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Brits storing millions worth of foreign currency

A staggering 170 millions of pounds worth of foreign currency lies dormant in people’s drawers across the country, according to a recent survey carried out by online travel and leisure giant Lastminute.com.

Research reveals worrying trends for gap year students

With exam results announced last week, A-level students everywhere will be wondering how to spend their gap years. While many devote their time to finding the perfect trip, it seems that there are a significant proportion of would-be travellers who give little thought to their personal safety.

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Then come to our travel-writing seminar to hear experts in the field, including editors and published authors, give advice on how to write successful articles and guidebooks. Plus, win the chance to write a guidebook for Bradt Travel Guides.

Flexible gap years with SnowSkool

SnowSkool offers a variety of start dates, diverse locations and course prices to the next generation of ski & snowboard instructors. SnowSkool is celebrating its fourth year as one of the UK’s leading ski and snowboard gap year providers and is pleased to announce the start of a second season in New Zealand.

A fiery taste of Sussex

The award winning city of Brighton is gearing up to host the fifth Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival this September (7–30 September 2007). With an incredible and diverse calendar of events, 2007 is guaranteed to be the biggest and most successful year in the history of the festival according to VisitBrighton.com – the official online guide to Brighton.

Get a taste for travel - Intrepid style

Capture the moment with travel photographer Steve Davey as he guides you through Intrepid’s new range of photography trips or experience the undiscovered beauty of Bolivia as Pilot Guides launch their new travel DVD at Intrepid’s Islington Store next month.

New ebookers website for smart travellers

ebookers, a leading full service online travel company in Europe, has re-launched its U.K. website (ebookers.co.uk) offering customers greater functionality and a better user experience.

Amsterdam Dance Event – the world’s biggest club festival

Organised by Buma Cultuur, The Amsterdam Dance Event is the worlds biggest club festival with over 600 DJs and acts in 40 of Amsterdam’s finest venues, DJ cafés, record stores, lounges and art galleries. Now in its twelfth year, the ADE has grown into a business conference that attracts 1900 key professionals and a club festival audience of 65,000.

Spend Christmas in the lap of luxury

Spend this Christmas in the lap of luxury with a stay at Kemble Cottage in Bradford-upon-Avon. The cottage offers superior accommodation for up to four guests including a king size four poster bed. This boutique town has many upmarket shops to fill Christmas stockings, but is also just a short distance from the shopping heaven of Bath.

Austravel LIVE – the Down Under travel show

Austravel LIVE is the only travel show specialising in Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific and Worldwide Stopovers and it’s coming soon to Manchester and London. Each weekend, visitors to Austravel LIVE can discover an exhilarating array of experiences Down Under from an awesome range of 35 exhibitors – from airlines and hotels to adventure specialists and tour companies.

Murder mystery at Kansas’ Old Cowtown Museum

Mike Wasson, owner and proprietor of Big Mike's Little Theatre, has announced that the popular Mystery Dinner Theatre will be offering quality whodunit mystery entertainment at Wichita's Old Cowtown Museum beginning September 1st.

Changing weather affecting fruits and fungi

The weather has made a huge impact across the country in terms of floods, but it is also affecting the fruits and fungi in The National Forest. This year has seen a greater number of species flowering or fruiting earlier such as the primrose in early January and now blackberry and raspberry, which are already ripe but much smaller than usual.