Oct 4, 2021
Take a small chunk of desolate Spanish sierra, add a sprinkler system and what do you get? By 2003, Sotogrande was unarguably the most exclusive, up-market golfing resort in Europe. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas, €12/year...
Oct 4, 2021
It took my grandfather’s ocean liner a month to get to British Ceylon. He was going to see his sister who’d married a tea planter. The year was 1938 and his fellow passengers were prosperous Jewish refugees bound for Sydney and a new, safer life down under. As he...
Oct 4, 2021
This article has been variously published in The New York Post and Abroad Magazine. In January 2006 the article won Turtle the award for Travel Extra Longhaul Journalist of the Year. The award was presented at Holiday World 2006 in Dublin’s RDS by James Malone,...
Oct 4, 2021
Tenerife ain’t the sort of place you’d generally associate with snow. Nor would you particularly expect penguins to hang out there. But much is not as it seems on this, the largest of the seven Canary Islands, pitched out in the Atlantic Ocean, 275km off...
Oct 4, 2021
Our friend Sherry the air hostess secured a hat-trick of tickets from a friend of hers called Mike. He used to work at Continental too but got sacked and now works for the Tampa’s Florida Aquarium. He reckoned doling out 3 x $13.50 free entries might warrant him...
