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Pack your tent and head for the countryside this Easter – camping has become cool
Cast aside any preconceptions of camping being the preserve of pensioners and hippies for in recent years this type of holiday has undergone a renaissance and shaken off its boy scouts and budget holiday image. Thanks, in part, to celebrity campers such as Sienna Miller, Jodie Kidd, Kate Moss, Jamie Oliver et al camping is now cool and it’s hip to be seen erecting a tent.
Today, in Wakefield, a new tourist attraction opens. It’s called a gallery for the visual arts but to most of us it will probably be thought of as a sculpture gallery since it will house works by some of the most well-known and influential modern sculptors. Named after locally born and bred sculptor, Barbara Hepworth it will contain 44 of her own works in addition to works by another local, Henry Moore and Jacob Epstein. But there isn’t only sculpture. Contemporary art is also on display from the Wakefield Collection.
Last month Garuda, the Indonesian flag carrier, started a service on its Japanese routes to Indonesia. It must have been successful because from 2nd June it will be introduced onto their Amsterdam-Dubai-Djakarta flights. And what is this successful service?
It’s processing your travel documents on board the flight so that you don’t have to queue at immigration desks when you arrive.
This is the one device that could endear me to an airline for life.
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