Top 10 Valentine’s breaks
By: The Editor | February 3, 2012 – 6:27 am | No Comment

Boutique hotel experts Mr & Mrs Smith have sifted through the schmaltz to find Valentine’s packages that will really set hearts aflutter (and won’t involve soggy petals clogging the plughole). Here are 10 hot properties that offer something a little bit different…

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Mini break of the month: Cool Cardiff
By: The Editor | November 12, 2009 – 2:52 pm | No Comment
Mini break of the month: Cool Cardiff

What to see and do in Cardiff

Greece 5000 Years Old
By: The Editor | November 12, 2009 – 9:57 am | No Comment
Greece 5000 Years Old

Another country to major on its past is Greece as typified by the slogan (the headline above) that they will be running on the advertising early next year. But as with any successful tourist destination Greece blends the old with the modern. With a history and the remains of buildings going back millennia, part of everyday life is that almost wherever you try and put up a new building or a pipeline you hit Greece’s cultural past. (That would make Channel 4’s Time Team envious!)

Holidaying In Iraq
By: The Editor | November 12, 2009 – 9:21 am | No Comment
Holidaying In Iraq

This may not be your first choice of destinations and, we have to confess, that we have never covered Iraq before in CD-traveller (except about the loss of items from the Iraqi National Museum) but the time has come. What has sparked this interest is that Iraq exhibited for the first time in a decade at World Travel Market. Even the BBC picked this up and ran a story about it on “Breakfast” this morning.