**Part of the Bollington Walking Festival**Music with Maplewood – The band plays foot-tapping folk music with a French Canadian bias, on melodeon, fiddle, guitar, concertina and keyboard. Free Entry.,
Web: www.thepoachers.org
Robin Nowacki combines culture and cuisine with football on a visit to Barcelona – the capital of the Catalonian region of Spain
Photographer Peter Williams celebrates the peculiar eccentricities and quintessential charms – from helter-skelters to lighthouses, pirates, palmists and Punch and Judy – of this cherished and rapidly changing English landscape
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Against a backdrop of the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, then the economic downturn and finally the BP oil spillage in the Gulf, New Orleans has proudly announced that tourism is back to pre Katrina levels. Last year 8.3 million visitors went to the city, largely for pleasure since New Orleans has one of the bulkiest calendars in terms of festivals and events that you will ever come across.
Seemingly around faster than ever, half term is upon us and it usually throws up some surprises as to what destinations we prefer to go to.
But no this year, the choice appears to be pretty similar to those summer places we chose. Last summer you might remember we shunned Spain and many other places in the eurozone and opted for Egypt and Turkey in much greater numbers. Still Spain was the top destination. This time we have done the same. A Spanish destination is top but there have been lots more people heading away to Sharm El Sheikh and Dalaman.
The Travel Channel’s Sarah Cawood on staycations, the Scottish highlands and why she loves lying on a beach
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