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Holidays: This is the one thing you should ALWAYS pack in your suitcase

10/20/2018, 11:06:36 AM
HOLIDAYS are exciting occasions but it’s vital you put careful thought into packing your suitcase. This is the one thing you should always make sure you put in your bag when travelling. ✔ Holidays: Take a portable battery pack to ensure you’re charged throughout your trip (Image: Getty Images) Travelodge advises thinking ahead and suggest packing a treat or a home comfort for that ‘ahhh’ moment ✔ For regular travellers, consider keeping a separate toiletry kit for trips away and regularly replenish it


Does wine taste different on a plane – and which is the best and worst to order?

10/20/2018, 9:33:23 AM
In-flight wine is a serious business – but it wasn’t always thus. ✔ Back in the Seventies, winemakers would tell you that bad vintages were sent to the colonies, or to airlines, says Andy Sparrow, in charge of travel sales at one of Europe’s biggest wine suppliers, Bibendum, and a buyer for British Airways ✔ These days, however, any carrier worth its salt has a team of experts tasked with finding the very best bottles to uncork at 35,000 feet, while wineries will leap at the chance to have their finest products served in lounges and cabins


From horses to kittens, 18 beaches where you can have an unbelievable animal encounter

10/20/2018, 9:33:20 AM
From horses to kittens, 18 beaches where you can have an unbelievable animal encounter ✔ What could be better than sunbathing, building sandcastles, eating an ice cream AND watching beautiful animals frolic in the shallows ✔ But, best of all, it is overflowing with wildlife at every turn ✔ Boat trips to see the cute little porkers are offered, but this brings problems


The REAL reason Elton John quit touring revealed... but London residency is on the cards

10/20/2018, 8:10:38 AM
ELTON John announced his epic Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour earlier this year - insisting it’s the last time fans will ever see him in the road. ✔ ON THE ROAD: Elton John is currently in the middle of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour (Pic: GETTY) FAMILY UNIT: Elton John poses with David Furnish and their two children (Pic: GETTY) OPENING UP: David Furnish hinted Elton would consider a London residency after his tour (Pic: GETTY) Elton really finds touring hard on him..


Felixstowe: the faded Suffolk seaside town making a quiet comeback

10/20/2018, 8:52:43 AM
Saffron Walden, as we observed a few weeks ago, sounds like a plucky Victorian heroine who virtuously outgrows her life in a pilchard factory. ✔ Saffron Walden, as we observed a few weeks ago, sounds like a plucky Victorian heroine who virtuously outgrows her life in a pilchard factory ✔ Perhaps Felix Stowe might be a transatlantic cousin dreamed up by Mark Twain ✔ In the years following its peak resort-dom, a period in which its gentle namesake would have died painlessly while surrounded by his doting..


11 of Our Best Weekend Reads

10/20/2018, 10:03:53 AM
The man behind the news: Jamal Khashoggi. Let Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish cheer you up. Read some tiny love stories. Spend 24 hours in America. And more. ✔ National ___ Tiffany Haddish: ‘My career is a delicious roasted chicken’ Trust us it makes sense when you hear how doggedly she pursued success ✔ Opinion: What if the Republicans Win Everything Again ✔ Opinion: A Whole Lot of Babbling Going On The Case of Jane Doe Ponytail


Something is desperately wrong when America is accused of covering up the killing of a dissident

10/20/2018, 11:31:06 AM
Now Trump almost seems to consider violence toward a member of the media by an authoritarian regime something he can get behind. ✔ The Turks also claim to have recordings documenting the torturous severing of Khashoggi’s fingers, as well as his dismemberment and beheading ✔ Kara-Murza, usually voluble, refused to answer ✔ You have so many Russians meddling in your politics already, he said by way of conclusion


‘The streets are haunted’ – Colm Tóibín explores literary Dublin

10/20/2018, 10:15:06 AM
The house where Oscar Wilde grew up and where James Joyce was let down, the library where WB Yeats studied … the Irish capital is full with the ghosts of great writers ✔ James Joyce saw the city as a centre of paralysis, and his younger brother Stanislaus, who left Dublin in 1905 and did not return wrote: In Ireland, a country which has seen revolutions in every generation, there is properly speaking no national tradition


The Sound of ‘Housewives’ Everywhere

10/20/2018, 10:03:58 AM
Behind the scenes with the men who make America’s favorite “ladies” into drama queens. ✔ It was true; the music sounded more familiar more Bravo-like at a muted level ✔ Styled by Carlos Nazario Solange, the Polymathic Cultural Force Photograph by Mickalene Thomas ✔ Opinion: A Whole Lot of Babbling Going On The Case of Jane Doe Ponytail


12 Authors Write About the Libraries They Love

10/20/2018, 10:03:55 AM
The message here: A library is much more than its books. ✔ It attracts travelers, nomads, refugees from both sides of the tracks ✔ But at bedtime that evening I reminded my daughter, Just think, our library holds part of the moon ✔ Wonder moved through her face; she nodded gravely ✔ Opinion: A Whole Lot of Babbling Going On The Case of Jane Doe Ponytail


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