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Yesterday the National Museum in Baghdad re-opened after six years of closure. After the invasion in 2003, there were exaggerated reports of the museum being ransacked whilst US troops were nearby. It appears 15,000 artifacts out of hundreds of thousands were removed, some, it is thought, as a result of organised crime. Items turned [...]
Adrian explores Belfast in a year when the city majors on its links with the ill-fated Titanic.
Dundee is transforming its waterfront, to draw visitors in. Adrian looks at what there is for the short break tripper
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“The CAA is the UK’s independent specialist aviation regulator. Its activities include economic regulation, airspace policy, safety regulation and consumer protection.”
When Visit Stoke, the tourism body for the city sent us a press release calling Stoke the ceramics capital wonder of the world, the first thought was how they had one this award. Had ceramicists across the world nominated the town? Had collectors of fine china voted in huge numbers so that other centres around the world were defeated? No, it was none of these. They had decided to christen themselves with the title. The first thought was this was a tad arrogant. The second was more thoughtful. Stoke has an extraordinary good case to the title.
We may be living in the worst economic crisis since the 1920s but that hasn’t stopped 4.25 million Brits from packing their bags and heading overseas this Christmas, with the peak travel days predicted to be today and tomorrow (Dec 22 and 23).
The Ulster Museum in Belfast has been announced as the winner of the £100,000 Art Fund Prize for 2010. You might remember from previous CD-Traveller stories that the Ulster has been in the lead position as voted for by you for the last few weeks. The judges picked the winner although the public voted by a small margin for for the Ashmolean in Oxford over the Ulster. But through the weeks of voting it had been the Ulster in the lead.
The voting for the award raises a few issues. If it is open to a vote by the public, should the winner of the public vote be overturned by the judges?
Looking for somewhere stylish to stay in Italy? Boutique travel experts Mr & Mrs Smith have recently published their first Italy guidebook, and to celebrate CD-Traveller has teamed up with them to reveal three special stays. Today: Follonico
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