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I went two summers ago with my boyfriend Alexi for five days for the first time. I remember thinking that I had never realised that England could be so beautiful We stayed at Camelot Castle, which overlooks the sea. It was stunning.What have you learnt from your travels?I’ve got quite a good understanding of different religions and cultures. First holiday memory?

Climbing trees and swinging on a tyre in the garden at our house in Tangier, Morocco and sliding down sand dunes at the beach. My great-grandfather built the house and we would go there every summer.
Best holiday?When I was about 10, my parents took us on safari in Kenya. It was one of the best holidays I have ever been on; I remember it being so beautiful. We had Masai Mara tribespeople guarding our tents at night.Favourite place in the British Isles?Cornwall.

But travellers of either gender face other problems, she warns. The Slovak capital has a high incidence of petty theft, the police are badly paid and may seek bribes, and “travellers with darker skin colour should be aware that there is a nasty rash of nationalist skinheads in parts of Slovakia”.. The price is £920, with a single supplement of £60.Warning of the week: beware in Bratislava”Feminism is still a new concept and women on their own are more pitied than pestered,” writes Lucy Mallows, author of the new Bradt Guide to Bratislava (£6.99). Destination of the week: the Somme, with poetry

“I have a rendezvous with death,” wrote the First World War poet, Alan Seeger.

On a unique tour of the battlefields of the Somme in September, you can see the locations where poets such as Seeger, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon fought, wrote and died in the Great War. The three-night trip is organised by Martin Randall Travel (020-8742 3355; www.martinrandalltravel.co.uk).
The tour will be led by the military historian, Andrew Spooner, accompanied by an actor who reads the poems – sometimes at the site where they were composed, sometimes at the poet’s grave and at times, at the place of their death or disappearance.Participants will be taken by coach from London via the Channel Tunnel to Arras, where accommodation (with all meals) is in a 16th-century hotel. But rivalry on India-UK routes is so intense that price rises are unlikely.. Air Sahara, which flies from Heathrow to Delhi, has been bought by Jet Airways – another recent arrival to Britain, with flights from Heathrow to both Delhi and Mumbai.Usually any reduction in competition leads to fare hikes.