Aeroflot Last September, a Ural Airlines Airbus A320 plane carrying 165 people was forced to crash-land in a wheat field on a modest farmland next to a forest in Novosibirsk, Siberia. When the hydraulic systems of the plane failed while flying from Omsk to Sochi and the plane started to run out of fuel, the… Read More »
Damüls boasts a guaranteed white winter at an affordable price – Alex Kaiser Claiming to be “the snowiest village in the world” is a tall order. But Damüls, an unknown Austrian gem located deep in the Bregenzerwald mountain range, has something going for it. With a base elevation of 4,700 ft and an average of… Read More »
Outernet claims annual visitors over six million – Frat Çağlayan Yurdakul/Anadolu via Getty What are the most popular tourist attractions in London? Easy. Great museums. They dominated visitor numbers forever. If you check the latest statistics from the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) you’ll see that the Natural History Museum leads the way with… Read More »
A pelican observes activity in the port of Kalloni on the Greek island of Lesbos – Horizon International Images / Alamy The clue was all khakis and camera bags. In mid-April, nine-tenths of the seats on the year’s first direct flight to the Greek island of Lesbos were occupied by wildlife enthusiasts. Here in the… Read More »