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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 on Ryanair (0871 246 0000; www.ryanair ) on the Stansted-Stockholm Skavsta route for departures next Saturday, 1 July, returning in five days, costs £105 return. But bookings for the flights have been suspended for the past few weeks, and services are unlikely to start before 12 July at the earliest. Intending passengers are being told: “Flights between London Luton and Istanbul will be back on sale as soon as possible, subject to approval from the Turkish civil aviation authorities”.The airline says that sales on the new route should resume shortly. One-way fares for the four-hour journey – the longest no-frills flight from Britain – will start at £31.

Plans for a new link to North Africa are not affected; easyJet’s Gatwick-Marrakech route is set to start on 4 July.Bargain of the week: northern exposureStockholm is at its most beautiful in early July, with almost continuous daylight in the Swedish capital. The final bill will be at least three times that figure.Warning of the week: Istanbul hitchThe intercontinental aspirations of Britain’s leading no-frills airline have been temporarily halted by a bureaucratic blockage. Next Thursday, easyJet (0905 821 0905; www.easyjet ) was due to start flying from Luton to Sabiha Gokcen airport, on the Asian side of the Bosphorus, close to Istanbul. The radical design includes a rooftop pool, with views across one of Britain’s most beautiful cities.

The complex also boasts steam rooms, massage and treatment rooms.For several years, signposts using the spa’s logo have been installed in the city centre – leading tourists to a building site marked “No Public Access”, which has been repeatedly vandalised The scheme was originally budgeted at £13m. Staff training has already begun.Men and women have enjoyed the UK’s only natural hot springs for 7,000 years. The hotel also offers specialist tennis packages, encompassing accommodation, most meals, lessons and massages.La Residencia, Son Canais, Deia, Mallorca, Spain (00 34 971 639 011; www.hotellaresidencia ) Doubles start at €449 (£321), including breakfast.. The location, in the city centre, was in daily use up until 1978. Five historic buildings close to the ancient Roman spa have been restored, with the centrepiece being a spectacular new structure by Nicholas Grimshaw. Destination of the week: a bath in Bath?

A month from now, a West of England railway station may start living up to its name – if Britain’s most embarrassing Millennium Project finally opens for business. Since 1978, when Britain’s only natural thermal spa closed down, Bath Spa station has been a misnomer.