Book by 22 January 0844 493 07588, ba.com/travel/flights-sale) Dubai's not for everyone, but with warm weather guaranteed, a Dubai Beach Indulgence break with Flight Centre, including flights from Heathrow and four nights' B&B at the Arabian Courtyard Hotel & Spa, is quite a bargain for £449pp (two sharing), and you can add on a Sundowner Dune Safari from £63.
Here's what you missed. 1 No matter where your island is situated, good weather comes guaranteed.
DOWNTIME Good weather is guaranteed in the Devonian Gardens (TD Square, 317 Seventh Avenue SW; 403-268-2489; free), a 2.5-acre indoor city park with a mile of walkways and more than 200,000 plants and flowers.
No problem in fine weather, but guaranteed to cure your constipation when things get 'exciting' - the term used by Stewart Robertson, our captain, revealing a Queeg-like glimmer in his eye, to describe the kind of weather he clearly enjoys most of all, ie gales and storms.
It might, though, be prepared to barter a little poor weather for the guarantee that its two best players — the chicken pox-afflicted captain, Shakib al-Hasan, and the opening batsman, Tamim Iqbal, who has a wrist injury — will be fit Thursday morning.
I have found that no weather condition can guarantee that wood smoke pollution will not fill my neighborhood, and the proliferation of backyard grillers and smokers has produced an almost non-stop wood smoke pollution problem literally 24/7, 365 days per year.
Hot weather lovers are guaranteed hot weather in their favorite season.
Not surprisingly, everyone wanted to head south next year where warmer weather would be guaranteed.
Good weather isn't guaranteed but even in January temperatures above 20C are not uncommon.
High up, the air is pure, and while warm weather isn't guaranteed, there is usually sunshine aplenty.
