Abigail Newton

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | John Gimlette |Abigail Newton |Rob Crossan |Pippa de Bruyn

Cape Verde's Fogo island sits atop a chamber of magma miles deep, but locals are surprisingly laid-backDriving around Fogo, you get a real sense of the awesome violence within. Some 4.5 million years ago, the island burst out of the sea, and now, although it's only about the size of the Isle of Wight, it rises to a height of 9,281ft. Like Etna (currently in the throes of its own fiery tantrum), it's a stratovolcano, vaguely conical and etched in black.

2 months ago | telegraph.co.uk | Abigail Newton |Rob Crossan |Pippa de Bruyn |Paula Hardy

The low-cost airline thinks you should book a beach holiday to Dakhla in Western Sahara - and frankly, so do ITell people you are off on holiday to Ryanair's latest destination, Dakhla, and you will likely be met with confusion. "Where?" they will ask, with a tilt of the head.