Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email “I am proud to present the Integrated Rail Plan.” So wrote Boris Johnson at the start of a document that heralded a bright future for travellers by train in the Midlands and north of England. The last prime minister but two …
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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email If you’re looking for a short-haul European escape for winter sun in Greece, a family ski trip in France or a cool city break in Spain, the hotel you choose to book is, of course, as much a part of the …
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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Ryanair says it won’t cancel any flights despite a cap on arrivals and departures at Gatwick airport, and has demanded the chief executive of air traffic control provider Nats “step down” over staff shortages. Europe’s biggest budget carrier has a relatively …
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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email For those who weren’t born sliding down the slopes, come November when the ski season kicks off, rumours of legendary aprés-ski, panoramic mountain lunches and steamy spas might have you warming up to the idea of reaching new altitudes on a …
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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email A French airport blasted by Ryanair for an “abysmal” error that saw a passenger in a wheelchair left behind at the terminal has hit back at what it has branded “false and defamatory claims”. Last week, the low-cost carrier blamed Bordeaux …
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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email A city break hits different in winter. Parks packed with sweat-drenched tourists are swapped for ethereal, fairy light-strewn streets; frosty cocktails for warming, mulled drinks. Outside the peak Christmas market period – in itself a magical time to see plenty of …
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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Muscling through foliage so thick it feels like I’m discovering a new planet, my foot slips. Tangled roots and rain-slicked nettles feel designed to trip you up – but as quickly as I falter, porter Bernard’s hand is there to haul …
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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email A man has blamed his wife for a mishap that stopped him getting through airport security and could result in a hefty $15,000 (£12,317) fine. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, in the US state of …
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Power tower: easyJet Airbus passes Gatwick airport control tower (Nats) Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email A total of 42 easyJet flights have been cancelled as an outbreak of Covid was blamed for the third air-traffic control slowdown at London Gatwick so far this month. Staff sickness …
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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email What was I feeling, exactly? I have been “pre-grieving” – if that is even a thing – for a year now, knowing that if I didn’t deal with what was about to happen, I would sink… so I decided we would …
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