Top tips for travel

LONELY PLANET'S Best Ever Travel Tips comprises 50 trade secrets from experts that will help holidaymakers to have better, safer, and cheaper trips. 

The book, priced at £4.99, is an illustrated guide to everything from finding the best value deals to getting upgrades.

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10 things you’ve always wanted to know about Bermuda, but …

... were too idle to ask …

1. Founded in 1612, St. George Town – a UNESCO World Heritage site – is the oldest inhabited English town in the Americas.

 2. There are no neon signs

3. Visitors are not permitted to hire cars

4. Bermuda has more golf courses per square mile than any other nation

5. Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Jack Kennedy, and Winston Churchill, have played golf there

6. The ocean around Bermuda are great for snorkelers; water is clear down to 150ft

7. There are 100 tennis courts on the island

8. Temperatures average 80F from April to October and 70F from November to March.

9. The island is in the North Atlantic ocean, not the Caribbean

10. Bermuda is 21 square miles, surrounded by 200 square-miles of coral reef

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Street drinking and pub crawls could be banned ....

.... in Megaluf crackdown on yobs

A CRACKDOWN on antisocial behaviour in Magaluf, Majorca, has been agreed by the Balearic Islands government, the local council and hoteliers.

Among the measures implemented are new regulations outlawing antisocial behaviour, the introduction of combined international police patrols, which will include agents of the British police, and a new administrative status for Magaluf as mature tourist destination.

The move follows incidents of antisocial behaviour in the summer in Magaluf.

Proposed measures include:

· A social regulation bylaw will be passed forbidding the consumption of alcohol in the streets, and other antisocial behaviour. This might include a ban on pub crawls

· Police patrolling, inspections and administrative sanctions will be increased

· The increased presence of the Spanish Civil Guard

· International combined police patrols, which will include British agents, will be increased

· Tourist accommodation companies will be given six months to present modernization plan to adapt hotels and apartments to the new rating specifications

The UK Foreign Office has backed these initiatives through Gillian Brion, British vice consul for the Balearic Islands.

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Ryanair launches Channel-hop flights

RYANAIR is to start flights from London Stansted to Deauville, Normandy, in April this year.

The twice-weekly service will run from April to October, and single fares start at £18.99 including taxes and charges.

www.normandy-tourism.org

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Travel facts ...

& holiday quotes..

Too much work, and no vacation,
Deserves at least a small libation.
So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses,
Work's the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde


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Go on … treat yourself!

THE normal rental rate for the beach-front Villa Gajah Putih on Bali is a mere US$4,000 (£2,570) … that’s for one, whole night. 

The very good news for zillionaires is that it’s being cut to a paltry $2,000 stays until March 31. 

Gosh, what a bargain!

For this you get seven air-conditioned bedrooms, “unique” ironwood floors, views of the ocean or lush gardens, en-suite bathrooms of floor-to-wall marble, a tennis court, and a swimming pool.

Did I mention the more than 20 “discreet staff” including a personal butler from 7am until 10pm daily, and a personal chef?

For more information on availability and special rates, contact - reservations@semararesorts.com

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It’s Jane’s year … again!

JANE AUSTEN fans are in for another anniversary treat in 2015. 

After the Pride and Prejudice bicentennial anniversary in 2013, comes that of Emma, published in December 1815.

Many Austen fans in Britain and around the world might be interested in visiting the house – Chawton – near Alton in Hampshire, in which she spent the last eight years of her life, and in which she Emma, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion.



Now called the Jane Austen’s House Museum, it runs events throughout the year.

In Bath, Somerset, the city’s 2015 Jane Austen Festival runs from September 11 to September 25. Austen lived in the city between 1801 and 1805.

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