However, my memories of camping at home as a child are far from cheerful. Are there campsites that offer something a bit more than standard canvas this side of the Channel? P Glover, via e-mail
A. Yet it is also reasonably cheap to reach around midsummer, even if you book shortly before departure. Flying [...]
If you are a unit trust manager, with a mandate geared towards beating the market rather than generating absolute returns, you will turn over your portfolio once every 12 to 18 months. But it is unwise to expect much share progress.Don’t forget, Voller is probably a weak holder and may sell. Franks, with I think [...]
Oslo is served from the UK by SAS Braathens, British Airways (0870 850 9850; www.ba ), Ryanair (0871 246 0000; www.ryanair ), Norwegian Air Shuttle (00 47 21 49 00 15; www.norwegian.no) and City Star Airlines (01224 722610; www.citystarairlines ). The environmental cost of a return flight from London to Oslo, in economy class, is [...]
Not only will we be able to transport hearts over longer distances, going into Europe, but we can make heart transplants a daytime activity and we can assess the hearts before we transplant them. During that time it is not beating but then we start it again to be moved in the machine, giving it [...]
Together these combine to make the sauce this region is most famous for and which is almost a staple of our own diet now, too: pesto.FarinataServes 8-10 as snacksThis is one of the tastiest and simplest things I’ve eaten for a long time. It was so delicious I certainly wouldn’t mind eating it a few [...]
There’s an extensive excellent and well-signposted network of mainly wide and relatively quiet roads
There’s an extensive, excellent and well-signposted network of (mainly) wide and relatively quiet roads.
That’s the carrot; the stick is that public transport in much of America ranges from poor to non-existent. Although many big cities in the US and Canada have excellent public transport networks, most of the citizens of this continent are wholly dependent [...]
The latest belt-tightening follows a fall in sales of pick-up trucks, Ford’s best-selling models.The “Big Three” US car manufacturers – GM, Ford and DaimlerChrysler – have all been hit by the two-edged crisis afflicting the industry: falling demand for the truck and SUV “gas guzzlers” on which they relied for profits, and sky-high labour costs [...]
I just want a job and a normal life.”But no one in this poor, crime-ridden country would hire anyone wearing gang marks. Those who join will be members for life, knowing they have nothing to lose They will rob, smuggle or kill to survive. Once they choose this path to death, there is no turning [...]
I think I have an obsession with guns.”He said that he was 6ft 1in tall, born in Montreal and was of Indian heritage. He listed his weakness as being laziness, and said that he was scared of nothing.Answering the question of how he wished to die, he wrote: “Like Romeo and Juliet – or in [...]
How does she now feel about his decision to remain in Russia when it was increasingly clear that Putin was becoming hostile towards him?”If he had left,” says Marina Filipovna, “all the muck-raking that has since been done of his character would still have happened, and I don’t think he could have lived with that. [...]