Holiday and travel news and offers:

Mercury Direct Last minute offers on a range of hotels and cheap package deals to destinations that include the Algarve, Bali, the Costa del Sol, Cuba, Cyprus, Kerala, Madeira, Malta, Mauritius and Sri Lanka.

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Discounted villa holidays! Great value villa holidays available now, to destinations in the Mediterranean, the Canaries and Florida. Escape to the sun with your own villa plus pool:

Superbreak Events Breaks short breaks, hotel & events, tours, concerts, culture, shows, gigs, sport, comedy, like:
Fawlty Towers – various UK venues/dates.
Murder Mystery Breaks – various UK venues and dates.

Recent additions to the listings:
• Ocean Florida – package and tailor made holidays to the beautiful state of Florida.
• Enthusiast Wine Tours New Zealand – small group and custom tailored wine tours throughout beautiful New Zealand.
• is 5 journeys – self discovery and renewal breaks backed by leading tour operators and top personal development coaches.
• Imber Court Photo Training – digital photography courses in Surrey.
• Book Your Golf – discount golf breaks and holidays at all of the top golfing destinations around the world.
• GoLearnTo.com – offering a range of inspirational holiday courses suitable for all timescales and budgets.
• filmcourses.net – intensive, introductory, 1 week or 2-3 weekend, film making courses run by an ex-BBC cameraman/editor.
• ABOUTAsia Travel – tailor-made travel in Siem Reap, for Angkor Wat, and throughout Cambodia.
• FPP Travel – France Passion Plaisance for river cruises and boating holidays on canals and rivers in France and Europe.
• Elton Yoga – yoga retreats and yoga teacher training in Goa with Heather Elton.
• Space To Be Retreats – luxurious wellness retreats on Ibiza, including fitness training, yoga, meditation and detox.
• Slimmeria – luxury sliming retreat in a Georgian country house, offering expert advice on detox and weight loss.
• Velvet Adventure Sailing – comfortable, friendly skippered charter sailing holidays, berths booked on an individual basis.
• Mark Warner – ATOL protected winter sun and ski holidays for families and adults.
• Facilitutors.com – all sorts of courses like fishing rod building, archery, hat making, photography, antiques or patchwork.
• Essaouira Images – Moroccan photography holidays for all levels, supplemented with a range of activities.
• Wildlife & Wilderness – bespoke safari and wildlife holidays and wilderness experiences for discerning travellers.
• Spirit of Life Holistic Holidays – holistic holidays in Greece with yoga, walking, tai chi, writing, meditation and dream healing.
• Casa Cebadillas – culinary vacation in Spain's historic white village of Torrox Pueblo, Andalucia.
• Spanish Among the Orange Groves – learn Spanish whilst you enjoy an activity holiday: horseriding, cooking, trekking, cycling, flamenco or yoga.
• France Outdoors – walking, multi-activity, yoga, snowshoe, skiing and family holidays in the southern Alps and Corsica.
• Viva Sports Events – tailored fitness breaks in Mallorca.
• Holidays for Single Parents – holidays with a group of like-minded single parents.

• New listings in the Blue Directory >>

Updated and new categories:
• Short cruises & mini cruises – an expansion of our cruise section reflecting current changes in cruising style, it lists mini cruise holidays, taster cruises and short cruise breaks of about 3 to 5 days.
• Our fitness breaks category has been expanded to include new sections for running training camps and triathlon camps, where focused training, often in the sun, is the name of the game. We also introduce a new category for, increasingly popular, boot camps, listing health, fitness and weight loss bootcamp retreats.
• Olive picking holidays – is a new entry in our food and drink section and lists olive harvesting & picking breaks and working holidays picking olives and learning how they are pressed and processed into olive oil.
• Student holidays – is a new section for travel, tours, holidays and courses aimed at students, many offering discounted rates to student travellers.
• A new escorted holidays section has been added by request, and lists tours with guide accompaniment; this compliments our existing section for coach holidays, many of which will also be escorted.
• Last minute adventure holidays – lists late availability, special deals and offers on activity and adventure holidays and travel.

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Editorials:
Mountaineering and Ecology – An Alpine Introduction – course in the Swiss Alps introducing Alpine mountaineering (glacier travel, roped rock-climbing and use of ice-axe and crampons) and the ecology of the Alps.

Cycling holidays and tours in Wessex– bike tours in Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight. An introduction to the off- and on-road cycle routes, pathways, highways and byways that beckon the cyclist ...

Combination yoga holidays – holidays and courses that combine yoga with other activities. Adventure yoga holidays like walking, surfing, climbing, skiing and diving. Creative and cultural yoga breaks that team yoga with cooking, painting, writing, dance, safaris ...

Booking a singles skiing holiday, the options–  a ski or snowboard holiday is a good choice for the single skier and there are a number of ways of going about it, this article looks at the pros and cons of the different approaches.

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