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Isolation you’ll love – Fiji’s Barefoot Manta Island has dormitory rooms starting from just £20

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For your next period of isolation, try a cut-price paradise: The private island resort in Fiji that costs from just £20 a night and offers lessons on how to crack coconuts Barefoot Manta Island, which is just under a mile long, caters for a total of around just 80 people The sandy outcrop, accessible only … Read more

Shelly Island, which appeared then vanished off the coast of North Carolina, is BACK

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Island that appeared then vanished in shark-infested waters off the coast of North Carolina is BACK – to the delight of locals Shelly Island was born in January 2017 off the tip of Cape Point in Buxton It disappeared in early 2018  after being battered by a series of storms Photographs of a sandbar emerging in … Read more

Isolation you’ll love – Fiji’s Barefoot Manta Island has dormitory rooms starting from just £20

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For your next period of isolation, try a cut-price paradise: The private island resort in Fiji that costs from just £20 a night and offers lessons on how to crack coconuts Barefoot Manta Island, which is just under a mile long, has dormitory rooms start from just F$60 (£20)  The sandy outcrop, accessible only by … Read more

The charm of Belgium’s gentle gem: How to spend 48 hours in Ghent

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Talk to any shopkeepers in this Belgian city and they’ll tell you they’re excited.  Excited because Ghent, a sleepy university city just 30 minutes from Brussels, is seeing a new wave of visitors charmed by its beguiling cobbled streets, Gothic architecture and laid-back atmosphere. Once the seat of the Counts of Flanders, whose castle has … Read more

The charm of Belgium’s gentle gem: How to spend 48 hours in Ghent

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Talk to any shopkeepers in this Belgian city and they’ll tell you they’re excited.  Excited because Ghent, a sleepy university city just 30 minutes from Brussels, is seeing a new wave of visitors charmed by its beguiling cobbled streets, Gothic architecture and laid-back atmosphere. Once the seat of the Counts of Flanders, whose castle has … Read more

Tik Tok video of Jeroen Gortworst’s home-made business-class cabin goes viral

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Traveller recreates a business-class plane cabin in a hilarious video – with the help of a tablet computer and a washing machine The clip was created by ‘passenger’ Jeroen Gortworst, from Rotterdam He uploaded it to Tik Tok, where it has been viewed millions of times   Last month a couple recreated a cruise holiday in … Read more

The clump of 33 trees on Adak Island in Alaska that forms ‘America’s smallest national forest’

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Pictured: The clump of 33 trees in Alaska that forms ‘America’s smallest national forest’ The forest is located on Adak Island, part of the volcanic Aleutian archipelago The first trees on the spot were planted to cheer up Second World War troops  Around 6,000 troops were stationed on the island to guard against the Japanese  By … Read more

Exclusive for MoS readers: Explore the Cotswolds with TV’s Adam Henson

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Exclusive for Mail on Sunday readers: Explore the Cotswolds with TV’s Adam Henson – have lunch with the farmer star of the BBC’s Countryfile and see six fantastic gardens By Mail on Sunday Reporter Published: 22:01 BST, 11 April 2020 | Updated: 10:51 BST, 13 April 2020 There are few places more quintessentially English than … Read more

Mail on Sunday writers reveal the hotels they’re dreaming of visiting after the coronavirus crisis

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Have you thought about where you’ll be when the lockdown restrictions are lifted?  Here our travel writers reveal the places they are longing to visit around the UK as soon as it’s safe to do so. The Victorian grandeur of Gladstone’s Library in Flintshire, the decadence of The Methuen Arms in Wiltshire, the luxuriousness of … Read more