Save a packet on a train classic
Nothing epitomises the age of elegance like a classic train journey. Re-creating this bygone era isn’t cheap â€" the trip to Istanbul on the Orient Express costs more than four grand â€" but we’ve been trainspotting and have found bargain alternatives to the classic departures.

The cold war legacy of Lithuania
You can only imagine the terror. The padded cell in the KGB museum in Vilnius carries few obvious scars of brutality, but it's truly disturbing: a testament to the horrors of Soviet control, when detainees were injected with truth serum, strapped into straitjackets and left to hallucinateand no one could hear their cries.

Students Warned About Mexican Violence
They're being urged to use extreme caution if they head there during Spring Break, with drug cartels at war.
Where you sit can save you, Amsterdam air crash shows
The crash in Amsterdam appears to support the theory that the safest place to sit in a modern aircraft is in, or close to, the emergency exit rows over the wings.

Mystery Ends: Agatha Christie's Home Opens

Mystery Ends: Agatha Christie's Home Opens
The house has everything an Agatha Christie fan could wantexcept a body in the library. The stuccoed Georgian villa where the writer spent her vacations is opening to the public for the first time.
Virgin completes its round-the-world network
Sir Richard Branson launched Virgin’s first round-the-world airfare today having completed his global network with a transpacific service.

Ryanair and the 'idiot bloggers'
Ryanair has confirmed that one its staff abused a blogger who questionned the airline site's credentials.

The world's best working holidays
As the age of conspicuous consumption stares back at us like Dorian Gray’s passport photo, many of us are looking for a more meaningful holiday experience than grabbing gratuitous me-time beside yet another tropical pool. The National Trust reports record bookings for its 2009 working holidays, and voluntourism outfits, such as the TUI-owned i-to-i, say interest is higher than ever in their overseas programmes.

50 ways to cut the cost of your next holiday
There’s a depression, sorry recession, sorry depression going on. It’s the worst for 30, sorry 100, sorry 1,000 years. There are, no there aren’t, no there are, no there definitely aren’t green shoots of recovery.

Denver On A Budget

Denver On A Budget
Denver and the Rocky Mountains are tailor-made for frugal vacations.

Mexico City and the beachwith kids
Cowboys and Indians, communists and ice-picks, Aztecs, artists, mariachis and masked wrestlers. We saw all of those, as well as colonial mansions, baroque churches, teeming markets and great museums.

Mobile phones take off on Ryanair
Ryanair today allowed passengers to use their mobile phones on board its aircraft.

40 late travel deals for ski holidays
Fresh videos: The expert guides to Val, Tignes, Courchevel and Meribel + disco on the snow train, gadgets and fashions

Disco dancing on the Snow Train to the Alps
Ask anyone on the Rail Europe Snow Train why they’re onboard and the answer is always the same â€" you get eight days skiing out of a week’s holiday instead of six. But tell anyone about the Snow Train, and there’s only one thing they want to knowâ€" does it really have a disco carriage?

Caravans overtake Spain as Britons' most popular holiday
* Read our camping, caravan and motorhome special

Why you should give hotel haggling a go
As a nation, we’re not born hagglers. To other cultures it’s second nature, but we Brits find the whole process a bit awkward â€" which is our way of saying that it’s excruciatingly embarrassing and Just Not Done.

Billy Connolly: on top of the world in Canada
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Airlines' On-Time Performance Sags In Dec.

Airlines' On-Time Performance Sags In Dec.
U.S. airlines' on-time performance declined dramatically in December compared to the previous month, but improved slightly over a year earlier, the Transportation Department said.
Your Valentine break disasters
Dumped in Dublin, penny-pinching in Prague? See our Valentine disaster map of the broken hearted, and find out why London and Paris are the pits for a romantic break

Travel agent Thomas Cook sends Bristol holidaymaker to the wrong country
After two flights had carried her halfway around the world, Samantha Lazzaris began to suspect that she was in the wrong place only when she spoke to an airport taxi driver.

Return to Rome50 years later
Send us your photos and words from a return anniversary trip

Valentines weekend: where would you go?
The world's most romantic breaks or commercialised tosh? FILL OUT OUR TWO-MINUTE VALENTINE'S SURVEY

20 romantic British hotels for less
Birds know it. Bees know it. Even educated fleas know it. Valentine’s Day is officially the least lovely day of the year.

Stay at the Kremlin - in Turkey
This must be how it happens, how a normal person ends up here at the Kremlin, in Turkey. All your life you've wanted to see Moscow, only you have a morbid fear of cold weather. Then, while trawling the internet, you chance on the other Kremlin: an almost life-size reproduction of the real thing.

Mardi Gras: Let The Good Times Roll!

Mardi Gras: Let The Good Times Roll!
Parade floats are being built, costumes are being fitted and krewes are practicing. Let the good times roll! It's almost time for Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Passengers forced to walk to snowbound Luton airport
I now fully understand the meaning of Parkway, as in Luton Airport Parkway station. It means that if the shuttle bus service between the train station and the passenger terminal is suspended, as it has been today because of the snow, then you have to lug your suitcases across a park - and it’s a bloody long way.

A week in the saddle in Bulgaria
If the thought of a horse riding, culture and wine trail in Eastern Europe conjures up images of steeds with flowing manes, traditionally-dressed bagpipe players and homemade wine and moussaka, you've come to the right place.

The Times travel photo competition
January winner

Tuesday: The latest airport, rail and travel news
6pm EUROSTAR announces cancellations for tomorrow, owing to the knock-on effect of Monday's bad weather. On Wednesday Feburary 4 the following services won't operate: the 6:55am and 5.35pm London-Paris, and the 9:07am and 5.43pm Paris-London. Travellers with reservations on these trains will be allocated seats on the next available departure or can exchange their tickets within the 60 days to travel within 120 days.

The latest airport, rail and travel news
7.30pm: STATE OF PLAY - expect disruption at most airports in England, not least from knock-on delays due to positioning of aircraft and crew in SE airports. Mainline rail services also likely to be hit, particularly on the East Coast main line, main routes to the South-West and the South-East. Icy roads will further delay travel. And don't forget to log on tomorrow for more up-to-the-minute coverage.

A 747 flat bed - for £120 a night
It costs up to £3,000 for a night on a business-class flat bed â€" but I’ve just done it for £120, without compromising one jot on frills.