This inn on the edge of the Ribble Valley has long had a reputation for good food and drink. Now it’s added a glam 24-bedroom lodge across the road When I arrive at Fence Gate Lodge, owner Kevin Berkins is busy with a tape measure on the staircase, checking the installation of a bespoke bannister.…

The Socceroos will play a World Cup qualifying match in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on 10 November 2017. Due to a high risk of violent crime, reconsider your need to travel to the San Pedro Sula suburb of Chamelećon, the nearby towns Choloma and Cofradia and the Department of Gracias a Dios due to the…

The real-life hero of adventure film Jungle helped set up an ecolodge in Bolivia’s Madidi national park – a wild destination for trekkers, and a ray of light for a hunter-gatherer community under threat Branches came crashing down and leaves tumbled around me. Over my head, a howler monkey was putting on a display, standing…

Interested in birdwatching around the UK? As Walthamstow welcomes its new wetlands reserve, we select five other great spots to take flight to for feathery figures Rathlin Island, the northernmost point of Northern Ireland, is home to the country’s biggest seabird colony. The star is the puffin, which arrives in April to breed and heads…

Few locals know about Walthamstow Wetlands in north London, which opens on Friday. But now they, and nature lovers everywhere, can enjoy this amazing bird reserve for free Five more of the UK’s best birdwatching sites We’re strolling along Songbird Walk, beneath a row of waterside poplars very like ones Monet painted in Normandy. The…