You’d expect hair stylist Guido Paulo to scatter names like confetti. Six years ago, Calvin [Klein] plucked him from the new London scene to style Kate [Moss] in a campaign shot by David [Sims] in New York. Versace used Guido exclusively for his famous Avedon portfolios with Stella and Amber. Even this year’s model, Karen Elson, owes her signature fringe to Guido.

The Imaginative Traveller 0181 742 8612.Fly return from Gatwick, Manchester or Birmingham to New York, Boston, Atlanta or Washington from pounds 169, with tickets booked by October 3 for flights between November 1 and December 12. We turned off onto a footpath, which curved along the sides of a series of small hills. I carried a kit- bag containing presents for Dana: two bottles of whisky, an outsize pipe made in London, a tin of Balkan Sobranie, and my cartridge belt. This last, an English, old, hand-sewn, worn, and desirable cartridge belt, I was parting with under protest (“But Redmond,” James had said, “what possible use could it be now you’ve been disarmed? What do you mean, it’s a lucky cartridge belt, you’ve shot lots of pheasants with it? Redmond, you are an Ignoble Savage.”).. Two weeks half-board in Mallorca cost pounds 279 departing Birmingham on September 27 Sunworld 0990 550 440.

Depart Manchester or Newcastle on September 29 and spend a week in Salou for pounds 139, in a mobile home (pounds 149 in an apartment). Siesta Travel Europe 01642 227711.
An apartment sleeping six in the lakeside town of Castiglione del Lago in Umbria costs pounds 189 per person for a week until the end of September. Room Service 0171 636 6888.Pay pounds 279 for two weeks self-catering in Turkey departing Stanstead on October 6. Sunworld 0990 550 440.A 17-day accompanied tour of Yemen in a 4X4 costs from pounds 1,295 full- board with flights departing Heathrow on September 26. Travelbag Adventures 01420 541 007.Depart Heathrow on October 5 for a trip to the ancient sites of Syria, and pay pounds 825 for two weeks with guide. Very naughties.”"Do you go with hotel girls?”"No Redmon,” said Leon, with great seriousness, “there is a new disease here Your spear it rots.

You go to hospital, they look at your spear, you take medicine We have a word for this disease I not know it in English. We Iban, in our language, we call it syphilis.”The road wound up out of the town, past a small airstrip and a group of government houses and into secondary jungle. He was becoming less shy and awkward and, when Bidai and Siba and Edward were not about, he was prepared to talk in English. As we left the hotel and walked up the hill he drew me aside.
“Redmon,” he said, sotto voce, “I hope you and James not go with hotel girls?”"I haven’t seen any hotel girls.”"They on top floor. The following excerpt has been taken from a classic work of travel literature. Readers are invited to tell us (a) where is the action taking place? and (b) who is the author? Blackwells Bookshops will supply pounds 30- worth of book tokens to the first correct answer out of the hat.

Answers on a postcard to: Literally Lost, Independent on Sunday, 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5DL Usual Newspaper Publishing competition rules apply. The night before we were due to leave, Leon called to take us to Dana’s longhouse. The reviews are full of dull and meaningless phrases like “tastefully decorated” and “friendly hotel” Almost makes you yearn for trip on a cargo ship. Perhaps not.Strand voyages, tel: 0171 836 6363; Saga, tel: 0800 505030; Thomson, tel: 0990 502565.Andrew Tuck. They are the type of holidaymaker who would have rated a trip on the Titanic as a triumph. Thirteen days visiting the Treasures of the Baltic will cost pounds 2,329 (in Grade D!).If you can’t face the thought of going to sea but like the idea of staring out across miles of water, there’s always a lakes holiday. Thomson’s Lakes and Mountains brochure for May to October 1998 takes in Italy, Austria, Slovenia and Canada among other destinations.