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Just About Travel tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world

With a general election called, will VAT and APD charges become an issue? Adrian also looks at touriswm on the Thames, in Durham, Leeds and Chicago whilst wondering what will happen to the street vendors of Bangkok.

Just About Travel tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world right now…

Later this month the Lumiere returns to Durham with a wave of installations and projections to illuminate the city’s buildings, streets and bridges.

With the rest of the world to explore, it’s easy to overlook what’s on your doorstep – Blighty! In this, the last in the series, we tell you how to have a capital time in London and reveal the delights of Durham and Bath

I’ve just spent the day in Durham.The students have gone down to be replaced by masses of tourists yet this historic city is only, according to one source, the 17th most popular historic place in Britain. I can’t understand that myself. With the cathedral and castle plus the cobbled city centre and bridges why only 17th? Add the river and the walks along side it, the museums and the old university colleges in the centre and why isn’t in the top ten? Or top 5?I
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