When Spring arrives in Seville, temperatures can go from 15 to 30 degrees in 24 hours. Orange trees blossom overnight. And as flowers begin to bloom, the locals do too. At the beginning of April, stunning Spanish Señoritas in traditional, vibrant dresses appear across the city - often alongside dashing...
Semana Santa, Seville (March 2018) As Easter celebrations go, Seville’s Semana Santa (Holy Week) is certainly one of the most spectacular. Every year, for one whole week, the centre of Spain’s fourth largest city comes to an almost complete standstill. As thousands of women, children and men in pointy hats...
Hanging bats, bigger than legs of jamón, chatter above a peep of chickens casually pecking away at a bleached white sandy path, which meanders through Robinsons’s new Club Noonu resort. But there’s no hint of foul play. This Swiss Family Robinson-esque island, one of 1,200 in the Maldives, previously belonged...
Author: Luke O Driscoll “If it was good enough for ol’ Enid Blyton it’ll be good enough for us,” I tell the Iranian girlfriend on the four-hour drive from South London to the Knoll House Hotel, located on the Dorset coast. It was half a century back the author pronounced...
To celebrate International Women's Day, TLE caught up with inspirational writer and adventurer Lois Pryce, who quit her job at the BBC in 2003 to ride her motorbike from Alaska to the tip of South America. Tell us a little bit about you? Lois Pryce - author, travel writer, banjo...
What is Van Life? Or rather, what is #VanLife? Some of the more ardent Instagram users will probably already know all about #VanLife. But for the not-so-social-media-aware, Van Life is a community of people - often slim, attractive, bohemian-looking, millennials - who document their nomadic journeys around the world, in converted...
Feeling inspired by the Winter Olympics? Think you could become the next Billy Morgan? Annndd relax... it's not as easy as it looks. Hitting the slopes for the first time is far from a piece of cake. Unless you are some kind of sporting maverick, you'll probably spend most of...
Eco-conscious Akaryn Hotel Group announces its new hotel, akyra TAS Sukhumvit Bangkok, will be the first single-use plastic-free hotel in Asia. On the back of David Attenborough's Blue Planet II documentary series, which highlighted the extreme level of plastic waste in the ocean, a continuing number of businesses have begun banning single-use...
There's something special about seeing someone in cabin crew uniform. Like when you see a flight attendant striding through the airport and you stop and stare. But how have cabin crew uniforms changed over the years? With London Fashion Week starting tomorrow, TLE decided to take a look at how style...