Glastonbury Festival is hoping to reduce its environmental impact by banning single-use plastic bottles for all 200,000 festival-goers, as well as performers and staff. Glastonbury Festival is banning single-use plastics. Image by Ollie Millington/Redferns via Getty In the aftermath of the annual Glastonbury Festival it has become the norm to see images of rubbish-strewn fields […]

We released the Indie Travel Manifesto with Rolf Potts in February 2012, and it has been a guiding post/filter for us since then. We have dedicated everything we do to align with Indie Travelers, long-term travel, and folks who relate to the Manifesto. As we work on our newest reboot of Bootsnall, we’re exploring what […]

Following the success of the award-winning Sinai Trail that opened in 2015, a new hiking route called the Red Sea Mountain Trail has just been unveiled. The 170km-long route, the first long-distance trail in mainland Egypt, highlights the little-visited rugged mountainscapes outside the beachside resort town of Hurghada and heralds the arrival of a new […]

If you’re a fan of former ‘Fixer Upper’ stars, Chip and Joanna Gaines, you may want to visit their new coffee shop when it opens in their hometown of Waco, Texas. The popular home improvement duo have also just purchased the ultimate in posh homes in the area – the historic Cottonland Castle. Chip and Joanna Gaines are […]