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Points expert Jason Stauffer explains the best options for booking a round-the-world flight.

For skiers looking to reduce their carbon footprint, rail travel from the UK to the Alps has never been quicker or easier. Here’s how to get there Speeding effortlessly towards the slopes by train, you might wonder why you ever flew to a ski resort. On paper, it seems a short hop by plane; in reality, airport queues, cramped flights and long transfers can mean the journey eats up a whole day. Measured door-to-door, daytime rail travel from London can be as fast as flying, while taking a sleeper train gets you extra time on the slopes. And with Alpine glaciers suffering significant loss of snow cover as global temperatures rise, rail travel constitutes the biggest emissions saving a skier can make. Continue reading...

Anticipating a potential spring in which I am bathed in sun on a Greek island is giving me the kind of glee that makes anything feel possible Reader, it’s important to tell you that I’ve never been to Greece in my life. Not once. But I might be going, for the very first time, in the spring. And so, for the last week or so, all my dreams have featured fresh fish cooked to flaky perfection, a swimming pool into which I shall venture no deeper than my waist (I can’t swim), and the heat of the sun that not even the climate crisis can make happen in the UK in April. I don’t come with a history of exotic foreign holidays. Travelling abroad fell under the umbrella of familial duty: “Going Home”, AKA a brief return to the place where my parents were born (and coincidentally more and more foreign to them the longer they lived in the UK) in order to keep the ties of kinship going and remind us of our roots. I should say we didn’t do idyllic UK-based holidays either. I read about caravans in Enid Blyton books and watched Vaseline-lensed ads for CenterParcs and knew neither was in my immediate future. I made peace with it. We just weren’t a “going on holiday” type of family. It didn’t bother me. I harbour no resentment, and honestly, feel largely equanimous when I consider this “gap” in my life experience. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here . Continue reading...

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Sick of relying on internet recommendations, I left my next destination to chance. Luckily, it led to me discovering a magical hamlet in the Cévennes mountains of south-central France An unruly rabble bursts on to the street: a noisy eruption, bubbling towards us. This isn’t closing time on the Croisette in Cannes. A flock of sheep bustles past our cottage towards the shade of a huge chestnut tree, driven by three generations of herders and their dogs. The waterlike cacophony of their bells slows until only the odd tink tink punctuates the cicadas’ hum. The sheep graze, the shepherds doze off, and the mountain hamlet is still again. My partner and I had set off by Eurostar less than 24 hours before, yet this place felt a world away from the ad agency where I work. Continue reading...

This holiday travel season is expected to be the most expensive in years. CBS News' Kris Van Cleave has more.

Kris Van Cleave reports on the ways some people are handling high travel costs ahead of the holiday season.