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50 DAILY MIRROR SATURDAY 05.10.2019 DM1ST Make time for you at • Warner Leisure Hotels BIG DEAL Portugal from £189pp: seven nights’ self-catering at the five-star Grand Muthu Oura View Beach Club in TR AV EL 2019 Festive Albufeira, Algarve, comes with UP AND AWAY Brian Stansted flight on November 4, or enjoys a tipple and a FESTIVE £215pp from Manchester on trip aloft with Flo BREAKS FROM Party breaks * November 2. Visit pp travelrepublic.co.uk or call £69 020 8974 7200. Air update BY NIGEL THOMPSON From Russia with fares you’ll love – no-frills carrier Wizz Air has launched bargain services departing Luton for Moscow and St Petersburg. One-way tickets with the low-cost ROOM Hungarian airline start at £25.99, UPGRADE FROM * with daily flights to both cities. £10pp St Petersburg is the cultural heart of Russia with iconic palaces and churches, and the fabulous WRIGHT FAB-YULE-LOUS Hermitage Museum. HOW ABOUT MAKING THIS CHRISTMAS SEASON THE ONE The capital FOR A BIT OF ‘YOU’ TIME WITH WARNER? Moscow offers sights such as the We’ve got some of the best addresses in the country, and we’re Kremlin, Red throwing them open for a rare one or two-night Festive Party break AT THE Square and St Basil’s Cathedral, with all the Christmas trimmings. pictured. Ever-expanding Wizz now has 107 routes to 30 countries from 11 Included in the price of 2019 Festive Party breaks: UK airports, and 63 routes from Luton where it is now the largest • Fantastic accommodation • Mince pie and welcome drink operating airline. Fun afternoons and pre-dinner shows Use of leisure facilities An airline spokesman said: ‘’Wizz START • • Complimentary access to pool and leisure club Air is delighted to continually offer Brian Hancill explores the • our customers more opportunities Three-course festive dinner with all the trimmings • to discover new and exciting coastline of North Carolina and • Party band • Late breakfast • Late checkout destinations across Europe and further afield.’’ hears stories of the first English wizzair.com 1 night, price per person, per break settlers and aircraft pioneers Friday Saturday ■■Virgin Atlantic is expanding its Location 20 December 21 December rive across North no graves, no bodies and no signs of Manchester services for the Carolina to the islands a struggle. Corton Coastal Village, Su olk £69 £69 winter season. It will also open a of the Outer Banks More than 400 years later, the new luxury Clubhouse lounge next Gunton Hall Coastal Village, Su olk £69 £69 and it feels more like woodland where the settlement spring, alongside a refurbished Lakeside Coastal Village, Hampshire £69 £69 you’re heading for the stood has an eerie calm. A short film Virgin Holidays v-room. Outer Limits. at the visitor centre explains the Highlights of the enlarged flying Alvaston Hall Hotel, Cheshire £79 £99 DUS Highway 64 crosses a 40-mile story and every day in summer a programme – which offers 30,000 Cricket St. Thomas Hotel, Somerset £79 £79 stretch of forest where the largest play called The Lost Colony is additional seats year on year – black bears in the world roam wild. performed at an open-air theatre Holme Lacy House Hotel, Herefordshire £79 £79 include more services to New Then there’s a three-mile bridge down by the waterfront. Nidd Hall Hotel, North Yorkshire £79 £99 York, Barbados and Orlando. over the Alligator River, a five-mile Five miles across the water is the The Clubhouse will host Upper bridge to Roanoke Island, and finally region’s other main claim to fame. Littlecote House Hotel, Berkshire £89 £89 Class passengers and Gold Card a two-mile bridge to the chain of On December 17, 1903, a pair of members and offer a la carte islands known as OBX. It’s all bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Studley Castle Hotel, Warwickshire £99 £99 dining, a bar and spa. breathtakingly scenic. Ohio, made the world’s first aircraft In the new look v-room, One of the first things flight above a stretch of customers will get buffet food and 2 nights, price per person, per break you notice is that Four windswept sand at Kitty play areas for younger travellers. someone called Virginia Hawk. North Carolina Friday 20 December virginatlantic.com Location and Saturday 21 December Dare is a big name. marker number plates still carry virginholidays.co.uk A whole county, that the words First in Flight Lakeside Coastal Village, Hampshire £138 five-mile bridge, a small stones show to honour brothers airport and even a brand Wilbur and Orville Bodelwyddan Castle Hotel, North Wales £158 how far BIG DEAL of vanilla extract are Wright. Sinah Warren Coastal Hotel, Hampshire £158 named after her. their plane At the Wright Brothers UAE from £591pp: Why? Because on flew on National Memorial an Thoresby Hall Hotel, Nottinghamshire £189 soak up the sun on a August 18, 1587, Virginia impressive granite week’s B&B at the became the first child each monument stands on the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in born to English parents small hill where they Ras al Khaimah. Departs from attempt WARN ER LEISURE HOTELS on American soil. But no began their trials. Newcastle on October 16. Go one knows what became of her. On Four marker stones show you to onthebeach.co.uk or *Small print: Prices are ‘from’ per person per break based on two people sharing a Standard room with Simply Dine, Studley Castle is based on two people sharing a room her third birthday, her grandfather how far their biplane flew on each on a Dinner, Bed & Breakfast basis unless specifi ed. Bed & Breakfast also available. Offer applies to new bookings only and is subject to promotional availability which is call 0871 474 3000. reviewed daily and is only applicable on bookings up to 19 people. Balance payments are due 10 weeks before the start date of your break. Savings cannot be used on John White returned from a three- attempt that day. A visitor centre bookings with Group benefi ts or bookings made through Coach Operators. Supplements apply for additional attributes such as upgrades, spa treatments and fi ne dining. Full terms and conditions apply as stated online. All persons in your booking must be over 21 years old. Calls (including calls from any type of line including mobile, BT, other year mission to England to find the tells the story and there’s a full-size fi xed line or payphone) cost no more than calls to (01 or 02) geographic numbers. Bourne Holidays Limited (trading as Warner Leisure Hotels) is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 01854900 whose registered offi ce is 1 Park Lane, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire HP2 4YL. 79108W pioneer settlement he had estab- replica of the Wright Flyer in the TOMORROW lished on Roanoke’s north-eastern glass-sided hall next door. shore silent and deserted. On the spur of the moment the Berlin, Long Island, In one of history’s most enduring next day we took our own flight in a Call 0330 100 3368 PortAventura Halloween, mysteries, all 117 settlers, including little Cessna from OBX Airplanes at holiday sleep tips, his granddaughter and her parents, Dare County Airport. Just me, quote ROMIRROR Hotel of the Week, had vanished. Most of the buildings girlfriend Flo and Carl the pilot, who top deals, Set Jetting had been flattened but there were let me take the controls for a few DM1ST mirror.co.uk SATURDAY 05.10.2019 DAILY MIRROR 51 World’s 10 most expensive beaches for daily sunlounger and parasol hire from brand marketing site [email protected] We Are Promotional – 1) Waikiki, US, £40.06 2) Miami, US, £28.04 3) Tropea, Italy, £22.49 4) Nazare, @TravelEdNigel @MirrorTravel @marjorieyue Portugal, £18.89 5) Lloret de Mar, Spain, £17.99 6) Bondi, Australia, £16.65 7) Coney Island, US, £16.02 Sorry, we cannot answer TR AV EL 8) Copacabana, Brazil, £12.23 9) Spiaggia Grande, Italy, £11.24 10) Haad Rin Nok, Thailand, £10.39 all individual queries BRIDGE OF SKIES Historic Corolla Park , ~ - ~- -. Freewheeling Raleigh is just capital Our trip to North Carolina minutes after we passed pleasingly named town of was topped and tailed with birthplace of Pepsi-Cola, directly over the flight Duck has quirky shops on a stays in Raleigh, the state QUAINT invented in a local drugstore New Bern monument. For only $69 it waterfront boardwalk. It’s capital, and New Bern, a in 1893 as Brad’s Drink. The also worth taking a long was home was a memorable way to small town near the coast. of Pepsi building is now a Pepsi shrine see the Outer Banks on a walk around Historic Raleigh is by no means a and even though I’m fizzy-pop beautiful sunny day. Corolla Park, with its small town but it feels just phobic, a huge float with The night before we had redbrick lighthouse and like one. Everyone you meet ice-cream proved irresistible. visited a bar called Poor Rich- picture-perfect village. seems to know everyone Pepsi apart, this is another ard’s in the Roanoke town of Beyond Corolla, 4x4s can else and nearly everything town that thrives on unique Manteo. A young man called Grant carry on north to a stretch of is within walking distance. local businesses, from Tate heard our accents and insisted HISTORIC Honouring beach and woodland where wild quaintly traditional stores the flight pioneers After flying in we ate at on buying drinks.