Articles Written by:    CHARLES STARMER-SMITH     

How to join the mile high club

So news this week that two randy Russians performed a live sex act in front of a packed BA flight from Brazil to London is a tad shocking. But the mile-high club is no longer the exclusive “nudge-nudge, wink-wink” club (whose members recount tales of ...

From CHARLES STARMER-SMITH, The Telegraph,  14 Jan 2008
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Willy Wonka would be proud...

Charles Starmer-Smith joined the Daily Telegraph in 2001. After an initial spell on sport, he joined the travel desk in 2003. He is Travel News Editor and a contributing editor for Ultratravel magazine. He regularly writes features for the travel ...

From CHARLES STARMER-SMITH, The Telegraph,  8 Jan 2008

Save the world with liposuction

Mention the word green and people’s eyes always seem to glaze over. Until now. New Zealander, Pete Bethune, has caused jaws to hit floors as he takes his Earthrace boat – dubbed the green machine - on a world tour ahead of his record-breaking attempt ...

From CHARLES STARMER-SMITH, The Telegraph,  19 Dec 2007

The world's worst flights

Charles Starmer-Smith joined the Daily Telegraph in 2001. After an initial spell on sport, he joined the travel desk in 2003. He is Travel News Editor and a contributing editor for Ultratravel magazine. He regularly writes features for the travel ...

From CHARLES STARMER-SMITH, The Telegraph,  13 Dec 2007

Olympic urinating

Charles Starmer-Smith joined the Daily Telegraph in 2001. After an initial spell on sport, he joined the travel desk in 2003. He is Travel News Editor and a contributing editor for Ultratravel magazine. He regularly writes features for the travel ...

From CHARLES STARMER-SMITH, The Telegraph,  12 Dec 2007

Fingerprinting frenzy in the US

Charles Starmer-Smith joined the Daily Telegraph in 2001. After an initial spell on sport, he joined the travel desk in 2003. He is Travel News Editor and a contributing editor for Ultratravel magazine. He regularly writes features for the travel ...

From CHARLES STARMER-SMITH, The Telegraph,  6 Dec 2007

Crustacean confiscations...

Charles Starmer-Smith joined the Daily Telegraph in 2001. After an initial spell on sport, he joined the travel desk in 2003. He is Travel News Editor and a contributing editor for Ultratravel magazine. He regularly writes features for the travel ...

From CHARLES STARMER-SMITH, The Telegraph,  22 Nov 2007

Should we tax fat fliers?

First Australian health experts suggest that fat passengers should pay more to fly, then New Zealand authorities ban a British woman from entering the country because she was too heavy. Outrageous, I thought, until I found myself smeared against the ...

From CHARLES STARMER-SMITH, The Telegraph,  20 Nov 2007

Who let the dogs in?

The plane had just about reached cruising altitude when the passenger started belting out his favourite karaoke numbers. You can’t blame the cabin crew on this Virgin Atlantic flight from Chicago to London for assuming he was drunk. It was only when ...

From CHARLES STARMER-SMITH, The Telegraph,  12 Nov 2007
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Ass of the week...

First we are told to stop flushing at 30,000 ft in China, then I hear donkeys are replacing rubbish trucks in Sicily and now a chocolate-powered truck is driving from here to Mali, all in the name of saving our planet. All quite amusing, but doesn’t in ...

From CHARLES STARMER-SMITH, The Telegraph,  8 Nov 2007

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