Our overcrowded little island
It is not surprising that travel is difficult and expensive in our small and overcrowded little island. We have more than 60 million people moving around and most families have more than one car, public transport is erratic and overcrowded and government taxes on fuel are amoungst the highest anywhere. Here I have included my personal recommendations plus what I consider to be the most useful information and ads.
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Swiss airline to open base at Cambridge
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21 May 2013 at 10:47am
Darwin Airline will offer four European routes from September
Firms fail to enforce travel expenses policy
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21 May 2013 at 10:37am
‘Out of policy’ travel bookings still being approved by companies
Gatwick Express ‘veers towards Third World conditions’
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20 May 2013 at 2:47pm
New airport chairman says train service must be improved
HRG strikes deal with Libyan agency
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20 May 2013 at 10:13am
Business travel firm adds partner in North African country
Ryanair surges to record profits
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20 May 2013 at 9:56am
O’Leary hints that airline could start adding capacity at Stansted
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Six of world's best wild-water swims
12 Jun 2010 at 1:01am
Mexico Can’t do cold water? Then the Sea of Cortes should tick your boxes; the average temperature in the briny here is 25C . You will be based on Espiritu Santo island in Baja California, and the swimming during the week-long trip (about 6km each day) is along beaches and through coves and bays where you may be an object of curiosity for inquisitive sea lions.
Wild-water swimming in Turkey
12 Jun 2010 at 1:01am
Despite living two centuries apart, I feel that I share a lot with Lord Byron — 18th-century poet, lover, dandy, bon viveur, icon.
Times Walks: Slieve Gullion, Co Armagh
12 Jun 2010 at 1:01am
Ever smelt pine needles properly?” inquired my companion, the walker and naturalist Ron Murray, as we strolled the Forest Drive along the southern flank of Slieve Gullion. “Crush ’em like this between your finger and thumb.”
20 best seaside villas in Europe
12 Jun 2010 at 1:01am
1 Eco Fisherman’s Cottage, Lanzarote, Spain This solar-powered fisherman’s cottage on the seafront in the pretty fishing village of Arrieta, northeast Lanzarote, is a stone’s throw from a sandy cove. It sleeps two adults and two children, and has been lovingly converted: wood furniture, cream throws, plants and paintings, a fully fitted kitchen, two bathrooms and lounge opening out on to the promenade. The balcony has superb sea views and the shaded courtyard is perfect for alfresco dining. There are good coastal walking and cycling trails from the doorstep, and the mountain village of Haria is just a short drive away.
If it’s good enough for Keats...
6 Jun 2010 at 1:01am
Iquestion if there be a room in England which commands a view of mountains and lakes and woods superior to that in which I am now writing.” If you read that in a holiday-home company’s blurb, you might dismiss it as a touch flowery. But when you learnt that the copywriter was a Mr Coleridge, you’d sit up and take notice. You might even want to stay there. And you can.
20 great chef-owned hotels
5 Jun 2010 at 1:01am
ENGLAND
Where Raymond Blanc eats on holiday
5 Jun 2010 at 1:01am
I have always said that food is the best healer. So when I smashed my leg in five places by falling down my stairs in March, I knew that I needed to find an hotel with a great restaurant where I could convalesce. Naturally, I thought that France would be the best antidote to melancholy and the Provençal spring sun the best provider of vitamin D.
The forgotten islands off Sweden’s coast
5 Jun 2010 at 1:01am
Karin Holmstrom lives at the ends of the earth, but it’s easy enough to pay her a visit. Just give some kroner to a boatman in the village of Fjällbacka on the west coast of Sweden and he’ll run you 12 miles (20km) out to sea to a place where water and sky are broken by low, bare rocks that seem to inhabit the middle of nowhere. On one of these stark, treeless outposts, waiting to greet you at a little wooden jetty, is Karin.
20 wild days out in the UK countryside
5 Jun 2010 at 1:01am
Pony express, Dartmoor, Devon Explore 400 sq miles of moorland on horseback — children even get to ride the famous Dartmoor ponies. Trot past rocky outcrops, gorse and heather, and splash through streams. dartmoorstables.com, 01364 621281
The world’s 20 best hotel pools
29 May 2010 at 5:55pm
1 Perivolas, Santorini, Greece
Travel by train though the Lake District
29 May 2010 at 1:01am
The train breezes down the Cumbrian coast, on one of Britain’s most absorbing — and least known — rail journeys. The morning mists are lifting, the couple opposite are sharing their first Polos of the day and I’m studying a chart showing how many passengers use the two dozen stations along the line, which runs from Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness.
Kilimanjaro: my nightmare climb
29 May 2010 at 1:01am
I had never thought about climbing Mount Kilimanjaro until I learnt of its statistics. Of the 25,000 climbers who attempt it each year, 40 per cent don’t make it to the top and a handful don’t make it down at all. A ghoulish curiosity set in. Would I be a winner or a loser? What price that one moment of looking down on the world?
The 40 best British beaches
29 May 2010 at 1:01am
Beaches for swimmers
Q&A: your options during BA strikes
26 May 2010 at 4:26pm
When are the strikes?
An insider’s guide to the World Cup cities
22 May 2010 at 1:01am
Cape Town
Local and National Public transport information
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The latest incident information for England's motorway and trunk routes provided by the Highways Agency
A45 eastbound between A46 near Coventry (west) and A46 near Coventry (east) |...
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21 May 2013 at 4:41pm
On the A45 from Coventry South towards The M45 between the junctions with the A46 Coventry West and the A46 Coventry East, there are currently delays of 10 mins due to heavy traffic . Normal traffic conditions expected from 5:30 pm.
A5 southbound between M42 and B4116 near Atherstone (west) | Southbound | Con...
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21 May 2013 at 4:28pm
On the A5 from Cannock towards Harpenden between the junctions with the M42 and the A444, there are currently delays of 10 mins due to heavy traffic . Normal traffic conditions expected from 5:15 pm.
A30 eastbound between A386 and B3260 near Okehampton (west) | Eastbound | Ove...
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21 May 2013 at 4:24pm
On the A30 from Penzance towards Honiton between the junctions with the A386 and the A382, there are currently delays of 10 mins due to an overturned vehicle closing one lane. Normal traffic conditions expected from 5:15 pm.
A50 eastbound between A500 and A5007 near Longton (west) | Eastbound | Conges...
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21 May 2013 at 4:16pm
On the A50 eastbound between the junctions with the A500 and the A520, there are currently delays of 15 mins due to heavy traffic . Normal traffic conditions expected from 5:15 pm.
