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Working backpackers forfeiting travel insurance?
September sees the start of the great Gap Year exodus. But as over 430,000 British backpackers hit the trail, they risk invalidating their travel insurance by taking on voluntary or casual work, warns online insurance specialist Essential Travel.
Halloween for the whole family
Thick fog is settling over fallen leaves, weird creatures are lurking in dark corners and eerie laughter makes the visitors shiver with fear – Halloween has come to Europa-Park! From 27 September to 2 November more than 150,000 pumpkins and 200 skeletons will transform Germany’s biggest theme park into a creepy Halloween landscape where scary witches, goblins, ghosts and demons gather for spooky roller coaster rides including a truly terrifying ride inside a giant pumpkin.
Overseas travel booms as England struggles
The country may be feeling the pinch of the economic downturn but it would seem that holidays are proving to be the last luxury to be given up. According to Gold Medal Travel Group the country may be heading into a recession but their figures are showing that people are spending more money than ever on holidays.
Set sail with Titan HiTours
Titan HiTours, the escorted tours specialist, has unveiled its brand new selection of Cruise and Tour holidays for 2009, showcasing five new itineraries in Europe, Asia and North America. The brochure combines the very best in cruise experiences around the world – from the splendour of a sea crossing on the Queen Mary 2 to the intimate ambiance of a river cruiser on a scenic European waterway – with structured, land-based sightseeing programmes and, of course, the unrivalled quality, high standards and value for money for which Titan HiTours is synonymous.
Discover the secrets of Shakespeare Country this Christmas
Discover the secrets of Shakespeare Country this Christmas with spectacular Christmas Lights, Carol Concerts, Festive Markets, Christmas Stories and a Royal Shakespeare Company performance of Romeo & Juliet. Historic Warwick and Kenilworth, Royal Leamington Spa, Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon and the Cotswolds offer all the components for a magical break this Christmas.
Truffles, duck and wine
The specialist tour organiser BKWine has launched the spring program 2009 with two new wine and food tours. The destinations include Périgord (with truffles, duck and wine), and the wins and food of the Alentejo in Portugal. The detailed programs are available on Bkwine.com.
Chalets Direct gets interactive for skiers and snowboarders
September is traditionally the time when people start getting serious about booking their ski holiday. In response to this, the leading ski website chaletsdirect.com has grouped together a variety of services to form a new interactive area for people looking for ski and snowboard breaks.
Agro tourism - a growing trend in the UK
Interest in UK farmstay holidays has more than doubled in the past year according to the world's leading online ethical holiday company, responsibletravel.com.
Travellers don’t know where to stash their cash
Care-free gap year travellers are putting their travel cash at risk, as over one in seven (16%) think the best place to store all their cash overseas is in their jeans pocket.
Galapagos for 2009
Few academic texts have had such profound and enduring resonance as Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species, published in November 1859. Initially ridiculed by his peers and damned by religious figures, Darwin’s theory of evolution through natural selection now lies at the heart of modern understanding of the natural word. However, almost 200 years since Darwin’s birth, the teaching of evolution is still challenged by reactionary religious figures preferring a creationist worldview.
Steppe into the Auvergne
An 'extremely rare' 400,000 year old skull belonging to a 3.7m tall Steppe Mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii), has been unearthed in the Auvergne region of southern France. Scientists hope that the skull will provide the 'missing link' in mammoth evolution.
Land of dragons
With summer retreating and autumn cool-footing it right behind, only with a promise of falling leaves and bonfires – Trips Worldwide suggests a way to prolong the heat with a waft of fiery breath from the land of dragons – Vietnam and Singapore, combining legend, spectacular landscapes, superb accommodation, excellent cuisine and numerous cultural highlights.
Absolutely fabulous!
Throughout her childhood days in the steamy land of peninsula of Malaysia, Joanna Lumley harboured a dream to see the Northern Lights – Aurora Borealis. The realisation of her dream, filmed for the BBC and broadcast on BBC1 7th September 2008, took Ms Lumley to the remote wilderness of northern Norway.
Pacific Coast, Andes Mountains and an Olympic trainer
The 2008 Beijing Olympics may be over but for Equine Adventures, the journey’s only just begun. Gallop along spectacular Pacific beaches spending nights under the stars, then journey into the High Andean mountains, riding through ancient forest, crossing rivers and passing blue lagoons, following in the historical footsteps of the Spanish conquistadors and led by former Spanish Olympic team equestrian trainer, Rodolfo Coombs.
No fast-track journey
In recent response to a concerted campaign of grammatical pedantry, Tesco is changing signs at fast-track checkouts from ‘10 items or less’ to ‘up to 10 items’. So, one fewer affront to English grammar, but has life for those lost in UK Plc’s supermarket of life become any less of a conveyer belt? Dragoman Overland offers a 28-night opportunity to jump the queue and check out India’s Darjeeling & Eastern Horizons travelling through the tribal lands of Orissa, Darjeeling and Sikkim.