Where the experts holiday: Rosa Park

Rosa Park – editor of quarterly food/travel magazine Cereal – on Cornwall, Copenhagen and the Californian coastal town of Santa Barbara

Letter from France: May 2013

Whether you’re a novice or seasoned traveller, France will steal your heart. Each month, Frederic – our French correspondent – gives us the low-down on what to see and do across the channel

Postcard from Beijing… no 10

Our China correspondent on the perils of being blonde in Beijing

Along the St Lawrence Seaway

ollowing the St Lawrence Seaway on the US side of the Great Lakes in Upper New York state is something that very few visitors from Britain and Ireland do.
Unless you’re a birdwatcher. But a leisurely drive down from Rooseveltown to Cape Vincent will give you a range of views and landscape that will be quite different from what many visitors see.
Why?

Bournemouth beats Ibiza

Which place boasts the better beach: Bournemouth or Ibiza? Somewhat surprisingly the Dorset resort has been beaten Ibiza – plus the likes of Benidorm and Gran Canaria – in a list of Europe’s top beaches!

New Tourism Museum: George Orwell’s Birthplace

Although George Orwell was born in India, he lived there only a year before he was brought back to England by his mother. The house where he was born in 1903 in Motihari in Bihar state has fallen into a sorry state but yesterday the Bihar government announced that it would restore the house as a tourist attraction. The project would be completed in just 3 months.

Why mention this when there are so many other things happening in tourism?

For one thing it surprised me that there is no Orwell Museum in the UK. (unless you know differently)

What’s hot: October 2012

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month business class passengers, Barcelona FC and boozy Brits are all generating media inches