The English seaside

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

Bon Bini! Curacao has it all in one very small island

Irene Thomas found Curacao the most successfully diverse country she has ever visited – and one of the most beautiful as well

Trading Standards

From the website:

“The Trading Standards Institute is a not-for-profit professional body formed in 1881. We have members in the public and private sectors in the UK and abroad.

TSI encourages honest enterprise and business and helps safeguard the economic, environmental, health and social well-being of consumers.”

The Historic Battlefields of Scotland

Last March created an inventory of what it considers to be the most important battlefield sites in the country. Seventeen were added then. Now the second tranche is being considered.
You might be tempted to say, so what? We know about the battles, why have an inventory? Isn’t this an academic thing so it’s not going to affect me?

2011 a banner year for San Francisco

San Francisco welcomed close to 2.9 million overseas visitors in 2011- an increase of nearly 10 percent over 2010

Travelling to the US soon?

Anyone travelling to the US in the next two months should be aware that there are two different I-94 forms in existence and you need to complete the “right” one.The I-94 form is a green form that all UK and Irish citizens (and all EU non visa holders) who do not have a visa need [...]

What’s hot: March 2011

CD Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month the future looks red hot for Virgin’s cabin crew but gap years could be on their last leg…