Salisbury and Stonehenge: Info and paperwork
Tourism information offices, helpful websites, and passports and other travel bureaucraies
Tourism information offices, helpful websites, and passports and other travel bureaucraies
Visitor information for Salisbury and elsewhere in Wiltshire
Tourist information, guidebooks, maps, tips for niche groups (students, LGBT, seniors, disabled, etc.), and more
All those boring but necessary travel details: passports, entry visas, trip insurance, health insurance, customs regulations, and all the other super-fun pre-trip preparations
Do I need to buy travel health insurance for a trip to the U.K.? What about emergency medical evacuation?
The sheet of backup information is the message in a bottle you send to yourself in case you get into trouble and lose all your important travel documents
Everything you always wanted to know about travel guidebooks by a professional travel writer who spent two decades writing them
Visitors from most developed nations will receive an automatic tourist visa upon entering the U.K.
Advice, resources, & tours for women, LGBT travelers, the disabled, seniors, pilgrims, families, and students
Advice, resources, & tours for gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, and queer travelers in the U.K.
Advice, resources, & tours for pilgrims, Christians, and spiritual travelers in the U.K.
Information and concerns for gay, lesbian, transgender, and bisexual travelers in the U.K.
On August 27, 1896, Britain declared war on its protectorate Zanzibar, where a pretender to the Sultanate had just siezed power.
At 9:02am, British ships in the habor began shelling the would-be Sultan's palace.
By 9:40, the shelling had stopped, the palace was on fire, and the pretender's flag had been cut down.
At 38 minutes, the Anglo-Zanzibar War remains the shortest war on record.
Some 500 Zanzibaris were killed.
One British Petty Officer was wounded.