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

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

It’s wet, windy and dark at four o clock so it must be time to head abroad and bask in some winter sun. Just About Travel has the low-down on 10 destinations where sun, sand and sea come as standard

The underwater explorer, extreme diver, climber, skydiver and adventurer, BBC and discovery TV presenter, speaker, author and film maker talks travel

Kaye discovers that the festive season doesn’t always have to be about far flung travel…

The CRUISE Show visits Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow this autumn – and we have 10 pairs of tickets up for grabs!

Travel journalist, broadcaster and author, Sarah Tucker, shares a few tips on ridding yourself of emotional baggage with Just About Travel readers

A huge 61 per cent of Brits say they select their holiday by searching online for the best deals

Almost half of British men are in favour of women sunbathing topless on holiday

Flexible, independent travellers are nabbing the best deals on flights whilst those tied to work and family miss out

Heading overseas to escape the Olympics? Have fun but be safe: Richie Nanda,chairman of The Shield Guarding Company Limited, shows us the way to go…

Thanks to the monsoon like UK weather, chances are many of us will be getting ready to jet off to enjoy a well-deserved sun soaked break. But, as the government announces that the UK is officially in a double-dip recession, looking for ways to save when escaping overseas could and should be of utmost importance to UK travellers. With this in mind, travel search site Kayak, has put together eight top tips to help keep your wallet full when searching for and enjoying that trip away

Here at CD-Traveller towers, we suspect that there are two types of people reading this website. There are those who will look back on Easter and say “that was an eggscellent trip” and there are those who will have laid in bed worrying about the recession. If you fall into the second category, then we have some good news for you! There are plenty of places you can visit this Easter, that don’t require you to remortgage the house

“Why go all the way to Bondi when you can come to Bridlington?” remarks Rupert Grint. The Harry Potter star features – alongside Stephen Fry and Downtown Abbey’s Michelle Dockery – in the new £4million government backed ‘Holidays at Home’ scheme.

Make the most of your hard-earned cash with Stephen Baker’s 25 top holiday moneysaving tips

Silver surfers are travelling further and longer than their children, according to a survey conducted by incognito insect repellant – a natural insect repellant which is effective against all species of mosquito and other insects.

First Choice and Thomson holidaymakers are to pay more for their vacations next year, owing to the rising costs of fuel and accommodation.

The British travel industry is up in arms: the Chancellor is expected to raise the Air Passenger Duty (APD) – aka flight tax – by 25 percent in his autumn statement on November 29 and industry insiders are worried that British holidaymakers will subsequently stop flying abroad.

Handy hints on how to perfect your packing

As I thumbed through The Lancet last week, that well known medical anti-insomniac relief for non medical types, I read something that kept me awake. Research at a Harvard University outpost, the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston in USA seems to indicate that this drug may relieve some of the inability to sleep as you cross time zones. Tested on 411 people who had “transient insomnia” over a 7 day period, some of the patients were given a placebo and the others, tasimelteon. Sleep
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Adrian spends sooo much time at the airports, however, being male, and I assume a sparse packer, I very much doubt he has experienced the issues females travelling alone have with the toilets at airports. We are constantly reminded that we are not to leave our luggage alone at any time, so off we pop to the toilets, with hand luggage and 21KG suitcase in tow…. HOWEVER, once there, unless you are a size zero (which i am most definitely NOT!) one has to allow
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