Wednesday, February 19, 2025

You Could Casually Own An Island For £350 000

Go! Go and buy this island right now and throw parties and drink for days – no one will ever hear you and it will be lovely. Alternatively you can breed sheep and read books all day. Your choice.

This Is Where George Took Amal On Honeymoon

Get your envy protectors on, as The Telegraph’s “Seychelles expert” Tim Ecott gives some inside information into the honeymoon that George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin treated themselves to.

Now You Can Buy The Most Haunted Place On Earth

In the market for an island? If you don’t mind ghosts, the occasional possession, a morbid back story and loads of corpses, this island just off of Venice, Italy, could be just the fixer-upper you’ve been looking for.

The Floating Tech Start Up Haven Is Becoming A Reality

Venture capitalist, Peter Theil’s dream of an artificial island utopia for tech start-ups is inching closer to reality off the coast of San Francisco. Riding a wave of investment capital from Thiel, the project has a name – “Blueseed” – and a website, as well as a lengthy lineup of tech companies that want to get on board.

Welcome To Nuku Hiva, Our Guides Would Love To Have You For Dinner

Sailing around the world, stopping off to bask in the sun on white sandy beaches and exploring the hidden treasures of beautiful remote Pacific islands; these were, most likely, on Stefan Ramin’s lists of things to do when he set out on his adventures. Getting eaten by a cannibal tour guide however, was not.

Billionaire Funding Construction Of Artificial, Libertarian Islands

Don’t worry, the artificial libertarian islands will have better names than that. Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and early Facebook investor, has given $1.25 million to an initiative to build libertarian island states in international waters. Because that’s what you do when you’rea 43-year-old gay libertarian with money to kill, I guess.