A selection of infamous islands from around the world which have notoriety. Some are fictional, some are bigger than fiction, and some just plain insane. 1. ANTHRAX ISLAND (Scotland, UK) Open to the public If there was one island in Scotland I wouldn’t recommend visiting, it would be Gruinard Island off the North West coast. [...]
Download the original attachment 1. Necker islands Sir Richard Branson purchased Necker Island, part of the British Virgin Islands, for a mere £180,000 in the late 70s. It was when his now-thriving mega-company, Virgin, was only six years old. That was the cheap part: for the next three-years, Branson worked on turning the island into [...]
A series of famous big and small screen filming locations along with their Google map locations so you can visit them for yourself. Have you ever watch a film and thought, “WOW! That place looks amazing. I would love to visit it.” Or perhaps you feel like your life won’t be complete until you have [...]
Adventure travel is a foreign concept to all too many foreign travellers. We’ve all been through the same package vacations — hotel to beach, beach to restaurant, and back again — and it’s never as exciting as it could be. It all comes down to the DNA of your holiday. If you’re out for adventure, [...]
Swimming with sharks rates pretty high on almost everyone’s greatest fears list. No matter how much you’ve heard about their lack of hostility, there’s an image built up around sharks that’s hard for us to distance ourselves from. Maybe it’s the result of media attention, and their role in films such as Jaws and Deep [...]