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Going on 13 extreme day trips cured my fear of flying
Claire Howard's flying phobia was so severe she could barely set foot on a plane, but finally she set herself a challenge that changed her life.
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The harsh reality (and cost) of a last-minute weekend ski holiday
Does any complaint ring hollower than a teacher moaning about their annual leave? If so, break out your tiniest violin.
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The 10 best Alaskan cruises for 2025
Alaska is one of the world’s great cruising destinations, with superlative landscapes – notably the island-studded Inside Passage and sublime glaciers of Tracy Arm and beyond – as well as numerous opportunities to spot wildlife, from bears prowling distant shorelines to the seals, whales and dolphins often visible from the deck of your ship. Alaskan cruising also has a broad appeal, especially across age groups, with plenty for couples, solo travellers and families alike.
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These little-known Sri Lankan islands offer a dose of isolated luxury
When Martin Wickramasinghe wrote Madol Doova, his fabled 1947 children’s novel about two young boys who set up camp on Madol Doova island, he described a land “shaded over by dense growth of kadol trees”, where clumps of huge keran fern grow, the top of which look like “giant centipedes.”
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Europe’s most (and least) family-friendly country? Five writers have their say
There are numerous metrics by which our home continent can be assessed, weighed and measured; hard statistics which define its biggest country (Russia, obviously) and its smallest (Vatican City), its most densely populated (Monaco) and its least (Iceland, assuming you regard Greenland as part of Denmark – which, politically speaking, it is).
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A drunk man in a flamenco dress urinated on me during an easyJet flight from Barcelona
I feared the worst at the departure gate. It was 10am at Barcelona Airport on a Sunday in early summer and I was soberly sipping a café con leche and waiting to board for London Gatwick. “Oy Oy, Choffers!” a British thirty-something male bellowed as he prodded the backside of another man, who was wobbly on his feet and clasping a bottle of rosé.
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ETA to visit Britain: Everything you need to know about the UK’s new red tape for tourists
The passport as an instrument of state regulation dates from the French Revolution. But up until the First World War, people could still travel without one. Since then, nations have sought to control movement through visas, IDs, vaccination certificates and signed declarations swearing you were never a card-carrying Communist. The latter relates, of course, to the United States, which introduced the ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) in 2008 to allow visa-free travel, for a small
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