his office.

Now THAT'S a leap of faith: What it's like to freefall at 90mph down a 200ft drop... on the end of a VERY long rope

MailOnline Travel's Sadie Whitelocks signed up for the Shotover Canyon Swing in Queenstown, New Zealand. It's the world's highest cliff jump. And she's scared of heights...But she fought past the terror in the name of travel journalism.

The new seat, called the Settee Corner, has been designed by the European-based plane manufacturer's interior services, and has been created specifically for business class cabins.

Belfast has seen a boom in tourism thanks to Game of Thrones being filmed in the city and around Northern Ireland. Steven Donn took his family to discover its place in film and TV history.

Conde Nast Traveller's hottest new places to stay in 2019 revealed

Out with the old, in with the new - and the new that's 'in'. Conde Nast Traveller has revealed its 2019 Hot List of the best new places to stay from around the world - and it's not hard to see why they made the list. We're talking jaws on the floor ahoy. Here are MailOnline Travel's 10 favourite hotels from the 66 that make the cut. Pictured clockwise from top left: Can Bordoy, Mallorca; Joali, Maldives; Bulgari Hotel, Shanghai; Shinta Mani Wild, Cambodia, and, inset, Hotel Peter & Paul, New Orleans.

Wedding photographers Aaron, 45, and Philan Tokarz, 43, from Illinois, purchased a school bus for just $4,000 (£3,060) and spent $30,000 (£23,000) converting it into a home on wheels.

Japan's Hipopo Papa Cafe spends over £200k installing a toilet that's surrounded by a huge

When nature calls for visitors to the Hipopo Papa Cafe, in Akashi on the Hayashizaki Matsue Coast, they can relieve themselves on a loo that's surrounded by exotic fish - and a male turtle.

We are delighted to bring you the chance to understand the heroic deeds of those who were involved on D-Day in June 1944 in the company of Dan Snow on this six-day round trip.

The Mail on Sunday's Neil Armstrong was treated like a king when he visited Langley Castle in Northumberland. The hotel is the North East England Hotel of the Year, a title it has won six times.

Meet the female WestJet pilot Emilie Christine who has propelled herself to Instagram fame

First officer Emilie Christine, 31, from Toronto, Canada, has over 38,000 followers on social media. She got her commercial pilot's licence in 2012 and works for Canadian airline WestJet. Emilie flies a Dash 8-Q400 plane and has anywhere between 12 and 16 flights each week. So far, Emilie has visited countries including Iceland, Croatia (top right), France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Peru, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Republic of the Congo, Rwanda (top left), Australia and the Bahamas.

Courses and food tours are booming across India, says Neil Simpson, with holidaymakers keen to learn how to rustle up flavoursome local cuisine.

Scientists used fish carcasses to bait wildlife to riverbeds in Chernobyl. The hidden cameras snapped a picture of an otter. In 2015, another study found wolves living in the zone.

Rio really rocks! How to navigate Brazil's legendary city, packed with art, style and

If you want the ultimate beach break in a city that's stunning, surprising and sexy, then The Mail on Sunday's Neil Simpson suggests hitting Rio. Norwegian is now running cheap flights there. Pictured from top left, clockwise: Copacabana beach, a female dancer wearing carnival attire, Christ the Redeemer overlooking the Bay of Botafogo and the colourful Escadaria Selaron Steps.

Laurence Fox visited the Barberyn retreat in Beruwala, on Sri Lanka's west coast, to undergo a 'no-frills detox'. He met with an Ayurvedic doctor and enjoyed beach walks and restorative massages.

Could this be the ultimate hack for train travellers? 'Split ticketing' or 'fare splitting' can save you as much as 90 per cent off the price offered by a train operator. We investigate...

Hiker Tim Voors' stunning images of his 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail trek

The trail stretches from southern California to the border of Canada and explorer Tim Voors had to learn to navigate bear territory and plan his food supply - and carried everything he needed to survive in both blistering heat and freezing snow storms. He charts his journey in a stunning new book, The Great Alone - Walking the Pacific Crest Trail. Here we present some of the amazing pictures that adorn the tome.

Nigel Colborn presents a varied selection of Britain's most inspiring spring gardens, with mazes, fragrant bluebell woods, impressive greenhouses and appetising tea rooms among the highlights.

Planning a visit to Marseille? Stay at hip hotel Mama Shelter, buy a 48-hour City Pass - and you must try the city's traditional fish stew, advises the Daily Mail's Tom Chesshyre.

Cabin designer Ross Burns from Aim Altitude wants to revolutionise air travel

Plane cabins resembling a cross between a restaurant, sports bar, living room and a shop could be coming to a flight path near you in the near future. That's if a certain British aircraft interior designer and his team get their way. Ross Burns is the lead designer of cabin interiors at Bournemouth-based Aim Altitude, the company behind the bar areas on Emirates and Virgin Atlantic. Now they've created a social space concept called 'Ultraflex', reminiscent of Virgin's sofa-clad 'loft' area for the A350 - but even more radical.

Mannings in Truro has 30 rooms and nine apartments fronting a car park. The Inspector checked into an apartment which he found to be chilly and scented with the 'whiff of old shoes'.

Ludbeck is a tiny delight of a medieval city, an hour from Hamburg. The Daily Mail's Kate Johnson visited its most famous sweet shop, Niederegger, where they have floors or truffles and marzipan.

Cruising from Sydney to Papua New Guinea isn't easy, UK walking breaks are perfect for singletons and attending a Papal ceremony requires lots of planning, the holiday guru explains.

Patrick Leigh Fermor, known to his friends as Paddy, was a British author and soldier during WWII. Here his biographer reveals how he fell in love with the Mani Peninsula in Southern Greece.

Jet2.com takes home five prizes in total, with other winners including Qatar Airways and Emirates. Virgin Atlantic takes home two prizes - and EVA Air finishes very highly in the global ranking.

The 700ft building has more than 300 panes of glass, 1,400 seats and 11 gates and air bridges, and is the first completed phase of a £1billion transformation programme at Manchester Airport.

The hilarious Instagram account that's packed with pictures of Belgium's ugliest houses

Most Instagram accounts are packed with glossy pictures showing off the finer things in life. But Belgian Instagrammer Hannes Coudenys prefers the ugly side. Specifically, houses in his homeland that are so wretchedly awful – it’s funny. His Instagram account, called Ugly Belgian Houses, contains over 1,400 pictures of houses that are, well – peculiar. The images and the witty comments that come with them have landed him over 55,000 followers. He has even released a book featuring his pictures called Ugly Belgian Houses: Don't Try This At Home.

Festival season is about to kick off and as ever it'll be starting in style with the phenomenon that is Coachella.

American travel bloggers Kelly and Kody, who are based in Bali, has come under fire online for posing on the edge of an infinity pool to capture the perfect photo for Instagram.

HBO has announced it's opening The Game of Thrones Studio Tour in Northern Ireland in Spring 2020. The tour will bring visitors face-to-face with original sets, costumes and props from the show.

Stunning winning entries to the Travel Photographer of the Year awards

Is your holiday album hiding an award-winning shot? Well, it might be worth digging through your pictures as the 2019 international Travel Photographer of the Year awards (TPOTY) is now accepting entries and various prizes - including a Northern Lights and whale watching trip - are up for grabs. If you're unsure if you've got what it takes, it might be worth checking out some of the jaw-dropping shots from the past 16 years the competition has been running. Pictured from top left, clockwise: Manhattan's iconic Flatiron building in the snow, a bloody-faced lion cub in Tanzania, a meerkat waking up in South Africa and a polar bear off the coast of Svalbard following a seal dinner.

Bizarre Tunisian hotel thought to have inspired Star Wars Sandcrawler tank may be

Hotel du Lac (main) has been a landmark in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, thanks to its inverted pyramid aesthetics. But now, abandoned and exposed to the elements, its fate hangs in the balance as architects believe it could cost more to restore it than to replace it. The hotel opened in 1973, then Tunisia was chosen as a filming location for the desert scenes in the very first Star Wars film. That movie featured the Sandcrawler (inset), a huge mobile fortress used for transport and shelter by the scavenging Jawas. Due to its similarity to the hotel, Star Wars fans couldn't help but wonder if creator George Lucas was inspired by the building.

The US-based carrier, known for low fares, announced earlier this week it will be introducing new routes between the two US cities and the British capital from 2021.

The aluminium can, which features the faded logo of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, was among more than 400 items of rubbish collected from Cramond Beach in Edinburgh.

Harry Potter fans treated to a new Dark Arts light show on Hogwarts Castle at Universal

The Dark Arts at Hogwarts Castle show is running nightly until the end of the month at the Hollywood theme park. The show received its media premiere on Thursday, which saw hundreds of guests gathered in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter to watch a mesmerising display of lights, music and special effects. The show sees some of the movies' darkest creatures and villains unleashed, including the powerful dark wizard, Lord Voldemort.

The male southern white rhino calf, nicknamed Da Zhuang or 'Big Strong', enjoyed a hearty meal with his mother as he made his public debut last week in Chimelong Safari Park in southern China.

A powerful photograph of a two-year-old girl crying while her mother is detained by US border patrol near Mexico has been named the best photo of the year at a prestigious ceremony.

Tourists draw famous landmarks from memory with some VERY mixed results

UK and U.S tourists were asked to draw some of the world's most famous landmarks from memory and the results range from the amazingly good to the shockingly bad. And overall, it seems that it's Americans who are the better artists with higher accuracy scores than the Brits. In total, 132 people aged 18 to 64 were asked for their renditions of 12 of the world's most recognisable tourist attractions, with the Statue of Liberty the best-drawn and Dubai's Burj Khalifa the least accurately rendered.

Western Europe’s tallest building is set to be erected in the tiny rural town of Brande in Denmark. It will be the headquarters of fashion giant Bestseller, founded in the town in 1975.

From Scotland to New Zealand via California, they are stunning properties that offer great big windows to the world (or lots and lots of little ones).

Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park London to fully reopen Monday having undergone a £100m

Stunning photos show what the historic Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park London hotel now looks like following its pricey makeover, with it set to finally fully re-open on Monday. Bedrooms are decked out with contemporary furnishings, the bathrooms clad in sparkling marble and the spa area has been spruced up with a shimmering pool and 13 state-of-the-art treatment rooms. Pictured from top left clockwise to centre: The swimming pool, a superior suite, a bathroom in one of the two penthouses, the entrance to the grand ballroom and an exterior shot of the sprawling building.

The flight was scheduled to leave Copenhagen this lunchtime en-route to the Italian city in Tuscany but before take-off, the pilot discovered the aircraft did not have a programmed route to Florence.

Green sea turtles return to the exact spot where they were born to lay their eggs, but instead of finding a beach this turtle in Noonu Atoll in the Maldives found only tarmac.

The world's best tall buildings for 2019 revealed by the Council On Tall Buildings And

The Chicago-based Council On Tall Buildings And Urban Habitat (CTBUH) hands out awards to skyscrapers and other developments it believes are creatively designed and blend in with their cities. Pictured are some of the winners: the Amorepacific Headquarters in Seoul (top left), The Pinnacle@Duxton, Singapore (top right), the headquarters of Shenzhen Energy in China (bottom left), the Morpheus hotel in Macau (bottom right) and the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco (inset).

Studying the eruption of Anak Krakatau, new simulations are helping researchers to better understand how the island's explosion in 2018 set off a devastating tsunami

Avebury henge sits 20 miles from its more famous neighbour, Stonehenge, and boasts the world's largest stone circle. But, research suggests its origins were simpler than one might expect.

Full beam ahead for the weekend! Six of the best lighthouse holiday rentals

Just over 20 years ago on the Kentish coast, Dermot Cronin was retired as Britain's last lighthouse keeper when automation took over. Many others were decommissioned and now operate as highly unusual self-catering or bed and breakfast establishments. Rob Crossan chooses six of the best. Pictured: Sally Port Cottage, Cornwall (main); St Abb's lighthouse (top right), Berwickshire, and bottom right, North Foreland lighthouse, where Mr Cronin worked.

The pilots' union Balpa has rejected two separate new pay deals on behalf of its members who work for the British flag carrier, claiming that they are less than inflation and therefore amount to a pay cut.

It is the 10th time in 20 years that the hub has scooped the top gong at the Skytrax World Airport Awards, this year beating Tokyo's Haneda International into second place.

Mini bar? Check. TV? Check? Private chef? Check. Thirteen bedrooms? Check. Step inside the globe's best presidential suites, which transport guests to a world of unparalleled luxury.

The world's highest settlements revealed from the Peak District and the Rockies to Peru

Some people really do live the high life - because they call extremely lofty settlements home. Here MailOnline Travel reveals, in ascending order, the world's highest hamlets, towns and cities. Some are accessible only by dangerous hairpin-laden roads, some are snowed in for half the year and some are so remote the only TripAdvisor reviews are for the local volcanoes. Pictured clockwise from top left: Shimshal, Pakistan (10,200ft); La Rinconada, Peru (16,728ft); Kibber, India (14,200ft); La Paz, Bolivia (11,942ft) and (inset) Ushguli, Georgia (6,900ft).

Inside Virgin Atlantic's new Airbus A350 cabin

Virgin Atlantic has unveiled the cabin for its new Airbus A350-1000 aircraft – and it has been transformed throughout. The business class section (main and top right), which Virgin Atlantic calls 'Upper Class', features brand new suites and a 'social space' called 'The Loft' (bottom right). The carrier operates bars on all its long-haul aircraft, but said that this is 'the largest social space in the airline's fleet'.

The images were captured this morning at Heathrow Airport - and the four planes were snapped alongside an A319 in the airline's current design to highlight how the livery has evolved.

More stunning entries to the 2019 National Geographic Travel Photo Contest

The jaw-dropping entries for the 2019 National Geographic Travel Photo Contest keep on coming. Here we present 10 more that have impressed the judges – and it’s clear they’ve got their work cut out. There’s a stunning snap of UFO-like clouds hovering over jagged peaks in the Dolomites (main), an electrifying image of a lightning strike behind the Acropolis in Greece (bottom left) and a mesmerising picture of the Taj Mahal silhouetted at sunrise (bottom right). This sneak peek also includes a superb aerial shot of Manhattan and an osprey captured speeding through the air with a freshly caught fish.

The travel platform will now offer cruisers in both the UK and the US the chance to read and write reviews of cruise holidays, share photos and shop for trips from over 70,000 options.

Train station Seiryu-Miharashi in Japan exists purely so passengers can admire the view

Located on the Nishikigawa Seiryu line in the south of the country, the station is called Seiryu-Miharashi, which translates to 'clear stream viewing platform station'. Travellers who get off there while the train pauses get amazing views of the Nishiki River and the surrounding forest.

Authors suggest that glaciers could almost disappear in some mountain ranges by 2100 (including the Caucasus, Central Europe, Western Canada and the USA and New Zealand).

Tourists quit dreadful Catalonia Punta Del Rey Tenerife Tui hotel just two hours into

Lee Parker, from Beccles, Suffolk, checked into the Catalonia Punta Del Rey in Las Caletillas, Tenerife, expecting a four-star hotel. However, he claims that when he complained to a Tui rep, they admitted the hotel had been wrongly graded and Mr Parker was forced to shell out an extra £1,200 for alternative accommodation. This was on top of the £1,200 he had already paid for the holiday for him and his teenage daughter, Sophie (inset with her father).

The Qasr Al Watan, which is inside the presidential compound, is being billed as a new landmark and a place where tourists can learn about the culture of the United Arab Emirates.

The winners were determined using an algorithm that analyses reviews and ratings for hotels, restaurants and attractions in a single year from TripAdvisor travellers worldwide.

Artist Jake Berman's maps of America's old public transit systems versus the modern day

They have been drawn by New York-based artist Jake Berman. The catalyst for the project, he explained, was being stuck in traffic in Los Angeles and finding himself feeling ‘frustrated at the lack of good mass transit’. So Mr Berman, who was born in San Francisco, set about redrawing old transit system maps, using copies from university collections and public libraries, and modern equivalents using maps put out by each city’s respective mass transit authority. The result is fascinating. Some systems have remained largely intact, while others have been decimated. He said: 'This project is to map the lost subway and streetcar systems of North America. Unlike Western Europe and Japan, which rebuilt their mass transit after World War II, the U.S. and Canada spent three decades tearing out their mass transit and building enormous freeway systems.'

Flyers may be accustomed to shopping around for the best deal on flights, but it also pays to know how you can choose a better seat in economy class, how much it will cost and when you can do it.

Richard Branson was in Miami for the unveiling of his branded signage at Miami station during a public rollout of Virgin Group's partnership with Florida's Brightline service.

This year’s UK Heritage Awards winners are crowned across 12 categories, which include hidden gems, best exhibition, best wedding venue and outstanding customer service.

The futuristic 52,000-square-metre structure on Doha's waterfront corniche will be the first notable building visitors to Qatar see as they make their way from the airport to the city centre.

Guernsey mansion where Victor Hugo penned Les Miserable opens after a stunning £3.8million

Hauteville House in Guernsey had been closed for 18 months while being extensively restored to its former glory. And yesterday, the home, which is now a museum, finally opened to the public once again. The house, which usually welcomes 20,000 visitors a year between April and September, has been given a number of improvements. Among the renovation works, furniture collected by Hugo from all over the world has been reconditioned, the conservatories have been rebuilt to bring more light into the house and the garden has been re-laid to how it was originally conceived by Hugo.

The ranking comes from academics at Wichita State University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. They measured US airlines by how often flights arrive on time and other statistical measures.

Hammam Essalihine in Khenchela, Algeria, dates back to the time of the Flavian Dynasty and its waters are touted as having 'therapeutic benefits'.

Incredible images capture the beauty of the world's most stunning castles 

They may have been built hundreds of years ago - but castles continue to capture the imagination today. And these incredible images show why. They appear in a fascinating new book called Castles of the World by Phyllis Jestice, which examines more than 150 fortifications from across the world, from 5th century fortresses and fairy-tale Alpine wonders to Norman keeps and Samurai strongholds. Jestice says: 'This book is a beautiful examination of past worlds viewed through castles that continue to enrich the modern landscape. They evoke an imagined age of aristocratic warriors and noble aspirations for which many people still yearn today.' Pictured clockwise from top left: Eltz Castle in Germany; Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk; Oberhifen Castle in Switzerland; Coca Castle in Spain and (inset) Beersel Castle in Belgium.

Complex airline economics mean that on most planes, almost every passenger will have paid a different fare. Here are six ways to get a cheap seat, according to the Holiday Hero.

While Munich is shamelessly carnivorous with immense beer cellars, contemporary cool is also to be found in the German city thanks to its hip art scene and burgeoning veggie restaurants.

Discovering why Leonardo DiCaprio and Madonna love Ibiza

If you thought Ibiza was all wasted, semi-naked millennials, you couldn’t be further from the truth. Jet-setters and celebrities now flock to the mystical White Isle in ever greater numbers, edging and pricing out the tacky ravers. Ever since Errol Flynn moored his boat to party there with the Hollywood crowd at Sandy’s bar in Santa Eulalia in the Swinging Sixties, the island has had a showbiz party reputation. Now it attracts stars including Leonardo DiCaprio (inset), Madonna and Kylie Minogue. Sarah White finds out why, with her mission including a stay at the hyper-swanky Atzaro Hotel.

The new design, called Skyrider 3.0, is similar to previous incarnations of the seat. However, it does not have a pole between the seats to connect them to the floor and ceiling, as the previous version did.

After a trip to Venice that didn't go so well, Charlotte Metcalf and her teenage daughter Deia decided to head for Malta to check out the island's sightseeing, shopping and restaurant scene.

Fed up with Brexit and endless gloomy news? You need our guide to remote boltholes

Dan Richards has spent years seeking the farthest-flung outposts — beacons, shebangs, mountain expedition stations, tundra, forests, and oceans. Here he reveals his favourite peaceful destinations. They include the Greek island of Spetses (top left), Kootenai National Forest, Montana (top right), Belle Tout lighthouse at Beachy Head by the English Channel (bottom left) and Svalbard in Norway (bottom right).

The Good Hotel offers hospitality training to the unemployed in East London via a shared scheme with Newham Council. And the Inspector left knowing that he had made a difference.

A cruise without booze is a challenge but visiting a dry country, like Iran, pictured, may work for a recovering alcoholic. And going to French Guiana will involve a Paris layover, as the holiday guru explains.

Heart-stopping pictures show daredevils somersaulting on precipices and dangling from

These pictures will make even the most confident climber's palms sweat. That's because they show some of the world's bravest daredevils proving that they have limitless reserves of derring-do. One is pictured sitting on the edge of a skyscraper in New York's Times Square (bottom left), one somersaults on a precipice in Norway (top left) with a 2,300ft drop and another takes a lie down on the arm of a massive crane without a harness. The gallery of images also includes a snap of a pair of newlyweds in New Hampshire in their finery negotiating a sheer cliff face (bottom right). And let's not forget the image of a climber hanging like a bat hundreds of feet up.

These are the winning still images in the SkyPixel 2018 Aerial Storytelling Contest , which attracted over 30,000 submissions from drone photographers and videographers from 141 countries.

The Sala VIP lounge at Quito Airport claimed the top prize in the Global Airport Lounge of the Year Awards, which rates business facilities, comfort, service and food and drink.

Qatar Airways’ business class named as best cabin experience in Pax International

Qatar Airways' business class suites have been named as the best cabin experience at a prestigious awards ceremony. The Pax International Readership Awards 2019 honoured airlines from around the world with gongs handed out in categories including food service, amenity kits and catering. Air Canada was named as having the best food service for a North American airline while American Airlines came top in the first class amenity kit ranking. The awards were voted for by readers of Pax International, a publication that focuses on passenger services and in-flight interiors. The publication's title refers to the term used by airline workers to describe passengers. More than 35 gongs were handed out to airlines and their suppliers at a ceremony in Hamburg on Wednesday.

The famous portrait artist was born in 1727 in Sudbury. Harry Mount went to visit the picture perfect town as well as some of the beautiful villages in surrounding rural Suffolk.

Zanzibar is not just exotic, it's rock'n'roll. Queen frontman Freddie Mercury was born here and visitors are prone to taking selfies outside his old home, now known as Mercury House.

Many Berbers still live in or near the desert, remaining loyal to their traditions. Angella Johnson visited the remote Nubia Desert Camp in Morocco - eager to experience their way of life.

Arles in southern France is where Van Gogh became stranded in 1888. It is home to the hospital where his ear was treated and a roundabout where his home - the Yellow House - once stood.

This exclusive offer includes eight nights on an escorted tour around the island of Bali before a four-night sailing on Voyager of the Seas to Singapore, where the trip ends with a stay in the city state.

The Moor of Rannoch hotel, set on the edge of Rannoch Moor in Perthshire, is one of Britain’s most expansive wildernesses. Sally Hamilton stayed there and says it is a Highland treat.

They are actually wacky tents offered as accommodation by the National Trust and hang from trees at the Low Wray camp site close to the shores of Lake Windermere in Cumbria.

Amazing spiral treetop walkway inside a 148ft-tall observation tower opens in a preserved forest in Denmark

It's part of the Camp Adventure Climbing Park, one hour south of Copenhagen on the island of Zealand, which at 18 acres is the largest woodland adventure park in Denmark. The hourglass-shaped tower is the first of its kind in Scandinavia and allows visitors to get closer to nature. It has 10 climbing courses that all vary in height and visitors can move from tree to tree via different obstacles or zip lines - two of them being the longest zip lines in Denmark. The winding 650-metre-long (2,130ft) twisted ramp, which includes looping pathways and bleacher seating, provides a 360-degree bird's-eye view of the forest and can accommodate 10,000 people at a time.

After a long panto season stage-weary Jonathan Wilkes swapped Stoke-on-Trent for the Caribbean sunshine. During two weeks with P&O; cruises he sampled the best the islands have to offer.

Post Office Travel Money Holiday Costs Barometer, which compares costs in 20 European beach resorts, found prices in Sunny Beach have plunged - despite the pound's volatility.

Airbnb will transform the Louvre’s Pyramid into a bedroom and let guests drink with the

Art fans are being given the chance to spend a night at the world's most popular museum alongside its stunning masterpieces. Airbnb has teamed up with the Louvre to let one lucky winner and a guest see what happens inside the building once the lights go out. They will sleep in the famous glass pyramid, which has been transformed into a bedroom, drink cocktails in front of the Mona Lisa and have dinner in the company of the Venus de Milo.

A collection of vintage railway posters are being sold after being unearthed under a pile of knick-knacks at the back of a cupboard in the flat of a late elderly couple in Perthshire, Scotland.

Malcolm Robertson, a photographer and Scottish father-of-two, shared the snap of a beach on the island of Iona. The photograph quickly went viral, as Twitter users were amazed.

Images from book by Dan Barasch show how abandoned buildings have been given new leases of

They've been published in a brand new book called Ruin and Redemption in Architecture by Dan Barasch, which charts ruined spaces and the extraordinary designs that have totally transformed them. The scale and diversity of abandoned buildings and their redesigns is shown through examples from all around the world. They include a former industrial grain storage facility in Deneveter in the Netherlands, which has been transformed into a trendy new food court. Others featured are the transformed Gucci hub in Milan, which used to be an aircraft factory, and a sugar mill in China that is now a stylish hotel. Pictured: A former cement factory in Spain that's now an architect's home and office (top) and the once dilapidated warehouses in Paris that are now trendy exhibition spaces (bottom).

The new A380 will enter service on May 24, travelling between Tokyo and Honolulu. Its livery is called 'flying honu', with honu being a Hawaiian term of endearment used towards the sea turtle.

'Public' hotel in New York sits on the site of a former car park. It has 364 guest rooms, three penthouses, two bars and a restaurant. What it does not have is the traditional hotel vibe, writes William Hanson.

On the roof of the Grand Daddy Hotel in Cape Town are seven authentic Airstream trailers that have been shipped in from America. Ted Thornhill paid it a visit.

The research, by consumer group Which?, looked at 17 river cruise companies and asked over 1,700 passengers to rate their experiences out of five across nine categories.

Fascinating time-lapse footage shows a £2million skeleton of a 155million-year-old dinosaur being installed at Heathrow Airport

The 13-metre-long skeleton is located in Terminal 5 and is on show before being sold by the French auction house Aguttes. It will remain in the terminal's check-in area until early June and will be seen by millions of passengers. Footage taken of the skeleton's installation shows how crews worked quickly over the course of three nights to painstakingly assemble it bone by bone.

Amsterdam opens ‘5D Porn’ sex cinema in its Red Light District

The movies screened have been made exclusively for the experience, in collaboration with porn star Kim Holland. Customers watch X-rated movies shown in 3D and with a variety of sensory effects - wind, water, bubbles, lights and snow - that sync with the action. The cinema is located in Amsterdam's medieval centre.

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