A team of Destinology travel advisors have this month returned from an educational visit to Thailand, and unsurprisingly were full of praise for the places and hotels they visited.

The trip began as a mini bus came to collect our team and take them down to Birmingham for an Emirates flight on 10 June. Their flight went via Dubai onto Bangkok which was to be home for two nights whilst they visited hotels in Cha Am and Hua Hin. More...

Emperor Penguin with Navigation issues?
There may be umpteen theories as to why a young Antarctic Emperor penguin has mistakenly (or so we are led to believe) travelled too far north ending up stranded on one of New Zealand’s numerous beaches.
Conservationists reckon the 80cm high penguin is just 10 months old so the 2000-mile journey is quite an achievement for a ‘toddler’
Emperor Penguins spend their entire lives in Antarctica and almost never land anywhere near people in fact it is 44 years since a wild Emperor penguin was last spotted in New Zealand.More...

When we look to travel overseas are we aware that we are staying in a once remote, detached part of Britain? Some items in the Athletics world news made me think about this recently; not earth shattering items but interesting nontheless.

Familiar British Overseas Territories as they have been known since 1981, include Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands which, for political reasons we would probably cite as prime examples. More...