Brits suffer from 'Returnerism'
While the weather this weekend was wonderful with temperatures crossing that of Ibiza, it now turns out that Brit travelers suffer from something called 'returnerism'. They are, it seems, creatures of habit. Almost a third of Britons who go abroad return to the same resort every year and even go in for the same activities. A study by holiday protection firm ATOL has found that those suffering from returnerism have been to the same place four times and more than one in ten return to the same holiday spot ten or more times, even trying to book the same hotel room. About 34 per cent go to the same restaurant they ate at on their last trip, and 24 per cent don't even try finding new drinking holes as they return to the same pub or bar. Paris is the most returned-to-destination, which, I admit, I too am guilty of, followed by the Canary Islands and the Balearics. Basically, we love familiar surroundings during our well-earned breaks!
Beatles back in Liverpool
Beatles nostalgia is a never-ending phenomenon for its fans. Now an exciting new collection of previously unseen photographs of the band and Eric Clapton taken by Pattie Boyd are to go on display for the first time in the UK. Boyd, now 71, was married to Beatle George Harrison for a decade and, later, Eric Clapton, who wrote the famous Wonderful Tonight for her, and many of the pictures in the exhibition at the Beatles Story museum in Liverpool next month will be from her time as one of the most envied women in the world.
Interestingly the exhibition will include photographs from the Beatles' visit to northern India in 1968 including one, which shows Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John Lennon. There is also a photograph of Lennon with the Maharishi during their famous Rishikesh trip. Martin King, from The Beatles Story, feels the photos are 'incredibly intimate and heartfelt — perhaps some of the most moving and intriguing in all Beatles and musical lore.'