Travel
Andrew Forbes
Duba plains in Botswana.SUR It's possible to add on a safari too; taking the train from Cape Town up north or a flight to Nelspruit airport, well-placed for the private game lodges in and around the Krugar National Park. It'll be the rainy season that
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Jennie Rhodes
...newfound friend, Marián, who is originally from Vélez-Málaga, "I need to get off at that stop too so you can come with me to the train station when we get off the plane," she proffered in Spanish. Result. While I love a bit of solo travel, and managed to ... (traditional Polish dumplings) before changing from my thus far favoured mode of transport and taking the train to my final destination, Gdansk. Having not found an adequate app to pre-book my seat (horrors!), I found myself having to buy, from the only person ... euros), just for the very polite gentleman who helped with my luggage once in my compartment as well as the free cup of tea and chocolate muffin. My final land-based journey was by taxi, which I hailed outside Gdansk train station. It was too early for
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Airtificial's factory, in Puerto de Santa María, Cadiz, was this week the scene of the global unveiling of a prototype hyperloop train planned to travel at 1,200 km/h, almost the speed of sound. The Andalusian company has built the 30-metre-long
Opinion
Rachel Haynes
I haven't worked out the exact figure but I would estimate that nine out of ten British CVs that include interests at the end, give travel as one of them. Whether by travel people refer to a backpacking trip around the world or a train ride to
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IGNACIO LILLO
Residents of Fuente de Piedra are calling for uncontrolled level crossings to be eradicated after a train travelling between Seville and Malaga hit a lorry on a crossing of that type between the town and Bobadilla on Tuesday, and injured four ... people. The train pushed the lorry for about 75 metres before being able to stop. The company which owns the lorry is based in Fuente de Piedra, and one of the occupants of the vehicle, who was seriously injured and was taken by emergency helicopter to ... the Clínico hospital in Malaga, lives there. His condition is still serious but he is said to be out of danger. The other occupant of the lorry and two passengers on the train, one of them a pregnant woman, were also injured and needed medical
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NURIA TRIGUERO
...centre of the multinational's Hyperloop supersonic train. HOW DOES IT WORK? Passengers. The passenger capsules move through the interior of steel tubes supported by cement pillars. The capsule. It moves through the tube, where there is very low ... Adif and Virgin for the experimentation centre for the new supersonic hyperloop train is "excellent news" for the region, and reinforces its reputation as a benchmark for innovation and research. "The supersonic trains of the future are to be developed ... Elon Musk announced his idea of building an ultrasonic train based on vacuum tubes and magnetic levitation, and strangely enough, that was also the year in which the two giant structures which were to be part of the 'railway loop' project were
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Ivan Gelibter
...replaced by synthetic turf in order to allow for the town's teams to train on it for longer and also to cut down on maintenance and water costs. The athletics track, installed in 1984, has reached the end of its lifespan and requires a complete overhaul.
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IGNACIO LILLO
The Minister of Public Works, Íñigo de la Serna, and his counterpart in the Junta de Andalucía, Felipe López, met in Madrid last week and agreed that the planned extension of the Cercanías railway service from Fuengirola to Marbella will be jointly c
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Ivan Gelibter
Mijas town hall has announced that it has provisionally reserved land in the El Ensanche de la Cala area for a hypothetical coastal train. The councillor for Urban Development, Andrés Ruiz, explained that the objective is for an extended Cercanías ... train to run through the municipality of Mijas. Last January, Minister for Development Íñigo de la Serna presented two alternative options for the train route, which would connect Marbella and Estepona to the current railway network. One idea is for
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Álvaro FRÍAS / Juan CANO
Two men accused of racially abusing Chinese student Iris Zhang on a train between Fuengirola and Malaga have been arrested thanks to her clever use of social media, through which the suspects were quickly identified. Following the contribution of