Here we pick a selection of the best travel-related programmes, books and radio shows that will provide some isolation inspiration for the week ahead. On the page . . . Spin across Europe Glorious: Beat the blue with Helen Moat’s tales of Istanbul in her book A Time Of Birds Helen embarks on a 3,000-mile cycle … Read more
Pictured for the first time empty and stuck on the tarmac in Istanbul airport, this is the RAF transport plane that remains grounded in Turkey while it waits to collect 84 tons of desperately-needed PPE supplies. The Atlas A400 remains unloaded, sources have told MailOnline, with the vital life-saving equipment nowhere to be seen at the … Read more
An RAF plane collecting crucial PPE for the coronavirus battle is still grounded in Turkey today with ministers admitting the desperately-needed supplies might not be in the UK for days. The government originally declared that the 84 tonnes of life-saving equipment would arrive on Sunday, but it failed to turn up. They then claimed it … Read more
Ministers face fresh fury today as a vital shipment of coronavirus protective kit from Turkey looks set to be delayed again – with some hospitals resorting to washing medical gowns for reuse. Downing Street has been trying to play down expectations over the arrival of 84 tonnes of life-saving supplies, which failed to turn up … Read more
Here are the NHS workers MailOnline understands to be among those who have died during the coronavirus pandemic so far: Dr Krishan Arora, general practitioner Dr Krishan Arora is the latest medical worker to die of Covid-19 bringing the total to 54 Dr Krishan Arora is a doctor who is believed to have died after … Read more
Turkey has sent a second planeload of emergency equipment to Britain to help medics fighting the deadly coronavirus. The first flight from Ankara took off on Friday carrying PPE including surgical masks, N95 industrial masks and hazmat suits, with a second flight landing on Saturday at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, the defence ministry said. The items were … Read more
Pensioner, 93, walks out of intensive care in Turkey after recovering from coronavirus following ten days of treatment Alye Gunduz, 93, walked out of intensive care of a Istanbul hospital yesterday The novel Covid-19 coronavirus risks hitting the capital, and Turkey, hard Suffering from hypertension, Gunduz, a farmer from Turkey’s southeastern city of Batman, was … Read more
Ruinous hotels aren’t typically recommended – but an exception can definitely be made for this one for a post-lockdown escape. Behold the one-of-a-kind Museum Hotel in Antakya, Turkey, a lodge for wannabe Tomb Raiders that ‘floats’ above the ruins of over a dozen civilisations dating back to the third century BC, which were discovered in … Read more
Britons had their holiday plans thrown into further doubt today as Turkey became the latest tourist hotspot to be hit by coronavirus. Turkish officials announced the country’s first case today after a man with a high fever and a cough was isolated after testing positive. Britons made more than 2.5million visits to Turkey last year, … Read more
The month began with gin, and it wasn’t long before strange, melancholic headaches became a regular feature. By the third week of this particular month (I’m not saying which), things needed to change. That’s how I find myself at the Barberyn retreat and spa in Beruwala, an unfussy little town on Sri Lanka’s west coast, … Read more