A day in… Belfast

Adrian explores Belfast in a year when the city majors on its links with the ill-fated Titanic.

A day in… Dundee

Dundee is transforming its waterfront, to draw visitors in. Adrian looks at what there is for the short break tripper

Civil Aviation Authority

From the website:

“The CAA is the UK’s independent specialist aviation regulator. Its activities include economic regulation, airspace policy, safety regulation and consumer protection.”

Shop like a Sheikh

Dubai’s annual winter shopping festival starts next month and CD Traveller has the low-down on where you can shop like a sheikh in the kingdom of bling

Find your Bag? Follow the Face

Lost luggage is a perennial problem and one suggestion to reduce the numbers lost has come from a Belgian based company called Bagage-Identification. The idea is that a small self-adhesive pouch is attached to your baggage, hold or cabin, and this contains your photograph. No photo, no bag allowed into the system goes the mantra of the company. But how big is the scale of lost luggage?

FlyGlobespan Collapse Will Hit Scottish Holidaymakers

Regular readers can stop reading right now if they don’t want to hear me talk again about providing an adequate safety net for passengers outside the ATOL bonding scheme.

As you probably all know by now, those passengers who bought a package holiday under the Globespan name are probably protected under the ATOL system. Those of you who bought just a flight with a credit card (not a debit card)and paid more than £100 may be able to claim a refund from the credit card providers. The rest of you, I’m afraid, will probably be out of pocket. And for those of you who are covered then you still have the hassle and probable expense of rebooking with another carrier if there is availability. To check your position, see www.caa.co.uk/default.aspx?catid=1985&pagetype=90.

The collapse of the Globespan group will hit Scotland particularly badly.

Ticket to ride: part 2

With the rest of the world to explore, it’s easy to overlook what’s on your doorstep – Blighty! In the second part of our British cities series, we open our address books in Bristol, Cambridge and Southend