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Dec 7th, 2018 |
By Kaye Holland
Just because you’re a seasoned traveller doesn’t mean you have any reason to get jaded in 2019. There are plenty of exciting new openings coming next year to inspire you to plan your next trip…
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: America, Asia, Australia, Best in Travel, Dubai, Dublin, Ireland, LA, Lonely Planet, Los Angeles, Malaysia, Norway, Oslo, Thailand, UAE
Feb 28th, 2017 |
By Kaye Holland
Just About Travel tells you what’s hot in the travel world right now
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: BA, Bleisure, British Airways, City of Culture, holiday, Hollywood, Hull, LA, London, Miami, Olympics, packrafting, skyscrapers, surf, surfing, Tianjin
Aug 1st, 2016 |
By Kaye Holland
Just About Travel tells you what’s hot in the travel world right now
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Airbnb, Brexit, cambridge, Croydon, expat, holiday brochures, Kate Moss, LA, National Trust, Natural History Museum, Prince, San Francisco, Shoreditch, TUI, Washington DC
Jun 10th, 2016 |
By Kaye Holland
The low-down on three of the most incredible places in the world to grab a drink
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Argentina, Bangkok, bars, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Germany, LA, Palermo, Thailand, The Hangover
May 30th, 2016 |
By Kaye Holland
Food nerd, roaming gnome and host of The Grill Iron on Cooking Channel, Jax Tranchida, talks travel
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Airbnb, America, Austin, Barack Obama, Berlin, Cooking Channel, Cuba, Dubai, France, Guatemala, Japan, Jax Tranchida, Korea, LA, Los Angeles, Lost In Translation, Mexico City, Napa Valley, Semuc Champey, Silver Lake, Texas, The Grill Iron, Travel, wine
Nov 15th, 2015 |
By Kaye Holland
No trip to the City of Angels is complete if you don’t spot at least one celeb. Kaye Holland reveals how you can up the odds…
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Bar Marmont, Beverly Hills, Brentwood, California, Hollywood, House of Blues, Kardashians, LA, LA LIve, Los Angeles, Malibu, Mondrian Hotel, Santa Monica, SoulCycle, South Park, Staples Center, The Chris McMillan salon, The Grove, Troubadour, Union Station, Viper Room, Walk of Fame, Westwood Village
Aug 26th, 2015 |
By Kaye Holland
Travel author Sarah Alderson- who confesses to missing coconuts and sunshine – shares her travel highs and lows with Just About Travel readers
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Tags: Airbnb, Alaska, Bali, Barcelona, Basque Country, Borough Market, Can We Live Here?, Colorado, Devon, England, France, Goa, Indonesia, LA, London, Mexico, Ohio, Sante Fe, Sarah Alderson, St Thomas Hospital, The Old Operating Theatre Museum, UK
Jul 21st, 2015 |
By Kaye Holland
Kaye’s itchy feet have taken her to Asheville. Read the latest instalment of her ‘Notes from a traveller’ series, only on Just About Travel
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: America, Anderson Cooper, Asheville, Austin, Blue Ridge Parkway, Ernest Hemingway, Florida, Genius, George Vanderbilt, Jude Law, LA, Look Homeward Angel, Nashville, New York, North Carolina, Obama, Texas, The Biltmore, Thomas Wolfe, Travel
Jun 27th, 2015 |
By Kaye Holland
Here Jacki Ueng – a travel blogger who focuses on solo women travelling, backpacking off the beaten path with special interests in developing countries – shares her travel highs and lows with Just About Travel readers
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Tags: America, Argentina, Burma, Europe, France, Georgia, hiking, Hollywood, Israel, LA, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Malibu, Manhattan Beach, Mexico, Middle East, Myanmar, Paris, Savannah, Travel, Vancouver, Whistler
Jun 22nd, 2015 |
By Kaye Holland
Kaye’s itchy feet have taken her to Hawaii. Read the latest instalment of her ‘Notes from a traveller series’, only on Just About Travel
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Tags: aloha, America, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, California, City of Angels, Hawaii, Hawaiians, Hollywood, Honolulu, Iolani Palace, islands, LA, Mai Tai, Oahu, Pearl Harbor, UK, USA, Waikiki, WW11
Jun 12th, 2015 |
By Kaye Holland
Kaye’s itchy feet have taken her to LA. Read the latest instalment of her ‘Notes from a traveller series’, only on Just About Travel
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: aloha, America, Baywatch, California, CBS, City of Angels, Colin Wright, Disney, Hawaii, Hollywood, James Corden, Joshua Fields Millburn, LA, La la land, Los Angeles, Matt Sumell, South America, The Grove, The Last Bookstore, The Late Late Show, The Minimalists, Travel
May 27th, 2015 |
By Kaye Holland
Kaye’s itchy feet have taken her to Colombia. Read the latest instalment of her ‘Notes from a traveller series’, only on Just About Travel
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Tags: Airbnb, Cartagena, coffee, Colombia, Essex, Gabriel García Márquez, LA, Los Angeles, Medellin, plantations, Salento, South America, switzerland, Valle de Cocora, Watford, Zone Cafeteria
Aug 1st, 2014 |
By Kaye Holland
Just About Travel tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month it’s good news for Turkey and anyone planning a trip to the Big Apple but Oxford Street should be avoided
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Big Apple, Bursa, Central Park, Doha, Fifth Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Heathrow Airport, Heathrow Airport Terminal 2, International Currency Exchange, Istanbul, LA, Luton, Luton Airport, Macau, New York, Ottoman Empire, Oxford Street, Packing, Pergamon, Qatar, Raffles, Statue of Liberty, suitcases, The Empire State Building, Tiffany’s, Times Square, Transformers, Travel, travelling, Turkey, UNESCO, World Heritage
Jul 4th, 2014 |
By Kaye Holland
Why Americans shouldn’t be allowed to own guns
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: America, Big Apple, CNN, cowboys, gun control, gun laws, guns, LA, Las Vegas, Lone State, New England, Obama, Piers Morgan, President Obama, Route 66, Santa Monica, shootings, States, Texas, UK, violence
Jul 2nd, 2014 |
By Kaye Holland
The de facto capital of North Texas is a city worth stopping in rather than just using as a landing base. Kaye Holland discovers the real deal Dallas: designer shopping, top notch dining and chic bars
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: America, AT&T Stadium, Bishop Arts District, Bread Winners, Dallas, Dallas Cowboys, Dealey Plaza and the Grassy Knoll, Highland Park Village, JFK, JFK Memorial, JR, LA, Lee Harvey Oswald, Lone State, Los Angeles, McKinney Avenue, Miss Ellie, Neiman Marcus, NFL, North Texas, NorthPark Center, Philip Johnson, South Dallas, Southfork Ranch, Tei-An, Texas
Apr 30th, 2014 |
By Kaye Holland
Spending the summer – or part of it – in LA? Here’s four places where you can make like a local and join the Angelenos for a daily juice fix…
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Angelenos, California, City of Angels, juice, LA, Los Feliz, San Fernando
Apr 27th, 2014 |
By Kaye Holland
If you think LA is about fitness and fashion, think again. The city of Angels has a burgeoning art scene that’s sure to delight travellers who crave more from California than crowded shopping malls, sand, surf and sea. Here’s the skinny on the three streets that are collectively helping transform the LA art scene…
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Art, California, Culver City, fashion, Gallery Row, Highland Avenue, LA, Perry Rubenstein, Santa Monica
Sep 3rd, 2013 |
By Kaye Holland
Superb wine, friendly locals and a countryside paved with natural beauty, Temecula has charm by the bucketload says Kaye Holland
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: California, Callaway Vineyard and Winery, Ely Reeves Callaway, French Laundry, LA, Napa, Pechanga, San Diego, Temecula Old Town, Temecula Olive Oil Company, Temecula Valley, The Gambling Cowboy
Jul 24th, 2013 |
By The Editor
Palm Springs – the hangout of the Rat Pack back in the 60s and 70s – has got its grove back. Kaye Holland has the low down on the decadent desert oasis that’s currently celebrating its 75th anniversary
Posted in Travel destinations, Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Ace Hotel, Bob Hope Classic, California, Clark Gable, Coachella, Dean Martin, Desert Hills Premium Outlets, Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Hollywood, Jose Garces, Joshua Tree National Park., LA, Liberace, Marilyn Monroe, Miami Vice, Ocean's Eleven, Palm Springs, Rat Pack, Saguro Palm Springs, Sammy Davis Jnr, San Jacinto, The Palm Springs International Film Festival, The Seven Year Itch., Tinto, Uptown Design district, USA
Jul 8th, 2013 |
By Kaye Holland
The car is no longer king in LA. With over 120 miles of new bike ways created within the city of Los Angeles in the last two years, increased Metro transit options and the expanded frequency and reach of CicLAvia—the nation’s largest open streets event—the city is putting the brakes on its car-centric roots
Posted in Travel destinations, Travel news, Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Bunker Hill, LA, LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA, Walt Disney Concert Hall
Jul 6th, 2013 |
By Kaye Holland
Experience the Allure of the American Riviera
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: American Rivera, California, Channel Islands National Park, LA, Santa Barbara, USA
Jul 2nd, 2013 |
By Kaye Holland
Kaye loves London, so why did she leave? Read the sixth part of her story exclusively on CD-Traveller
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Beijing, Britain, China, Ely, Facebook, forbidden city, Jinshan Park, LA, London, Mandarin, New York, Olympic Games, Shanghai, The Temple of Heaven
Feb 14th, 2013 |
By The Editor
Air New Zealand has got that loving feeling for Valentine’s Day with the UK’s first ever live dating show to be held at London Heathrow today
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Air New Zealand, Claudia Winkleman, LA, London Heathrow, Los Angeles, Valentine's Day
Dec 16th, 2012 |
By The Editor
The CD-Traveller team share their favourite 2012 travel experiences and look at the top spots for 2013
Posted in Travel destinations, Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Adrian Lawes, America, Anna Maria Espsater, Black Sea, Canada, Croatia, Georgia, Grenada, Hollywood, Kaye Holland, LA, London, Montreal, Patricia Cleveland Peck, South Korea, Sweden, The Pembrokeshire coastline path, The Shard
Dec 2nd, 2012 |
By Kaye Holland
A new poll by YouGov reveals that, despite 2012 being a year like no other, 52 per cent of Londoners would rather live in another part of Britain
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on Cheap isn’t always best
Tags: Cornwall, East Anglia, Holland Park, LA, Leeds, Little Thetford, Liverpool, London, London Eye, Newcastle, Salford, Spitalfields, Stoke, The Thames
Dec 1st, 2012 |
By The Editor
CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month Skegness is making waves, but could the era of the stay-cation be over?
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: America, BBC, Britain, China, Cotswolds, easyjet, LA, Las Vegas, Manchester, Moscow, Pasadena, pilots, Skegness, Southsea, staycations
Jul 9th, 2012 |
By The Editor
Looking to escape rainy Britain, this summer? Consider California which has just kicked off its ‘summer of fun’
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: California, Cirque du Soleil, CityPass, Disney, Golden state, Hollywood, LA, Michael Bay, Oscars, San Diego, SeaWorld, Transformers: The Ride 3D, Universal Studios, USA
Jul 5th, 2012 |
By The Editor
“Nobody walks in LA”. So sang the 8os band, Missing Persons. That might have been true once, but today there’s no need to fight traffic in Los Angeles owing to Metro’s new 7-Day Pass
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Hollywood, LA, Missing Persons, Pasedena