Category Archives: Travel

West End play stages give ‘white gaze-free’ shows to all-black audiences

Slave Play follows interracial couples undergoing sexual therapy as they play slave and master – MATTHEW MURPHY A West End theater will stage shows for all-black audiences to help ticket holders escape the “white gaze”. Slave Play, starring Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow in Game of Thrones, opens at London’s Noel Coward Theater in… Read More »

Introducing Japan’s Hamptons

Lake Kawaguchiko has stunning views of Mount Fuji It’s all gone, Fuji, at the Lake Kawaguchiko 7-Eleven. Strawberry cheesecake KitKats and absinthe mochi dumplings include blue-hued Fuji bath plugs, Fuji rice crackers, chiffon cake Fuji, Fujisan Blue Cream Soda bottles and do-it-yourself Fujisan Blue Curry Rice cans. The challenge is to make this edible version… Read More »

Why Scotland’s youth hostels are still the best in the world

Writer Mike MacEacheran at Loch Ossian, recently named UK Hostel of the Year Follow the West Highland Railway Line north of Glasgow, on roads winding through Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, to Rannoch Moor, where the weather is clear and a Brigadoon awaits. At least for those who like to holiday next to… Read More »

Your next ski adventure? make Kyrgyzstan

Our writer set out for the Terskey-Ala-Too mountains near Karakol These were the words every off-piste skier longed to hear: “You need fat skis.” The tip comes from our guide Nick Parks, and it can only mean one thing: lots of snow. Parks was referring not to the Alps but to Kyrgyzstan, the Central Asian… Read More »

Luxury capsule that will fly passengers into space starting from 2025

Space Perspective will take on Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic – Spaceperspective.com Founded in 2019, Space Perspective plans to send tourists to the edge of the Earth’s upper atmosphere in a capsule pushed by a high-altitude balloon the size of the Statue of Liberty. Space Perspective says its views will be comparable to the experiences… Read More »