Escapism
The Belle Tout Lighthouse above the white cliffs of Beachy Head, near Eastbourne is newly available with Sawday's (sawdays.co.uk). It was recently moved 57 feet back from the cliffs to stop it falling into the sea. Have breakfast looking across the waves and the South Downs, and spend the evening at the top in the lantern room, from £138 per night B&B, per double (six available).
Glamp watch
The quirky camping movement never loses pace. New to the scene this week: medieval-style camping "pavilions" at Crealy Great Adventure Park, Devon. Every new accommodation concept has to have a name and, people, they're calling this "Camp-elot".
• £200 for three nights, sleeping up to eight, 01395 234888, crealymeadows.co.uk
On the edge
Explore is launching a series of one-off trips to very adventurous destinations. A 16-day pioneering departure to Congo, including dug-out canoe trips, Brazzaville, and Pygmy communities, departs in January and costs, gulp, £8,375pp. Or 14 days meeting minority tribes in Guizhou, south China, in February is £2,096pp.
• 0844 499 0901, explore.co.uk
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Bad traveller behaviour
• Obnoxious bloke breaking branches off a tree in a nature reserve so he could get a better photograph @alisapm
• Rotund American shouting: WHY DON'T YOU SPEAK ENGLISH!?!? to Bolivian hotel owner @MegaHeid
• Friend of mine handing his boarding pass over at gate and simultaneously throwing up into bin next to desk @LeKeg1
• Two chicks in Cairo wearing headscarves ... hotpants and tight spaghetti-strap blouses @translatica
• Being ushered out of the Forbidden City in Beijing because Prince Andrew was getting a tour! @EmJudge
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What's new?
HOLIDAY
New trips to stylish hotels on Turkey's Aegean coast can be booked with Green Island Holidays, including to chichi Alacati, with its cobbled streets. A week at the Beyvi boutique hotel, pictured, is from £539pp with flights.
• 020-7637 7338, greenislandholidays.com
SPACE TRAVEL
The world's first commercial spaceport, (spaceportamerica.com) which will house the Virgin Galactic "spacecraft" that are set to send people (celebrities) to the edge of space from the end of 2012, opens for tours on 13 May, in New Mexico. Bon Voyage (0800 316 3012, bon-voyage.co.uk/spotlights) includes a visit as part of a trip to the state, £1,575pp for nine nights, with flights.
WEBSITE
Guess what the website hotelsunder100.co.uk compiles? Yes that's right! So far they're all in Sri Lanka, Zambia and India but it may expand.
TRAIN
A new high-speed train goes into service in Italy next week, offering fast connections between Milan and Naples (via Florence and Rome). Run by a private firm, Italo, of which the chairman of Ferrari was a founding shareholder (the trains are said to be styled to resemble the cars), the trains go into service on 28 April. Tickets went on sale this week at italotreno.it.
Travel trash
"One club sandwich, one caesar salad, two beers and a comedian please, room 11" – the new Hotel Indigo in Edinburgh is putting Scottish comedian Janey Godley on its room service menu this weekend. She'll perform a 10-minute stand-up routine while you munch away.
• facebook.com/HotelIndigoEurope
