Most tourists to Kenya skip Nairobi, but there is an intoxicating music scene that distills the best that east Africa has to offer “Anyone here who’s been mugged recently?” calls Blinky from the stage, looking cool in his tweed flat cap. Whoooh, the crowd roars, lapping up Nairobi’s next… Read More

A ferry ride from party island Ibiza lies Formentera, where Unesco status and a beachfront building ban have forced developers to be creative – its first boutique hotel is a great example Is this the real life? Or is it just fantasy? Right now it’s hard to say. It… Read More

The price of holiday essentials in Portugal has fallen 42% in a year, making it the best-value destination, a survey shows Anyone thinking of a last-minute budget holiday in the sun should head to Portugal, according to a survey which claims prices there have fallen by more than 40%… Read More

It may not have Venice quaking just yet, but this two-week festival on the Kent coast is shoring up a rich tableau of new art Like most coastal towns in Britain, there is a faint waft of deep-fried fish that dances on your nostrils as you walk around it.… Read More

Luke Bainbridge goes back to old skool with a hip-hop tour of the Bronx in the company of 70s pioneer Grandmaster Caz “Welcome to the one and only hip-hop tour on the planet … my name is Grandmaster Caz and I’m one of the cats that started hip-hop.” We’re… Read More

Jamie-James Medina gets an insider’s view of the Bronx from a hip-hop legend
Original Source Video: Grandmaster Caz’s hip-hop tour of New York

By Molly Fergus LG Deputy Editor, Travel News Missed the big travel stories of the week? And the weird, wacky and insignificant ones? We’ve got your roundup right here…. WiFi Hits the Rails Big news on the WiFi front this week: Starbucks, New York’s Metro North train system, and… Read More

If cabin crew vote for further industrial action, then a new wave of strikes is possible from the first week of August onward British Airways is facing further industrial unrest by cabin crew after the latest attempt to forge peace with the Unite trade union failed. The Acas conciliation… Read More

Money used for ad campaign to promote tourism with slogan ‘This isn’t the first time New Orleans has survived the British’ The B in BP may no longer mean British, but tell that to New Orleans. The city is using a $5m cheque from the company to launch what… Read More

Reports that president will choose Crete for a break, although the US embassy says such a trip would be ‘surprising’ No one knows whether he will stay on a yacht or in a hotel, or even step ashore. Indeed, if truth be told, no one can say whether he… Read More