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The low-down on what to expect from Indonesia’s coffee scene

A seal appeared on an Alaskan runway and the runway at Mykonos will be closed for repairs soon. As well as those stories Adrian ponders about who should receive fines when our personal data is hacked and congratulates Hastings Pier on winning the Stirling prize.

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In the meantime, for the adventurous, Toraja should be visited as soon as possible just in case it does change.

Obama’s O’ahu

Gin, street parties and the never ending saga of Jon Platt – the main who took his children on holiday in term time – occupy Adrian’s thoughts this week.

Queues, a new rail service and the reopening of airlinks to Sharm El-Sheikh from Germany are some of Adrian’s thoughts this week.

Indonesia has over 13,000 islands. For the holidaymaker wanting to see as much as possible this presents problems.

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.

Be the first kid on your block to see these brand new attractions, all slated to throw open their doors by 2016.

Travel author Sarah Alderson- who confesses to missing coconuts and sunshine – shares her travel highs and lows with Just About Travel readers

Jeremy Macdonogh, author of A Gap Year or Two, talks travel

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.

As Singapore celebrates 50 years of independence, we show you where to eat and play in the Lion State

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

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

Bang for your buck and pizzazz for your pound: here’s where to stretch 2015’s travel budget until it oozes contentment

Ibu Nia Niscaya is Director of International Tourism Promotion for the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy of the Republic of Indonesia.

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Adrian remebers the entreprenrial Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, records the saving of the Wedgwood Collection for our countries, and looks at how successful some places have been in enticing us to visit them.

From Jet 2 to Jakarta and Bahrain to Brighton, Adrian rounds off some of the week’s travel stories you might have missed.

Everyone knows this London square perhaps because of Nelson’s column, the lions, the fourth plinth resplendent these days with a blue cockerel or because of the Monopoly board game.

This Saturday, Trafalgar Square in London becomes Indonesian for the day as the country “invades” the square bringing the delights of the country to us as a travel destination.

Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world with 17,000 islands making up the country and it stretches 5,200 kilometres from east to west. To be honest, I have heard two different figures about how many islands there are. It is more than anyone is ever likely to visit in one lifetime!

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month it’s good news for Hull and the cruising industry. Not so for New Delhi…

Solely for the UK market, the Indonesians have launched a brand new tourism website dedicated to the UK market. The new site, www.tourism-indonesia.co.uk, is Indonesia’s first official destination site in the UK and reflects their commitment to us as it sees the potential of attracting more of us to holiday and travel there.

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot in the travel world, right now

Most of us need a jolt of caffeine to get things firing. Wherever you find yourself waking up, here are the rules for ordering the perfect coffee