An adventurous tour on Africa's wilder side

Exciting challenges in The Gambia and Senegal

Late travel deals: July 9

A week in a cottage on Scotland's west coast, £395; walking holidays in Turkey for seven nights, £549; 11 days in...

Von Essen offers £15m for tiny Herm island

The luxury hotel group wants to buy Island off Guernsey that spent much of the Second World War under German occupation

French cycle experiment has hit some bumps

Thefts, deaths and injuries spoil the first anniversary of the appearance of public bicycles in the French capital

News in brief: British pay double

Survey finds car hire in France costs more than twice as much as for Belgians and Spanish

Warning - theme parks make you fat

Children’s meals served at hundreds of UK family attractions are unhealthy

Neofile: Andy Murray's Scotland highlights

The tennis ace skips the highlands in favour of the Hard Rock Cafe

Confessions - shake, rattle and roll over

Gordon Coxhill feels the earth move twice in one night

My hols: Robbie Coltrane

Coal fires on the beach, kirsch in the kids’ food, hotel-size waves: Robbie Coltrane loves it all

I once took Indira Gandhi on holiday but de Gaulle was a real handful

EasyJet faces flying visit from bailiffs

Court demands £400 from easyJet to compensate a passenger who missed his flight when his train was delayed by flooding

Arrivals - where the hell is Matt is back

BA price rises leave a quarter of seats empty

Carrier pays price for ramping up fuel surcharges and worsening consumer downturn with 87,000 drop in passengers

Win a Zeppelin flight over London

Two people will fly over the capital on July 8 on one of the maiden flights

Nightmare on easyJet: what happens when your no-frills flight becomes a no-flight farce

Internet airlines avoid verbal communication like most people avoid flashers

British Museum 'is most popular'

Museum says last year was its most successful ever as it attracted 6.04m, with the terracotta warriors a key reason

Late travel deals: July 2 - stay on the Mamma Mia island of Skopelos

A week at Greek island film location, from £399; three nights in Cornwall, £129; eight nights in Thailand, £649

Spanish airport delays feared

Spanish police are threatening to bring airports and border crossings to a standstill in July

Cardiff airport considering Tom Jones name change

Welsh airport muses crooner tribute, BA raises surcharge, US airport profit from loose change

Firm denies blame for Namibia death

A gap-year tour operator denied it was responsible for the safety of a woman who died on one of its trips