Tag: Hell

Camping heaven or holiday hell?

Ah camping, how I love and loathe you in equal measures.

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Ah camping, how I love and loathe you in equal measures.

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We’ve done two family camping trips these school holidays. Wonderful, memory-making stuff, and simultaneously terrible for neck alignment and sensible dietary choices.

We do these trips with other families, which is marvellous for several reasons.

The children entertain each other reasonably well, and if you forget to bring something (towels, coffee… hypothetically, of course), chances

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Biden in Egypt says U.S. will do its part to avert a “climate hell”

President Joe Biden vowed at a climate conference in Egypt Friday that U.S. will do its part to avert a “climate hell,” a reference to U.N. Secretary General António Guterres’ dire warning that “we are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator.” On Monday, Guterres told world leaders that Earth is rapidly approaching “tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible.”

Mr. Biden touted U.S. climate efforts at home and around the world, and said with “confidence” the U.S. would reach its emissions targets by 2030.

“We’re proving that good climate policy is good economic

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Woman’s Family Vacation Hell on Day 3 With In-Laws Has Internet in Stitches

A woman’s ramblings about being “stuck in holiday cottage with family” has humored users on Mumsnet.

In a post shared on the online forum under the username Thousandthingstosay, the woman provided a running commentary of day three of her family trip in the Peak District of North England in the U.K., detailing the “highlights so far” in a series of bullet points.

While family vacations may be tolerable at best sometimes, the demand for travel in the U.S. was reported to be strong in 2021, after a sharp decline in 2020.

According to the 2021 edition of the annual U.S.

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