What’s hot: February 2012

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month, Spain and skiing holidays both get a big thumbs up, but readers are advised to think twice before booking a bungee jump in Zambia or getting a tattoo in Bali

A day in… Dundee

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

HM Revenue and Customs

From the website:

“HMRC’s purpose is to make sure that the money is available to fund the UK’s public services. We also help families and individuals with targeted financial support”

Floriade 2012

From early April to October, the Netherlands will be hosting an event that takes place only once every ten years. Floriade is a gardener’s paradise

Competition: Adventure Travel Live Tickets

This time it is for Adventure Travel Live which starts at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London at 6pm next Friday and then continues over the weekend. This is the place to go if you fancy off the beaten track holidays, energy filled breaks like skydiving or white water rafting. Or just plain old fashioned getting away from it all holidays with a bit of polar exploration or gap year experience. It isn’t just for the singles and young; far from it. There will be family holiday ideas as well as well as for those who are young-at-heart.
To win one of the ten pairs all you have to do is the usual thing. Send an e-mail to emily@escapeevents.com and put Adventure Travel Live in the subject line.

Ryanair & Jonathan Ross

When you see a press report about Ryanair, it usually makes good reading. Their Chief Executive, Michael O’Leary, is not known for bland language; some is more colourful than Gordon Ramsay’s so the announcement of his third quarter accounts is uasually not as boring as some that travel companies issue. Ryanair calls for the removal [...]

A Taste of the Far East

Celebrity chef Rick Stein has explored the culinary delights of Britain and France but for his latest TV ‘food odyssey’ the much loved cookery writer and chef travelled further afield – to the Far East.

On arrival in Asia, Stein steered clear of the beaten track and tourist hot-spots; instead he sampled from local chefs, family-run restaurants and street vendors and roamed through the markets of Phnom Penh and the kitchens of Kampot in search of recipes to spirit the rest of us to the Orient.