Posts Tagged ‘ Greece ’

In a busy week, the BA cabin crew strike begins but. on the plus side. there are the 4th of July celebrations and the London Korea Festival is on next Saturday.

Award-winning journalist and author, Nick Kontis, shares his travel highs and lows with Just About Travel

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

Australian travel writer and author, Campbell Jefferys, shares his travel highs and lows with Just About Travel

Getting hitched is the most socially accepted reason on the planer to ditch work and undertake your longest, most splurge-iest trip ever. Here’s 10 island ideas to help get you started

Each German adult and child spent 20 days on average holidaying in 2016. They are the world champions of travel.

No beer or sausages on Friday as the Germans try to persuade Adrian and others to write about Germany. What is the world coming to?

Getting to Greece next summer will be even easier – as if it wasn’t now – when even more flights link the UK and Ireland with Greece next summer.

The opening of the skiing season is early in Alpe d’Huez, light shows are becoming increasingly popular and soon there will be direct flights to the city of the Terracotta Army.

Bus arrivals, holiday safety and unhelpful tourism answers by government ministers are some of the things that helped exasperate Adrian this week. But then he was sent a picture of a bus sign…

Why an aeroplane cabin door is on Shoreditch High Street is one of the things Adrian mentions this week along with Newcastle-Gateshead success and the end of refurbishment at the Glenfinnan Monument.

Just About Travel tells you what’s hot in the travel world for October

With the Paralympics, cake trails inspired by The Great British Bake-Off, a space-themed kids area at Washington Dulles airport and free-interest installment ways to buy holidays, Adrian is spoilt for choice this week.

Frederic begins his cruise and tour of some of the Aegean islands.

What have jousting, the Olympics, Yorkie and VAT in Tanzania in common? All caught Adrian’s eye this week.

Pack your beach towel and hit one of these stretches of sand…

Airport delays, strikes in France, Belgium and Greece, restrictions on island destinations in Thailand all tend to deflate Adrian this coming bank holiday.

It’s St George’s Day and the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare. Even in Shakespeare’s day, his fame was widely known as a letter in the National Library of Wales shows. Two of his contemporaries are praised for having presented the public with treasure greater than the gold of Mexico in the Bard’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies of 1623. I mentioned last week the main celebrations in the UK today. Apparently, the only other purpose buil theatre in Shakespeare’s day outside London was in
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As easter approached, Adrian has a rather full column rannging from theme parks to gardens and from the new Glasgow Restaurant Festival to how some destinations just have some kitties to entice us to them.

If the dank and wet weather that we seem to have been having for months continues into the Easter holidays then a hot, sunny destination might take your fancy. How about Tobago in the Caribbean? Over the Easter period, they have some key sporting events that might attract you. Like the Buccoo Goat & Crab Racing Festival which has been held for over 90 years. The goat and crab racing festivals are held annually at the Buccoo Racing Stadium on Easter Monday and Tuesday. The
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A new children’s play area at Alicante airport, Piers Morgan giving the travel industry a hard time and how can someone on £15,000 afford three holidays a year? It’s all part of Adrian’s catch-up of the week.

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

Yesterday evening the Foreign Office issued guidance that Britons should not visit Tunisia. Greece proposed doubling the rate of VAT on accommodation and volcanic clouds affecting flights over Bali are stranding tourists there.

Just About Travel reveals what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world this month

For those holidaying in Greece this year, the announcement over the weekend that ATM’s would restrict pay-outs to €60 per day from this Tuesday has confused some visitors.

It’s Armed Forces Day today and Glastonbury and the Festival of Speed are on as well. Adrian avoids all of these to discuss the smaller stories of the week!

Travel presenter and translator, Elisa Rosales, talks travel

Adrian includes a competition, ferry price reductiona and new attractions running over the bank holiday weekend in this week’s round-up.