?>Fancy somewhere different for your next European getaway? These three less crowded of my favourite destinations are easily accessible from UK airports. Oviedo While Southern Spanish beaches are often far from relaxing, Asturias‘ calmer shores remain a haven of unspoilt sands. The area i...
Read moreEffortlessly stylish with wonderfully classy service, our home for the last three nights of an Atlanta to New Orleans road trip was worth the wait. Inexplicably, I’d decided to book more comfortable and inevitably expensive rooms as we went along, starting at the should-have-known-it-would-be-terrible seemingly massive bargain end. A stay in a grubby Chattanooga motel, irritable from a nine-hour flight, followed by 120 miles in an unfamiliar (huge) hire car on daunting rush-hour highways, quickly proved a big mistake. Thankfully our hit and miss bookings improved and by the time we got to ni...
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?>A survey of 1,000 city-dwelling parents and their children aged six to 12 revealed that 21% of kids have never tried climbing a tree, while 35% have never slept in a tent. Other activities they’ve missed out on include camping (32%), eating a meal cooked on a camp stove (39%), or goi...
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?>After a century of British Airways operations in India, it has announced the addition of a daily flight between Delhi and London Heathrow from April next year. The move is part of the airline’s efforts to expand its presence in India, bringing its total weekly flights across the c...
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?>Cunard has announced record-breaking bookings following the highly anticipated launch of its new ship Queen Anne. The 3,000-guest vessel set sail on an historic maiden voyage on 3 May before returning to her homeport of Southampton on 24 May to begin her celebratory British Isles Festival ...
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