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The world’s weirdest spa

There are food fads. And there are spa fads. Rarely, thankfully, have these two come together. Delicious, but would you bath in it? The sake spa is a huge bath filled with, yes, real Japanese sake, which they claim is good for your skin. Then there’s ...

From FRANCISCA KELLETT, The Telegraph,  18 Jun 2008

Mud, spiders and The Great Outdoors

A strange new trend has crept up unawares, like a spider hiding in a fold of canvas, ready to scuttle up your arm when you least expect it. It is a trend of fields and mud and declarations of a love for The Great Outdoors. It is a trend which I am ...

From FRANCISCA KELLETT, The Telegraph,  10 Jun 2008

A Brit abroad? I’d prefer an Italian.

Newsflash: women want to sleep with Italian men. In Italy, preferably. Who would want to pull a fellow Brit abroad? According to new research, Italians are the most attractive when it comes to us dreaming of passionate holiday flings. Men, for once, ...

From FRANCISCA KELLETT, The Telegraph,  29 May 2008

Hotels don't care

What is the point of those signs in hotel bathrooms? Those polite little notices which tell you how concerned the hotel is about the environment, and how you can help save the world by re-using your towels. Those little signs that make you think “Aaaah. ...

From FRANCISCA KELLETT, The Telegraph,  23 May 2008

Why the fuss about US immigration?

I was in New York last week, arriving, for the first time in my life, on a British passport. I’m a secret Yank, you see. I have an American passport, which means (obviously) that I usually travel to the States like I’m a local. And I’ve blogged in the ...

From FRANCISCA KELLETT, The Telegraph,  15 May 2008

Do travel writers go to hell?

It’s a question asked by Thomas Kohnstamm, the ex-guidebook writer who claimed yesterday that he made up large sections of the Lonely Planet books he was updating. His claims are impressive, if slightly disturbing – particularly to someone who has ...

From FRANCISCA KELLETT, The Telegraph,  14 Apr 2008

On holiday with the Olympic flame

Thank you to Gridskipper for suggesting an entirely new form of holiday: the protest holiday. Just think - this could be in your holiday album So, if you fancy a break and need an excuse, why not join said fun in Tanzania, Australia, Oman or Thailand? ...

From FRANCISCA KELLETT, The Telegraph,  9 Apr 2008
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Wee Willie Walsh

You can just imagine the decision making process yesterday. All these bags will be sent to Milan for sorting Airport bigwig: “Oh no! We have 20,000 stranded bags in our terminal – whatever shall we do?” Airport minion: “Let’s just cart them to Milan ...

From FRANCISCA KELLETT, The Telegraph,  2 Apr 2008
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Launching a new terminal, British style

Am I alone in feeling a vague sense of Schadenfreude at the chaos in Terminal 5 today? We all expected a certain degree of teething trouble when the new terminal opened. But stories flooding out of T5 read like something from a Benny Hill ...

From FRANCISCA KELLETT, The Telegraph,  27 Mar 2008
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Is Birmingham the new Amsterdam?

An interesting campaign has been brought to my attention. It’s a sort of fly-the-flag, we’re-better-than-them tourism campaign – the kind of thing you might see on the pages of our rather more downmarket rivals. Can Birmingham really rival the beauty ...

From FRANCISCA KELLETT, The Telegraph,  19 Mar 2008

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