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Yahoo
21 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Safari pod with sunken hot tub set for auction with guide price of £45,000
A safari-style glamping pod with a sunken hot tub is being offered for sale at an auction guide price of £45,000 near Tenby. Located at Redberth Gardens, Pembrokeshire, the Robin Hood Safari Unit is said to be one of the biggest on the holiday site. According to the listing, the pod can accommodate up to six people and is described as "the ultimate in glamping pods". Further details are available at The pod includes one double bedroom, one twin bedroom, and a cabin bed. A private bathroom features a freestanding egg-shaped bath and a separate shower unit. The kitchen is fitted with a washer dryer, dishwasher, oven, and hob. A log burner is provided for colder days, and there are smart TVs in three rooms. An enclosed outdoor area contains furniture, a projector screen, a sunken hot tub set into the decking, a BBQ, a firepit area, and a copper shower. The hot tub (Image: Paul Fosh Auctions) All internal and external furniture and fittings are included in the sale, as well as the hot tub. The pod is being sold with ongoing management and onward bookings. The service charge is listed as £261.00 per month. The rental figure for 2024 was £70,042.95. The listing claims the location draws visitors from a wide area to enjoy "instagramable splendour" and says guests "just love glamping in the knowledge that they have everything that they would need". The pod is one of around eighty lots being sold online, with the auction starting at 12 noon on Tuesday, July 29 and ending from 5pm on Thursday, July 31.
BBC News
5 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Tributes to former Baildon teacher killed by elephant
A school has paid tribute to one of its former teachers who died after being attacked by an elephant during a walking safari in Easton, also known as Janice, 68, taught chemistry at Titus Salt School in Baildon, Bradford, from September 1983 until her retirement in August Easton, along with a 67-year-old female tourist from New Zealand, was trampled to death by the nursing elephant on 3 July, after efforts by tour guides to stop it by firing shots failed. Phil Temple, head teacher at Titus Salt, described Ms Easton as an "exemplary professional" who he said was an "intrepid traveller, keen photographer and much-loved friend". Mr Temple said Ms Easton's impact on "generations of pupils" in the local community had been "profound".He said her "skill, tenacity and determination to ensure all young people had the opportunity to succeed" had been admired by "countless colleagues".He added: "Janice will be fondly remembered by all in the Titus Salt School and wider communities."Local police chief in Zambia, Robertson Mweemba, said the two women had been part of a guided safari group who were walking in the park when the elephant charged towards them at high speed."They were moving to other camps when the elephant charged from behind. "We are really sorry that we have lost our visitors," Mr Mweemba said. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Ex-NFL star Jay Cutler slammed for 'blood-soaked' hunting trip to Africa
Former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler has been slammed by PETA in response to his hunting trip in South Africa. The ex-Bears passer has been proudly sharing updates from his trip to social media, as he's posed with dead animals such as a Sable Antelope. And the animal rights organization PETA took Cutler to task in a recent post as they branded Cutler a 'coward.' 'Former NFL quarterback, now full-time coward, Jay Cutler, traded his jersey for a rifle and went on a blood-soaked ego trip to Africa,' the organization wrote on Instagram. 'These animals had families, lives, and a right to live freely until Cutler decided they'd look better as trophies. This isn't a 'sport,' this is shameful.' In the comments of another post, in which Cutler posed with a dead animal in the wilderness, PETA chastised Cutler once again. View this post on Instagram A post shared by PETA (@peta) 'How grotesquely cruel and weak,' they wrote. 'If you're desperate to feel powerful again, lift some weights. Don't terrorize and murder animals peacefully living in their own homes.' PETA were not the only ones outraged at Cutler's hunting, as several fans criticized his post posing with a Sable Antelope. 'Wow, Jay. You killed a wild animal in a place it's rarely hunted and it had zero idea you were a threat. Suppeeerrrr impressive buddy,' one wrote. 'I went to Africa on a safari and saw the most incredible wildlife and never once thought about murdering them,' said a third. 'What a cruel 'hobby' Jay. Shame on you for killing this beautiful animal. It breaks my heart,' wrote a fourth.' Cutler was best known for his time in Chicago, where he holds the franchise record for touchdowns and passing yards. In eight seasons there, he accrued a 51-51 record and made the NFC Championship Game in the 2010 season. He began his NFL career with the Denver Broncos after being drafted eleventh overall by the team and played in the Mile High City for three seasons before being traded to the Bears. The ex-Vanderbilt star also played one season with the Miami Dolphins in 2017 before retiring from the sport.
Forbes
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Pack Like—Actor And Entrepreneur Neil Patrick Harris
Pack Like is a column in which Forbes Vetted asks some of the most well-traveled personalities about the essential items they reach for when they're on the go. Next time you're headed on an adventure, look no further for ideas and inspiration. When actor and jack of all trades Neil Patrick Harris isn't on the screen or stage, you can often find him at the airport jetting off on his next adventure. In the last year alone, Harris has traveled to London, Fiji, Croatia, Greece, Scotland, and most recently, Tanzania and Kenya, for his first safari, alongside husband, David Burtka, and children Harper and Gideon. 'It was a massive bucket list item that did not disappoint,' says Harris, calling the family trip to Africa life-altering, world-affirming and all-around fantastic. 'I'm a big proponent of immersive experiences and placing yourself in new and unfamiliar environments. It's the best way to learn and grow, plus create searing memories that you'll remember forever.' Growing up, Harris vacationed often with his family, mostly to Disneyland, which, in part, laid the groundwork for his own whimsical spirit and sense of creativity. 'It may sound corporate and inauthentic, but I found Walt Disney's attention to detail amazing. I was fully immersed in his world and I hope to be able to provide that for others in my life.' This summer, Harris will attempt to do just that—albeit on a slightly smaller scale—hosting a Murder Mystery Weekend at Palm Island Resort & Spa in the Florida Keys. The three-day event, which is a cardholder-only Capital One Dining Experience, will start July 22 and combine a Harris-led live action murder mystery performance with world-class dining and accommodations. 'It should be terribly exciting; three days and two nights on a remote island, filled with activities and puzzles to solve,' he says. 'We've created an entire storyline, so the attending guests will have to acquaint themselves with performers, the environment and each other. Will there be murder? Perhaps. Will there be intrigue? Absolutely. It's looking to be very White Lotus .' Though Harris has been planning the getaway for months, packing for the trip will be a breeze. For long weekends away, he relies on a few sleek-yet-steady travel accessories, like an expandable carry-on and multi-purpose backpack that help him move through the world with ease. 'I look for bags with lots of compartments, so you know where everything goes—it makes the locating and the repacking easier too,' he says. While on the plane, he also always brings a few essentials to make himself more comfortable like noise-canceling headphones and a hydrating face oil, plus practical wellness items like Afrin and Neosporin. He adds, 'Two squirts of Afrin opens up your sinuses, which helps with cabin pressure, and rubbing a bit of Neosporin inside each nostril keeps illness and germs from settling in your head.' While Harris, who has four dogs, won't be traveling with any pets this time around, in his spare time he has also been thinking around new ways to make the experience more seamless for furry friends, too. The actor recently took to TikTok Shop to exclusively launch Tayl, a new company that will design thoughtful and stylish pet products to help pups live their best lives. 'We love our dogs unconditionally. We also are treating them as proper members of our family, and as such, feel like they deserve an element of quality when it sometimes doesn't exist,' says Harris. 'Tayl will create elevated pet products that both dogs and owners will be proud to wear or use. There's a lot coming up, so stay tuned.' Below, shop all of Harris' top travel picks, including his favorite portable charger, travel sneakers and more. Neil Patrick Harris' Travel Essentials An Expandable Carry-On For Under $60 'This is my go-to carry-on,' says Harris, who often uses the hardside roller bag for long weekends away. 'It's $54, durable, expandable by 25%, comes in various colors and did I mention it's $54?' Amazon Basics 21-Inch Hardside Carry-On Luggage $54 A Multi-Purpose Pack With Tons Of Pockets 'The Nomatic Travel Pack has a brilliant design, allows you to open it from any position and access whatever you need and has more spaces, pockets and pouches that you'd ever know what to do with. It's fantastic.' Nomatic Travel Pack $350 Noise-Canceling Earbuds For The Plane 'The AirPod Pros fit perfectly in my ears, they cancel out any unwanted noise and they've got a low profile. This may not be a hot take, per se, but come on…Apple for the win.' Apple AirPods Pro 2 $19 A Small Speaker That Packs Big Sound 'I was just in Scotland, filming a movie called Sunny Dancer [in theaters next year]. Bella Ramsey is the lead, and they had this amazing speaker on set—it provides a remarkable amount of sound in a truly tiny package. Almost like a magic trick. I have no idea how it accomplishes what it does.' JBL Go 4 Portable Speaker $50 An In-Flight Cocktail To Take The Edge Off 'If it's before noon, I'm partial to a bloody Mary on a plane. It makes me feel like I'm on vacation, taking the edge off and somehow being healthy. I realize I'm not, but the savory and spicy flavors try to convince me otherwise. If it's after lunch, I'm all about a gin and tonic. Clean, crisp and makes bingeing downloaded content that much more enjoyable,' says Harris, who is also releasing a paired cocktails and mocktails book, Both Sides Of The Glass , with Burtka in September. Filthy Bloody Mary Kit $40 AND UP An On-The-Go Escape Room Game 'I love escape rooms, and tabletop versions can be equally exciting. Curious Correspondence provides an escape room experience contained within specially crafted envelopes. They are wildly inventive and satisfying—you won't believe what they can do with paper products!—and I always have at least two in my backpack for an emergency good time.' Curious Correspondence Escape Games $140 Shop At Mysterious Package A Face Oil That Works Wonders 'My great friend and groomer, Amy Komorowski, created this nourishing face oil that can be applied whenever you need a dermal assist. It's remarkable—one dropper full leaves your face refined, plump and hydrated. It's kind of my secret sauce.' Circa 1970 Face Oil $110 A Light, Yet Hydrating Conditioner 'Amy also got me hooked on this leave-in conditioner that is perfect for travel. After a long flight, just add a dollop of this crème and your locks look nourished and soft, without being weighed down.' Hårklinikken Hair Hydrating Crème $56 Cool Sneakers That'll Keep You Comfy 'I always wear a grey henley shirt when I fly (it's kinda dressy, kinda sexy and kinda pajamas), and I tend to pair it with classic grey Sambas. They're crazy comfortable, and easy to slip on and off if a TSA agent barks at me to remove my kicks.' Adidas Men's Samba OG Shoes $100 $100 At Dick's Sporting Goods A Travel Charger That Won't Let You Down 'When you're traveling, you can never be sure which cord will work with which plane. After I found this Anker charger, I needn't worry. It allows for three cables of different persuasions. I also love it at a hotel—plug this into the outlet next to the bed, and you can charge all of your devices at once.' Anker USB-C And USB-A Charger $40 A Face Mask To Fly Under The Radar 'This mask protects me from potential ails, and allows me to go incognito,' says Harris, who calls a disposable mask the number one travel item he can't live without. Keangs KN95 Black Face Masks $30
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Travel + Leisure
7 days ago
- Travel + Leisure
There's a New, Unexpected Reason to Visit One of the World's Ultimate Safari Destinations
Our guide, Dux Mareja, threw out his left arm like a shield. 'Step around,' he warned, ushering my family down the main pathway of andBeyond Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge (from $1,850 per person, all-inclusive), a 12-suite property on the outskirts of Botswana's Moremi Game Reserve. Thirty seconds before, we had been gorging on pastries at base camp: a structure resembling a pangolin, with wood shingles for a coat of armor. 'What is it?' I asked, moving swiftly in a single file with Rob, my husband, and our nine-year-old son, Bobby. We peered into the dense thicket, which camouflaged plenty of creatures: some harmless, others not. 'A Mozambique spitting cobra,' he replied, boosting Bobby up into our Land Cruiser. 'One of the deadliest snakes in the world.' We never did get a good look at the cobra. But over two adrenaline-filled days, we did happen upon two leopards mating in a tree; a playful pack of hyena cubs; and a lion on the prowl, stalking a distant male competitor. He eventually sought shade, lying down with a dramatic flop. We followed suit back at the lodge in our suite, propped up on stilts and modeled after the nest of an African golden weaver. It's easy to be lulled into a false sense of security on safari: even in the Okavango Delta, one of Africa's most untamed spaces. Covering 6,000 square miles—about half the size of Belgium—this UNESCO World Heritage Site is like a sponge, always ready to receive. Fed from both seasonal rainfall and water running down from the Angolan highlands via the Okavango River, the Delta and its series of floodplains, swamps, and islands are unbelievably rich in game, with 124 mammals and 464 species of bird on the spotter's checklist. Building, supplying, and staffing camps here has never been easy, something I noticed on my first visit over a decade ago. Function usually trumped form, in the name of sparsely furnished, tented accommodations. But change is afoot, in part due to the stylish, year-old Atzaro Okavango (from $1,850 per person, all-inclusive), a partnership between African Bush Camps and the co-owners of a luxe Spanish hotel company. Singita Elela, debuting in 2026, will further the area's high-design narrative by embracing an organic, airy aesthetic. The shift began with the 2014 rebuild of Sandibe, a crown jewel for luxury hospitality company andBeyond, which operates five properties in the country. 'When we designed Sandibe it was with a contextual background of what we thought to be pretty dull, cookie-cutter, and stagnant 1970s-style lodge design in Botswana,' said Joss Kent, the CEO of andBeyond, noting that all concrete and bricks were removed—250 trucks worth—to make way for more eco-friendly timber. A hybrid solar power plant now supplies 70 percent of Sandibe's energy, which was a first for the region. Sandibe's architectural bona fides aren't immediately apparent: a series of steps lead to a rather demure entrance, shaped like an upside-down U. But once through, the sense of grandeur grips you: huge beams, made of pine sourced from South Africa, implant themselves like ribs in the spacious deck. At the top level is a chic bar, which then gives way to an elevated walkway (the pangolin's tail!), where we dined under the stars of the Southern Hemisphere. 'Botswana is one of the rare places on earth that still belongs to its wildlife,' explained Mark Lakin, the founder of the Legacy Untold and an Africa specialist on the Travel + Leisure advisory board. Lakin, who coordinated our trip, insisted we try a doors-off helicopter ride for perspective (and the incredible photos). He was right: from up high, the lush landscape appeared like uneven moss, punctuated by circles of purple-black water, lines of trees, and dots of animals. Botswana holds Africa's largest elephant population, some 132,000. The optimist in me believed I could see all 132,000 from where we sat by the campfire later that day: herds were everywhere, like toys in a diorama. Dux would sometimes point out a solitary bull, tackling all that land with no one to talk to. But he was most excited by a sitatunga, an elusive species of water antelope: it stood half-submerged in a lagoon, like a lakegoer keen to keep their hair dry. Water influences everything here. Two lodges could be separated by a mere 30 miles, as the crow flies–yet entirely inaccessible to even the sturdiest SUV. And so, no sooner after touching down from one helicopter adventure, we were off on another to the famed Wilderness Mombo Camp (from $4,895 per person, all-inclusive), officially part of the Moremi. Opened in 1991, Mombo quickly earned a reputation for being the ne plus ultra of Botswana lodges due to its prime location on Chief's Island: game central. Over sundowners by the campfire, as darkness enveloped the floodplain before us, we could trace the outlines of several elephants, ambling on by. Black-and-white photos of Mombo's most famous animals, including Mmamoriri, a maned lioness, hung in the communal living and dining area, with its immaculate walk-in wine cellar and luxurious little pizza kitchen. Mombo and neighboring Wilderness camp Little Mombo were rebuilt from the ground-up in 2018, a reimagining by South Africa's Nicholas Plewman Architects (the firm also partly responsible for Sandibe) and U.K. design firm Artichoke Interior Design. Each tent is a go-big-or-go-home 2,700-square-feet, with an outdoor pool and an ample dressing room, the irony being that there is rarely the occasion to dress up. The decor, at times, leans vintage (note the deep copper tub), with the requisite modern touches of a luxury hotel. Another nod to the times? A new 8,826-square foot 'Sanctuary,' with meditation cocoons, two treatment rooms, an ice bath, a sauna, a gym, and a remedy bar spotlighting medicinal herbs, debuts at year's end. Wellness is descending upon the Botswanan bush–not long after world-class art. Our final stop was nearby Xigera (from $4,500 per person, all-inclusive), designed by architect Anton de Kock and landscape architect Philip Fourie to be a living museum for African creators, established and emerging. Priceless art sits side by side with Pel's fishing owls, hovering in trees, and the occasional leopard, strolling through camp. Once part of Wilderness Safaris, Xigera reopened in 2021 under the stewardship of the Tollman family, owners of Red Carnation Hotels. In partnership with the Cape Town-based art gallery Southern Guild, the family tapped 80 of the continent's artisans to bring color and craft to the stark wilderness. 'Nothing is generic; everything is intentional,' Toni Tollman, whose family is from South Africa, told me of the private collection, and her desire to create a place where 'African design would be celebrated as an expression of identity, place, and purpose.' Some of the Tollmans' ambitions are less evident to the guest eye, but still impactful: Xigera is also almost fully solar-powered and helping Habu, a nearby village, set up its own composting program. I was constantly scanning our surroundings–for the wildlife, but for artistic treasures that invited questions. In the main lounge, Bobby gravitated toward painted seats clustered around a chess table: the four chairs were carved by Andile Dyalvane, an Eastern Cape artist, the chess set was a beautiful metal board from Philippe Bouquet. Nearby, I discovered wood-panel paintings by the late Cecil Skotnes: a champion of diversity in apartheid South Africa. In the outdoor boma, where we feasted on chef Ziyaad Brown's grilled Namibian lobster, my eye kept returning to the firepit sculpture: a series of eight-foot sculptural spears by blacksmith Conrad Hicks. In our suite, fantastical porcelain lamps from Ardmore satisfied the maximalist in me; a black, geometric ceramic side table by artist Chuma Maweni became perches for our morning coffee. One evening, the Xigera team surprised us with biltong, popcorn, and sundowners at the Baobab Treehouse suite, a short drive from camp. The remarkable structure is inspired by a painting from landscape artist Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef; bronze-colored branches reach for the sky, surrounding a rooftop bed open to the elements (a screened-in bedroom and bathroom for the skittish is just below). Scanning the delta, wine glass in hand, I couldn't help but wonder if it was all a fantastical, architectural folly. The next day, we happened upon a pride of lions, comfortably ensconced around the tree house base: did they know about all those little luxuries, just within reach? Probably not. But they were content to lounge here for the day, an extension of the suite's magnificent design.
