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Going away with your family needn't mean gluing yourselves to a beach for a week or returning to that same tried and tested villa for another year.

Here at Black Tomato, we reckon there comes a time in everyone's life when it's time to step away from...

When you think of Canada in culinary terms, the first thing that springs to mind is that most delicious of golden elixirs; maple syrup. But this country is home to many more delicacies than just this amber nectar. From juicy lobster fresh from the waters of Nova Scotia, mouth-watering beef...

Last weekend was Earth Day; a globally acknowledged day on which events are held all over the world to increase awareness and appreciation of the Earth's natural resources and the beauty of it all in general. With this in mind we've searched high and low for hotels and accommodation that...

Aren't we all in search of happiness? The UN has recently released their World Happiness Report 2012, with Nordic inhabitants coming out on top: Denmark, Finland and Norway took the top three spots. The rankings were based on a number called the "life evaluation score," which measures a variety of...

So, we're smack bang in the middle of a drought in our fair land. To remedy our hose-pipe ban blues here at Black Tomato we've selected our favourite water-based adventures from across the globe to whet your travel appetite. Swimming is just a bit too obvious for this...

As our urban landscapes continue to expand outwards, the green spaces within these landscapes become more and more precious. To our delight, and the delight of city dwellers the world over, these so-called urban green space are experiencing somewhat of a resurgence as unexpected and unused spaces are put to...

This year, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic adventure novel "The Lost World," celebrates its centenary.

Recalling the vivid and exotic images Doyle painted of South America has got us thinking about the places in today's world that still hark back to an age of strange, unexplored lands.

For...

Falling asleep beneath a star sprinkled sky is the stuff of dreams, fairy tales and rom-coms. Or maybe not it seems; at the Nkwichi Lodge in Mozambique you can slumber under the night sky on their new 'Lake of Stars Bed'. Pitched up on a private rock island this new...

We all think we know Australia pretty well: The familiar faces are Uluru, The Sydney Opera House and The Great Barrier Reef. But with so much diversity packed into so many miles of changing landscape, we thought we'd share our ever deepening love for the antipodes.

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For those partaking, this week saw the start of Lent, the first day of an arduous six-week period of abstinence from those most luxurious of fatty foodstuffs.

Like all you epicureans out there, here at Black Tomato we're thinking past the fast, to the national food holidays...

With its flamingo filled soda lakes, gilded beaches lapped by gin-clear waters, spectacular safaris, manifold wildlife, lush sylvan forests and Africa's tallest mountain, Tanzania is an intoxicating land; there is much to discover. The country is as unique as the precious gemstone it lends its name to; Tanzanite, which can...

Nestled between Greenland and Scandinavia in the North Atlantic Ocean, is Iceland, a country that, for all its size, bewilders those who visit with its dynamic -- and frequently eccentric -- culture. With a unique café and bar culture, top notch cuisine, an effervescent nightlife and a burgeoning music scene,...

On rare, but beautiful occasions an album of true road tripping calibre will fall in your lap. An album that just cries out to be driven to. With Bruce Springsteen set to realease his 17th album, Wrecking Ball, on March 5th, we were prompted to take a look through his...

Cuba is the motherland for rum lovers. This Saturday, 4 February, marks a very important date in the rum diaries of rum lovers the world over; the grand old 150th anniversary of Barcardi Rum. On this beautiful day in 1862, Don Facundo Bacardi Masso created what was to become the...

The decadent glamor and glitz of the roaring '20s is back. The fashion and film world is sticking a few jazz hands up in the face of this age of austerity and we can't get enough of it. The catwalks of Gucci and Prada were awash with art deco motifs....

It's a fabulous time to be a film fan, as the awards season gets going full swing, with the Golden Globes last week and the BAFTAs and the Oscars to come. As excited as we are here at Black Tomato about the up and coming award ceremonies, it's...

If you've got a passion for the arts, there's no doubt that passion flickers inside you like a tiny little flame. Here at Black Tomato, with our list of 2012's top exhibitions we want to expose that flame to accelerant in order to ignite the your innate wanderlust.

January. Those four frosty syllables are enough to send a chill down the spine of even the greatest optimist. But it doesn't have to conjure thoughts of days spent indoors and gray skies. We here atBlack Tomato won't allow it.

Let us use January as a staging...

Finland's innovative capital, Helsinki could be likened to a bumblebee; small, ebullient, and packing a punch well beyond its weight. A design punch in Helsinki's case. Having been crowned the Design Capital 2012 this little gem in the Nordic crown boasts a 25-street, 200-business Design District in which contemporary Finnish...

2012 heralds the centurial anniversary of Robert F. Scott's mortiferous expedition to the South Pole. Scott and his men sadly perished on the arduous journey home towards the coast. Knowing the formidable nature of the Poles as we do now, only serves to excentuate our reverence for the great achievement...