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Simon Calder: The Man Who Pays His Way

Published: 13 October 2007

Why it's currently a buyer's market to fly off to sunnier shores

Your chance to enter The Independent/Wanderlust Travel Photo of the Year competition

Published: 13 October 2007

If you have a thirst for travel, then enter our Photo of the Year competition, where you could win a trip 10,000 miles to the driest state on the driest continent: South Australia.

Something to declare: Africa by 'private jet'; flight delays; Marylebone and beyond

Published: 13 October 2007

Destination of the week: Africa by 'private jet'

Five Best: Hotels by waterfalls

Published: 13 October 2007

For dramatic views, try one of these watery wonders.

My Life In Travel: Gail Porter

Published: 13 October 2007

'I'd like to travel with Billy Connolly – he'd keep me laughing all the way'

Climate-change protesters block entrance to Manchester Airport

Published: 09 October 2007

Protesters blockaded the entrance to a departure lounge at Manchester Airport yesterday to highlight the apparent contradiction between planned growth in air travel and the Government's commitment to cutting carbon emissions.

Mutiny looms on jinxed bus to Sydney

Published: 09 October 2007

Maybe it was the threat of another sober night sipping bottles of Bavaria, Iran's famously alcohol-free lager. Or perhaps it was the mechanical breakdowns and hours of mind and bottom-numbing coach travel that threatened to bring the dream crashing down.

How to improve holidays with children

Published: 07 October 2007

Last weekend my kids reached a major developmental milestone: they made me a cup of tea. OK, so it entailed two breakages, a lot of soggy teabags and even some emergency first aid, but the lovely cuppa I got made it all worthwhile.

Simon Calder: The Man Who Pays His Way

Published: 06 October 2007

Listen here (and there): travelling can be such a sound experience

Something to declare: Belgium; the Med for less; Algeria

Published: 06 October 2007

Destination of the week: Belgium

My Life In Travel: Actor Simon Callow

Published: 06 October 2007

'I remember pebbles, Punch and Judy, and lovely postcards of the coastline'

Autumn sun: There's still time to hit the beach

Published: 30 September 2007

Where can you grab some sunshine without going long haul? Ian McCurrach offers ideas for a warm break closer to home

How to improve holidays with children

Published: 30 September 2007

Help save endangered animals. Wild!

Simon Calder: The Man Who Pays His Way

Published: 29 September 2007

Is it all a conspiracy? Why Heathrow is so awful

Something to declare: Maine; East Africa; Dover-Calais

Published: 29 September 2007

Destination of the week: Maine

Season's greetings: Get ready for winter on the slopes

Published: 29 September 2007

As the French resort of Tignes opens for its 2007-8 season, Stephen Wood examines how ski operators are adapting to the changing climate – and to the changing demands of winter holidaymakers

My Life In Travel: Griff Rhys Jones

Published: 29 September 2007

'I hate tourism – if I arrive at a place organised for tourists I'll turn around'

The very rough guide: the rudest travel book ever written

Published: 28 September 2007

In the mid-19th century, one Mrs Favell Mortimer set forth to write a definitive travel guide to the world. There was just one problem: she had never set foot outside her native Shropshire. This was the result...

Scottish ski advert leads to trouble on the pistes

Published: 24 September 2007

The Scottish Tourist Board has been accused of trying to lure winter sports enthusiasts to the country with "misleading" decade-old footage of snow-covered mountainsides.

New style cities: London, Paris and Milan are now facing some serious competition

Published: 23 September 2007

GLASGOW

Bruce Parry: Just another day in Siberia ...

Published: 23 September 2007

For his BBC series 'Tribe', the explorer Bruce Parry has travelled to some of the remotest corners of the world on some extraordinary quests. But, as he tells Ian McCurrach, what we often see as a fight for survival is just ordinary life for the indigenous people he meets

How to improve holidays with children

Published: 23 September 2007

Who says summer is over? Follow us ...

Why Terminal 5's opening could spell a long summer of confusion

Published: 22 September 2007

Starting next week, thousands of volunteers will be spend a day at Heathrow's new Terminal 5. In return for a free lunch and a "goody-bag", they will help test the systems at the £4.3bn project. But far from solving the airport's problems overnight, the controversial new terminal will precipitate a summer of confusion at Heathrow - and seriously diminish public transport links for millions of the users of Europe's busiest airport.

Simon Calder: The Man Who Pays His Way

Published: 22 September 2007

Roll up... a Highlands bus is waiting to take you away

Something to declare: Eurostar changeover cancellations; between England and Scotland, in style; ast call for seat sales

Published: 22 September 2007

Warning of the week: Eurostar changeover cancellations

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