Travel news: the first World Street Food Congress and leisurewear that claims to beat jet lag …

Plus: win a glamping trip, a new Sea Life aquarium in Manchester, and 50% off midweek breaks at a tipi campsite in the Wye Valley
  
  

Singapore, Chinatown, Smith Street.. Image shot 2007. Exact date unknown.
Food stalls in Singapore's Chinatown. Photograph: Alamy Photograph: Alamy

Escapism

The first World Street Food Congress, showcasing the best cuisine from food trucks, vans and hawker stalls around the world, takes place this week in Singapore, with top chefs and speakers from around the globe, such as Anthony Bourdain, Claus Meyer and Johnny Chan. For updates on the winners, see wsfcongress.com. And see our guide to cheap eats in Singapore: theguardian.com/singapore.

Win a glamping trip

Guardian Holiday Offers, in partnership with the award-winning glamping, camping and caravanning site Pitchup.com, is offering the chance to win one of five glamping holidays, from yurts on a Wiltshire alpaca farm to wigwams in Perthshire. Bed down in comfort for free with a prize at one of five fantastic sites.
• See theguardian.com/glamping to enter, and for terms and conditions

Travel trash

A sport fashion brand, HPE Clothing, says it has invented leisurewear that can beat jet lag. It claims its special new antimicrobial Freshfit fabric draws heat from the body, and is compressive, to increase muscle oxygenation, and "decrease muscle oscillation to reduce fatigue".
hpe-shop.com

What's new?

Kid's attraction
A new Sea Life aquarium, opening in Manchester on Thursday (6 June), contains over a million litres of water, 5,000 sea creatures – including sharks, rays, seahorses and jellyfish – and a trademark underwater tunnel for seeing it all close up. Visitors can also hold a crab and stroke a starfish at the touch pools. Situated at Barton Square next to the Trafford Centre, and the Legoland Discovery Centre, it is the 14th Sea Life to open in the UK.
• Tickets from £12pp, visitsealife.com/manchester

Arts event
A stunning collection of beautiful circus costumes dating from the 1800s and used by some of the greatest circus troupes in the world, will be on display at the Centre National du Costume de Scène in Moulins, in the Allier department of central France, from 15 June until 5 January 2014.
cncs.fr

Food festival
Pembrokeshire Fish Festival gets down to fishy business between 22 and 30 June, with food demos and pop-up restaurants in Haverfordwest, fishing competitions, coasteering with a foraging twist with Preseli Ventures (preseliventure.co.uk) and foodie events all over the county.
pembrokeshirefishweek.co.uk

Cheap date

Tipi Adventures is offering 50% off midweek breaks (Sun-Thurs) at its tipi campsite in the Wye Valley, Herefordshire. A two-night stay costs from £180 for a tipi sleeping seven people. Canoeing, cycling and archery are also available at the site.
• 07415 202979, tipiadventure.co.uk

 

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