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• Travel companies need to think more local. Many of you will know that my main project these days is a local guide called My Life in Leeds, and tonight I thought I would do some research and check out a few travel websites to…

  15/08/10 03:21, Travel Rants Blog

• Kiss flights collapses and goes bust. I understand that Kiss flights, who specialise in cheap flights to Greece, Egypt, Turkey and the Canaries and have ceased trading. Kiss flights were ATOL so, arrangements are being…

  17/08/10 20:35, Travel Rants Blog

• British holidays are not that bad. The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of travelling in the UK, compared with the hassle of taking a holiday abroad. I spent most of this week on the Yorkshire coast, …

  20/08/10 19:45, Travel Rants Blog

• Still crazy after all these years (except this time they are loaded). It is one of life's ultimate ironies. A book about one woman's spiritual quest to find herself has spawned a multimillion-pound film franchise and sparked a fresh stampede for the…

  22/08/10 01:00, The Independent - Travel RSS Feed

• Yurtel: They even put eye masks on the pillows here. It was during a protracted exchange of emails ensuring the immediate and continual availability of caffeine at the Big Chill festival that it first dawned on me how far Yurtel is …

  22/08/10 01:00, The Independent - Travel RSS Feed

• Kate Simon: Free Wi-Fi is the way to a traveller's heart. Good news for passengers on East Midlands Trains. The rail company is the latest to offer Wi-Fi on board its services to London. From 5 September, Wi-Fi will be piloted on all East…

  22/08/10 01:00, The Independent - Travel RSS Feed

• Ain't no city like New Orleans. When trombonist Craig Klein came back to his house a few days after the flood waters from Hurricane Katrina tore though New Orleans on 29 August 2005, he found, like thousands of…

  22/08/10 01:00, The Independent - Travel RSS Feed

• Cool design meets old-style grandeur in Stockholm. Stockholm is experiencing a hotel boom which will see 1,000 new rooms opening in the city this year. The quirky Lydmar hotel was quick to grab headlines with its Philippe Starck-style…

  22/08/10 01:00, The Independent - Travel RSS Feed

• About Britain: From real ale to fine art, get out and about on these new trails. Self-guided trails are being launched almost every week across the UK. Here are some of the latest ones.

  22/08/10 01:00, The Independent - Travel RSS Feed

• Deals of the week. Get 15 per cent off in Sardinia

  22/08/10 01:00, The Independent - Travel RSS Feed

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