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It’s hard to know if Milan’s fashionistas are bemused more by my driving or by my vehicle as I stall, splutter and crunch the gears while double-parking the tuk-tuk on Via Monte Napoleone, the city’s swankiest street. Both it and I look comically out of place on a thoroughfare dripping …

The European Union has announced new travel document requirements through its European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS).   Beginning in 2024, the European Union will require visitors to get pre-approval via the European Travel Information and Authorisation System, and that goes for summer jet-setters from the US.   The …

Travel firms that continue to fly tourists to Rhodes have been accused of “profiteering” by a senior Conservative, as ministers faced pressure over official travel advice for the island, where 10,000 British tourists have been stranded. As flights rescuing holidaymakers began arriving in the UK on Monday, calls continued for …

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will on Saturday, July 15, travel to Nairobi, Kenya, for the fifth Mid-Year Coordination Meeting (5thMYCM) of the African Union (AU).   The President is expected to join Heads of State and Government, Foreign Ministers of the AU Member-States, and high-level dignitaries at the mid-year meeting …

It was a situation I would normally have relished: stuck in a comfortable mountain hut with a bar, restaurant and sauna. A blizzard raging outside. Warm on the inside. Board games and books available. This was Norway and the four of us knew not to overdo the beer and snacks. …

From the historic chateaux of the Loire valley to the sunshine glamour of the French Riviera, and the quaint villages of Brittany, a holiday to France never fails to delight, offering something there for everyone. But how much thought do you put into getting there? We spend so long planning …

Sweden At noon, steamboat S/S Stockholm pushes away from Boulevard Strandvägen; its elegant art nouveau buildings, piped like cake icing, are the very definition of understated beauty. Our destination is Vaxholm, one of around 30,000 islands, skerries and islets in Stockholm’s archipelago. The city itself spans 14 islands, each with …

[unpaid/sample/affiliate/ad] I’m always keen to travel light – carry on is absolutely the goal as I can’t think of anything worse than waiting for luggage to appear on the carousel of doom. Will it? Won’t it? If it will, how long will it take? If it doesn’t, what do we …

The Canadian government has announced visa-free travel for visitors from 13 different countries across Asia, Africa, Central and South America.    In a statement released,  Sean Fraser, the Canadian Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship said the visa-free travel is extended to Antigua and Barbuda, St Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, …

Mathew Kukah, Catholic Bishop of Sokoto has told youths to always feel the need to return to develop Nigeria after travelling out of the country.   Kukah who made the appeal at an inauguration lecture on Saturday, May 27, noted that Nigerians are not suffering because they are Muslims or …