Travel deals for new years

Running, music and adventure festival Love Trails is a weekend festival of guided trail runs around the Gower peninsula’s woodlands and coastal paths, followed by live music – with Futureheads and Shy FX among the confirmed 2020 acts so far. Other activities include a beer-mile relay, coasteering, rock climbing, surfing, wood-fired hot tubs, workshops on race fuelling and endurance and talks from athletes and therapists • 2-5 July 2020, tickets from £135 Tree-climbing Swing from a harness and hoist yourself high up into a leafy canopy … The Great Big Tree Climbing Company takes the activity to the next level. A one-hour climb includes all the safety gear and is suitable for ages 6+, with events taking place at Hardcastle Crags in West Yorkshire, Kearsney Abbey and Russell Gardens in Kent and other UK sites. • £20 vouchers cover a one-hour tree-climbing experience Trek with llamas … in the Surrey Hills Instead of more socks (even posh, … [Read more...] about Christmas gift guide: 20 great travel experiences

RYANAIR has extended its "Cyber Week" sale by releasing lots more seats at just £9.99 each. But you will have to hurry as they say the sale will finally end tonight. Ryanair had an epic ten-day sale around Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with different offers everyday. While the sale officially ended on December 3, the airline said that it was so successful, they've decided to extend the sale to celebrate. It means you can buy flights from £9.99 across their network in Europe. The travel dates are in January, and you have to book them by midnight tonight.Rulantica is a huge new indoor waterpark the size of FIVE football fields When we checked, there were one-way flights to Barcelona, Valencia, and Milan for £9.99 when travelling from London Stansted - it's also where you'll find the most number of destinations. For the same price, you can also get to Alicante from London Southend, Marseille from Manchester and Faro from Edinburgh. But the sale isn't to all destinations as … [Read more...] about Ryanair has extended its sale with £9.99 flights across Europe – but you have to book by tonight

In December 2012, Matt Healy got in a van with his bandmates and started touring bars, clubs and dives – wherever the 1975 could play. Now, more than 18 months on, he's still touring, capping the summer festival season with yet another UK tour, yet another European tour and yet another US tour, which will take the band through to the end of 2014 with two solid years on the road. The result has been a No 1 album in the UK, a worldwide fanbase and the sense that this band could actually be huge in the US, rather than just pictured on the cover of the NME in front of the Statue of Liberty waving a Union Jack with the claim they will "conquer America". But how did Healy survive life on the road that long? And what did he learn along the way? I can't do planes All our crew go: "You know what? I can't wait for a nice seven-hour sitdown, watch a couple of films." But I have to take as many legal drugs as I can to pass out, because when I get on a plane it's like how an exam used to be … [Read more...] about The 1975’s Matt Healy: how I survived two years on the road

Eleanor Friedberger looks across the pub table to where her elder brother, Matt, is explaining his theory about the music they make together under the name the Fiery Furnaces. "We'd like to play for little kids and in old folks' homes," he says, "and play in nasty bars as well. The music we want to play is more catholic - it's a big enough mess that whether it's the old folk or the kids, they could find something amusing. Hopefully, it is really silly, shiny music. I want it to have a broken toy sound. And also a piano singalong thing. I always like the idea of families entertaining themselves by singing, like every member of a family has a special song they sing when they get drunk enough, a Cole Porter song or whatever. That's fun pop music to me." As she watches her brother, Eleanor, 27, raises her eyes and exhales softly. Not for the last time today, her face arranges itself into an expression pitched between incredulity and weary resignation. In fact, she spends a fair percentage … [Read more...] about ‘He tormented me for years’

An adventurer hoping to set a new endurance record by living alone for 60 days on Rockall, a storm-drenched rock in the Atlantic, was given one piece of advice by the last man who did so. Nick Hancock, a 38-year-old chartered surveyor, was warned: "You need to enjoy your own company." Tom McClean, an SAS veteran who holds the solo record by occupying Rockall for 40 days in 1985, told Hancock that loneliness was the greatest challenge he faced, isolated for two months on a volcanic outcrop 230 miles away from the Western Isles. McClean lived in a hand-built plywood box, sleeping on top of his water containers and food – including a large stash of Christmas puddings – and kept up human contact by reaching trawlers in the area by shortwave radio. Hancock too has made his own vessel. He has nearly finished fitting out and testing a homemade survival pod, built in his garden outside Edinburgh from a modified, bright yellow tubular water tank often used by motorway construction … [Read more...] about Rock on: adventurer to live alone on remote Scottish islet for 60 days