Deborah O’Donoghue is a reporter at Travel Tomorrow. This British-Irish writer lived in the UK and France before moving to Belgium. She has travelled all over the world and worked in car body repairs, in the best fish ‘n’ chip shop in Brighton, and been a gopher in a comedy club, as well as a teacher. She’s a past winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Prize. Her début novel, Sea of Bones, was published by the UK's Legend Press in 2019 and Droemer Knaur Germany in 2021.
Climate change is impacting life in many ways, including some of the least expected. In Sweden, higher-than-normal temperatures have meant that traditional winter pastimes such as […]
This week, I came across two apparently unrelated opinion pieces. They reminded me of doubts being expressed in the early days of the Responsible Tourism movement. […]
Many people have multiple phone numbers, mostly for work purposes. And while years ago, we were juggling with several phones in order to make this possible, […]
Trinidad and Tobago, and more specifically Tobago, is home to the third-largest nesting population of leatherback turles in the world. These turtles are the most numerous […]
Worsening violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has led to warnings against all travel there from Belgium’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as […]
After decades of debate and legal challenges, the UK government has once again thrown its weight behind the expansion of Heathrow Airport, approving plans for a […]
In exciting news for philatelists, epistolists and aviation fans, Brussels Airlines and the Belgian postal service, bpost, are celebrating 100 years of flights between Belgium and […]
Would-be space tourists may be put off their galactic dreams by new research that shows time spent in space can cause eye damage. Problems with astronauts’ […]
Coming back into office seemingly with a vengeance, freshly inaugurated for his second term, President Donald Trump has wasted no time adopting a series of controversial […]
The World Monuments Fund (WMF), an international, non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation of historic architecture and cultural heritage sites around the world, updated its list […]
They’re roomy, light and surprisingly cheap compared to most IT-bags. Yes, we’re talking about the tote bag, which is on track to become this year’s most […]