We have the Hay-on-Wye, the Cheltenham and, at present, the literary side of the Edinburgh Festival but Heathrow? I exaggerate slightly because there is no festival but they do have a writer in residence. For this week only, as the old cinema posters used to say, Alain de Botton will be at Heathrow writing a book. This book will supposedly be called A Week at the Airport so it does seem apt.

We know there are all sorts of traveller. There are those who plan ahead and those who act impulsively; those that like lazy sun filled days and those who must forever active. Now an American business guru, Robert Bylett, who operates a business advisory company called Happy Business, has given advice to companies who have what he calls toxic customers.

Just capital
London comes alive in the summer; there is so much to see and do. However if you’re lacking the imagination to find something to keep you entertained, fret no longer. The CD Traveller team has come up with some suggestions to see you through the summer months…
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I’m confused.

How big is London? I thought that it was a city astride the River Thames. When London Airport used to be at Croydon, it was easy; there was one airport.

It seems that the troubles in Sri Lanka are over so it won’t be before long that tourism steps up as well. Here is a country that promotes itself widely at travel trade shows and supports advertising its appeal but the new stories must have contributed to the lack of people going there.

Images are used to sell all sorts of things. Celebrities are used to promote items that you seriously wonder if they have ever tried. You can see a castle promoting California but at least that castle (the Hearst old home) is genuinely to be found there.
Not so with the case of Durdle Door.

If I am forced to carry hold luggage (which I prefer never to do unless my wife is with me and even she is getting better at just having carry on luggage) its because I am carrying presents for people at Christmas or paperwork. But not everything carried is so mundane.

There was a lot of comment earlier that this year that a lot of people would stay at home and have day trips.
This seems to be happening so certain places seem to be doing well as we visit them. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that historic houses on the eastern side of the country are doing well and now there is evidence that two other attractions are doing well.

Let me clear. I’m not a Twitter fan. I can’t see the value of telling people a couple of times a day that I am flossing my teeth in a lift or planning to visit an orphanage in deepest Mongolia. It seems to me that there are better things to do in life. Like living [...]

Brazil isn’t one of the countries that you might quickly think of if you were asked to name tourist destinations for the British. But it is becoming more popular and, last year, 181,000 people holidayed there from the UK. Now that may not be many in the grand scheme of things but according to the [...]