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All eyes are on the Balearic Islands this summer for a solar event that only happens once every 400 years! The 2026 solar eclipse in Mallorca that will overshadow any other destination for your 2026 travel plans and now is the perfect time to start planning your visit to witness it with your own eyes. Luxury travellers are already making plans to witness the 2026 Mallorca total solar eclipse. Travel demand is already surging for luxury villas in Mallorca, offering an exclusive viewing opportunity of this otherworldly event that will only occur once in a lifetime. Discover why this rare celestial event is one you don’t want to miss and which parts of the island offer the best view of all: 100% totality! A rare solar eclipse crosses Mallorca’s path Mark your calendar for August 12 for Mallorca’s Eclipse Day! It’s astrotourism meets luxury travel, attracting travellers seeking celestial events like solar eclipses. Condé Nast Traveller estimates hundreds of thousands of visitors to flock to the island of Mallorca for the solar eclipse, and Spain is already gearing up for the influx. Check out the official 2026 eclipse path via this map from the National Solar Observatory (NSO). According to

For decades, all-inclusive safaris have followed the same schedule. Pre-dawn wake-up calls. Game drives that leave on time whether you’re ready or not. Structured mealtimes. Planned downtime. Communal meals. It’s a structure most accept as part of the deal. But what if that’s not the way a safari is meant to be enjoyed? As a born and bred South African, the safari holiday isn’t once-in-a-lifetime for me. It’s something of a routine. An annual, or even more frequent, event. And to be honest I’d never really questioned its structure. But during a recent stay at an ultra-luxury private villa in South Africa’s Madikwe Game Reserve, I experienced something that felt fundamentally different from any safari I’d done before. It wasn’t just more exclusive or more indulgent, it was freer. Unscripted. Almost deliberately anti-safari in the way it dismantled everything I’d come to expect. A safari without a schedule Sure, at some of South Africa’s biggest game reserves, you can self-drive, self-cater and set your own safari schedule. But if you’re after the trimmings that the quintessential all-inclusive safari offers then you’re pretty much bound by a daily schedule that isn’t your own. In the past it was ideal, expected even,

The Fish Hotel is an inviting take on Scandi-cool-comfort and contemporary country living.  Delivering hygge for the Cotswolds, The Fish is an innovative country retreat, a rural playground of some 500 acres on the Gloucestershire and Worcestershire borders. Home to buzzards, deer and foxes, as well as weary urbanites and salivating foodies.  More rural community than hotel, The Fish’s collection of shepherds’ huts and treehouses is scattered amongst hillside banks of snowdrops and swathes of daffodils. Ponds glint in the spring sunshine, probably created centuries ago by monks to secure a regular supply of fish.  Blending adventure retreat, relaxed rural hideaway and gourmet experience, The Fish features Martin Burge’s restaurant, Hook. His fishy menus bring Cornwall to the Cotswolds.  The welcome The winding road through the estate’s acres, through beech and oaks, is long. Signs encourage doubting drivers, “You’re nearly there”, “Close” until they finally arrive at the timbered Lodge.  Check-in is relaxed and informal. The receptionist stands and chats with us as she enters a few last details on her lap top. No desks, no barriers. Then she guides us to our Shepherd’s Hut.  The Hideaway Hut A signpost to Titania, Fairy, Bottom, Snout et al signals that these Hideaway

The car rental counter at Keflavík Airport is always busy. Visitors collect their keys, load up on insurance options they half-understand, and drive into a landscape that looks, from the terminal window, like it should be easy. Wide roads, no traffic, open sky. Forty minutes later, somewhere on a coastal highway, the wind picks up. Not a gentle breeze — a sideways force that pushes the car half a lane over. The weather app still says partly cloudy. The sky disagrees. And somewhere ahead, a single-lane bridge appears with no warning, and another car is already on it. This is Iceland. It is absolutely safe to drive — but it is nothing like driving anywhere else you have been. The honest answer: Yes, but… Let’s get this out of the way: Iceland is not a dangerous country to drive in. The roads are well-maintained, the infrastructure is modern, crime is virtually nonexistent, and Icelanders are calm, courteous drivers. If you have experience driving in varied conditions and you do your homework, self-driving is perfectly viable. But Iceland’s challenges have nothing to do with the roads and everything to do with what happens above and around them. The weather is the