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

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

Consumer Council (Northern Ireland)

From the website:

“The Consumer Council represents consumers and gives them a voice. We ensure that the policy makers in Northern Ireland hear that voice and take it into account when they are making decisions that affect us all.”

Very intimate places

This is the name given to locally owned, boutique hotels on Antigua, that Caribbean island forever linked with the great cricketer, Viv Richards and whose other regular guests include Paul McCartney, Piers Morgan and Eric Clapton.

2011 Open Weekend

Starting on Saturday is the Open Weekend. This has been devised as a foreunner to the Olympic Games. Cities and towns throughout our countries have more than 1,200 events that have been devised to show you sporting and cultural achievements.

Britain needs to say ni hao to the Chinese

Earlier this week, it was revealed that David Cameron plans to make things easier for Indian businessmen and women (along with Indian students), to visit the UK by offering a same day visa service

Letter from France: October 2012

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