Totally Tomato at West Dean Gardens
01243 818210 www.westdean.org.uk
Make the most of your hard-earned cash with Stephen Baker’s 25 top holiday moneysaving tips
Heading to China in the year of the Dragon? Seek out Shangdong – steeped as it is in myth and supernatural allure
From the website:
“The National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC) promotes standards in travel medicine, providing travel health information for health professionals and the public.
NaTHNaC is funded by the Health Protection Agency.”
Just opened is a new experience in the North West, WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre in Burscough near Ormskirk: – a canoe safari. In June 2010, WWT Martin Mere started work to create 2.4 hectares of new reed bed, wet woodland and wet grassland (swamp) to offer families and adults a safe and fun way to explore wetlands and its rich biodiversity in a canoe.
Roses rule on Valentine’s Day. Acknowledged as the universal symbol of love, they account for 75 percent of the arrangements sold in local flower shops throughout February.
In just under a fortnight, the first meeting will be held between Visit Britain, the Highways Agency and the Department of Culture and Oddities to discuss brown signs, those signs that guide us to tourist sites and destinations.
Why?
Because the system is in a mess.
Still one of the most popular destinations for visitors from our countries, there are certain sites that appear on almost everyone’s must do lists such as seeing the Empire State Building, Time Square and the Statue of Liberty. Today, New York City is the most popular US destination for visitors. Last year nearly 46 million people came and this year they are hoping for 50 million. Already, in the first three months of the year, 10.6 million of us went there and that is during the winter period! With so many people visiting (there are 87,000 hotel rooms alone for those who stay overnight) and with restrictions on numbers visiting certain sites, you do need to plan what you might do.
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