British Airways today announced a not-to-be-missed fly drive offer to the UK, giving petrol heads and pleasure seekers the opportunity to get behind a wheel for less.Book a fly-drive holiday on ba.com between now and 15 December 2009 and enjoy a HK$500 discount on your package for bookings made up to 31 March 2010.“Nothing beats […]
A British man who arrived at a Spanish airport on Wednesday after having too much to drink was taken into custody - not for bad behaviour but for being too generous.Turns out the tourist had recently received an inheritance, and he had started to give away 52,000 euros ($A91,662.26) he was carrying in cash and […]
The crew of a South African Airways (SAA) plane arrested after a drugs haul find were released on bail without charge on Wednesday, British customs officials said.The flight and cabin crew — 10 women and five men — will have to report back to British police in March after being arrested at London Heathrow Airport […]
About 250 protesters in fancy-dress gathered for a mass picnic at London’s Heathrow airport on Monday, police said, as they sought new tactics in their fight against plans to build a third runway.Amid heavy security, the demonstrators wore clothes in the style of the early 1900s and some dressed as suffragettes, the activists who campaigned […]
Just as the falling pound has sparked hopes that foreign tourists will flock to Britain for cheaper holidays, the government’s tourism chief warned Thursday that poor service could put them off.Christopher Rodrigues, the chairman of Visit Britain, told the Independent that 50,000 jobs in the sector could go because of the recession — and miserable […]
James May ‘Sometimes the journey itself can be great, especially if in a car’First holiday memory?Oddly enough, it’s of the back seat of a car. I was so small I’d already gone to bed but was heaved out again for a night drive down to somewhere like Dorset in the MkI Cortina. It was the […]
Few places can have such heavyweight literary associations in relation to their size as Lynmouth, tucked below looming Exmoor on the north Devon coast. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge knew the harbour village well; Percy Bysshe Shelley is supposed to have brought his 16-year-old bride Harriet here in their wanderings, following their flight to […]
Destination of the week: UkraineThe largest country wholly in Europe becomes more accessible in the next few weeks. The Hungarian-based no-frills airline, Wizz Air (00 48 22 351 9499; wizzair.com) is launching flights from Luton to Ukraine’s capital, Kiev, on 17 December. This big, handsome city is bitterly cold for much of the winter, but […]
Simone Kane suggests how you can turn the annual search for presents into a overnight stayLondonSee the sights: Don’t miss the bicentenary Darwin exhibition at the Natural History Museum (020-7942 5000; nhm.org ).Stop for lunch: Dip into dim sum at Min Jiang (020-7361 1988; minjiang. co.uk ), recently opened at the Royal Garden Hotel on […]
Forget rusticity - these cosy farm buildings are seriously chic.Bull Barn Cottage, YorkshireAs the name suggests, this cosy retreat is more like a cottage than a farm building, though it has, in fact, been sympathetically converted from a 17th-century barn. The cottage’s contemporary interior features an open-plan kitchen and living area, modern bathroom facilities, and […]