THEY say you need patience to fish. And it turns out they’re right. Half an hour into my Antiguan deep-sea fishing trip and I’m considering throwing in the towel. We’re about three miles off the coast of Curtain Bluff, on the south coast of the Caribbean island, dragging five baited lines behind us, and nothing has happening. Not even a nibble.

ALTHOUGH the most sparsely populated country in Europe, with roughly 320,000 citizens to its 103,000km2, Iceland is packed with action.

MIRAMAR’S direct translation is ‘good view’ and you most certainly won’t be disappointed in that respect at Hotel Miramar.

LIGHTNING bolts light up the night sky over Chrysochou Bay just before an enormous boom cracks what feels like right above our heads.

I WAS beginning to get the feeling I was the only person around who hadn’t been to Melfort House B&B.

New Zealand offers an insight into the films of the Tolkien classics