Explore…. Zurich’s badi, finding a pet-sitter and more Spotlight on… Vanity Fair Portraits arrive in Edinburgh Diary June’s hot events in great bmi destinations [...]

Interview | Mark Hodgkinson He’s gone from enfant terrible to chilled-out champion. Ahead of the start of Wimbledon on 23 June, voyager finds out what keeps the top seeded male player at the zenith of his game ROGER FEDERER ISN’T just a tennis champion, he’s also a racket-swinging nice guy – and a 21st century metrosexual male of the tennis world. But [...]

Angelina Jolie loves the adrenalin rush and John Travolta is practically a professional. But what is it really like to fly your own plane? As Jersey Aero Club prepares for its annual air rally, we take to the skies above the island to find out Words : Antonia Windsor AS YOU FLY low over startlingly blue water, with pink [...]

Report | Boyd Farrow Peroni’s latest target is Russia’s young stylish drinkers, so what better choice for making the Italian beer brand sexier than Antonio Berardi. The top fashion designer and Peroni’s Chris Taylor explain why the collaboration makes sense ANOTHER NIGHT IN aggressively cosmopolitan Moscow and another product launch. Unsurprisingly, in a city where the Vogue Café is a bigger draw [...]

So you’re thinking of owning property in the following bmi destinations? We present a few facts and fi gures to assess the investment potential. Words: Emma Mahony Moscow Population: 10.4 million In 2007 Moscow was named the world’s most expensive city for the second year running, with Russia’s super-rich feeding the boom, and – property-wise – the middle classes weighing in, having bought their homes for a modest price in [...]

Saffia Farr from Bristol moved to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, due to her husband’s job as a water engineer. She tells voyager what daily life is like there AFTER LANDING IN BISHKEK about four years ago, I quickly figured out how to navigate the city, as the streets are designed in a grid system after Russian military planners of the late [...]

You’ll flnd the latest blockbusters, an excellent selection of TV and audio programmes and games that will keep you amused for hours on many of our flights. Our listings are now categorised by system a, b, c, d for flights from the UK and a, b, c, d for flights to the UK depending on what aircraft you’re flying on today. Your cabin crew will announce [...]

whether you’re travelling for business or pleasure, you can enjoy the benefits of diamond club, the UK’s most generous frequent flyer programme diamond club is our loyalty programme which rewards customers who fly with bmi and other Star Alliance member airlines. With bmi, you can earn free flights quicker than with other airlines and get to a higher status faster. how diamond [...]

bmi has teamed up with more than 50 high-street stores to enable you to earn miles and a free fl ight when you shop online. Affi liated stores include everyday favourites such as Tesco, Asda, Currys and Dixons, so there’s every reason for you to shop online at the website fl ybmi.com/onlineshopping. Start shopping today and earn destinations miles towards [...]

North-west Ireland’s beaches are a top hang-out for extreme surfers, and now that the secret’s out, more and more people are riding their waves Words: Alf Alderson MOST NON-SURFERS are surprised to learn that there is any surf at all on north-west Ireland’s wild and often inclement coast. But in the last year, the world of big wave surfing received the opportunity of [...]

The seaside town of Southport becomes a golfing Mecca next month when the 2008 Open Championship hits town. voyager outlines why this tournament is so special Words : Jeremy Taylor SOUTHPORT, THE LANCASHIRE resort more famed for its pier and blustery beaches than anything else, is the place to be if you want to see golfing heroes like Tiger Woods, Padraig [...]

WHETHER YOU’RE A local who gets scrubbed and covered in soap suds regularly, or a nervous foreign visitor who is disrobing to sample the ‘human carwash’ experience for the first time, the hot stone slab of the hammam is ready and waiting for you. Hammams, also known as Turkish bath houses, are found all over the Middle East and North Africa. Visiting one [...]