Barcelona: where history and culture meets the Nou

Robin Nowacki combines culture and cuisine with football on a visit to Barcelona – the capital of the Catalonian region of Spain

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

Citizens Advice

From the website:

“The Adviceguide website is the main public information service of Citizens Advice, providing people with round-the-clock access to CAB information on their rights – including benefits, housing and employment, and on debt, consumer and legal issues.”

Tianjin uncovered

Read CD Traveller’s feature on the Tianjin Wine and Food Festival and decided to travel to Tianjin? Congratulations! Only now that you have booked your flight, you’re wondering exactly where to go and what to do. Fret not as CD Traveller had done the legwork for you. Follow our itineraries – which have been tailored according to taste and time – and you can suss out the best of the city in no time.

What’s hot: September 2012

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month Birmingham has been given a boost but British cuisine hasn’t fared so well

Bring back the blue plaque

English Heritage’s blue plaque programme, which was launched by the Royal Society of Arts in 1866 and commemorate landmarks associated with historical figures and events, is being suspended – just three years away from the 150th anniversary of the scheme

64 per cent of UK dogs to hit the road this summer

Sadly floods and poor weather have become the hallmark of a UK summer and 2012 is proving to be no exception with the wettest June on record in much of the country. Still this is not enough to put the majority of dog owners off a domestic break