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WEBWATCH
INDEX
Holidays
Christian
holiday centres, hotels and guesthouses
British
Waterways
Cefn Lea Mid-Wales Holiday and Conference Centre
Christian Camping International Ltd
Christian Endeavour Holiday Centres
Christiantravel.co.uk
Country Walks
Highway Journeys - tours and pilgrimages
Lee Abbey
Mapsworldwide.co.uk - maps and travel guides
Masterski
MasterSun
New Wine
Oak Hall
Oscar
missionary portal - travel section
Scargill House, north Yorkshire
Snowpeak
travlang.com - learn a language
Utravel.co.uk
Christian
holidays - fancy getting away? Here are some sites to check out:
www.cgholidays.co.uk
- Christian Guild Holidays, centres around the UK
www.christianholidays.co.uk
- five centres for family or church breaks
www.cci.org.uk/getaway
- for Christian holidays, activity and conference centres, retreats
and festivals
www.leeabbey.org.uk - themed
weeks/retreats in scenic north Devon
www.medinavalleycentre.org.uk
- outdoor, water-based activity holidays, Isle of Wight
And some
hotels to check out:
www.green-pastures.org
- Dorset, healing environment
www.blaithwaite.co.uk -
15 miles from Keswick
www.haldoncourt.co.uk -
family holidays in Exmouth, Devon
www.betheden.co.uk - Llandudno,
North Wales
www.thetudor.org - homely guest
house, Cromer, Norfolk
www.theglenbournehotel.com
- Alum Chine, Bournemouth
www.thetowerhouse.com -
overlooking the Aegean Sea: Kos, Greece
- Planned
a holiday yet for this year? Check out www.utravel.co.uk
for some competitive offers with a UK bias
- When
the weather's grotty we all fancy browsing for a holiday of some
kind. Here are some Christian companies and holiday centres to get
you started: MasterSun, Oak Hall, Christian Endeavour Holiday Centres,
Cefn Lea Mid-Wales Holiday and
Conference Complex, Lee
Abbey. Mail us your recommendations!
- The
excellent missionary portal Oscar now has an extensive holidays
section, which includes Accommodation Finding Services & Sources,
Hotels/Guest Houses/Bed & Breakfast, Self-Catering, Camping/Caravanning,
Organised Holidays, Retreat Houses, Bible Weeks & Festivals
plus other events. Some of the listings provide specialised or 'low-cost'
holidays specifically for mission personnel in the UK and further
afield.
See http://www.oscar.org.uk/service/logistics/homeleave/holidays.htm
(UK) or
http://www.oscar.org.uk/opportunity/locations/logistics.htm
(Global)
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A
new-look website is to be launched by CCI, the Association of
Christian holiday organisations across the UK, on 2 January. The
site (www.cci.org.uk) aims
to provide a "one stop shop for all group leaders needs,
including a venue-finding service linked to more than 200 centres".
The site also features details of CCIs Pray for the Summer
campaign literature, which ties in with an initiative running
from 14 to 15 June.
- Bookings
are flowing in thick and fast for this year's New Wine events
- you can book online now at www.new-wine.org
- Thinking
of a holiday? There are a good selection of maps and travel
guides at discounted prices at www.mapsworldwide.co.uk,
says CFN reader Sue Brown. Also some brilliant satellite images
of UK regions and the world, British Isles, and other continents
from space. The site is easy to use and a Which trader member.
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Another
Christian holiday company with a website are Highway
Journeys who run Christian pilgrimages and tours, and have
the slogan "Evangelism through leisure". And if you're
interested in skiing, another Christian-based company to check
out apart from MasterSki
is Snow Peak, who run
skiing and snowboarding holidays in France and Switzerland.
- Wanting
to learn a language in your spare time? Or just heading off on holiday
this year and keen to speak a little to the locals? Check out www.travlang.com
You can learn languages online, use dictionaries for tricky words
and phrases, and even hear "Sounds of the World's Animals"
- how the cries of different beasts translate!
- Wondering
where to go on holiday? For a truly Christian choice, CFN newsletter
reader Audrey Naylor suggests you check out www.christiantravel.co.uk
It's clearly under development, but could provide a handy resource
in due time.
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While we're on holidays, Scargill
House in Skipton, north Yorkshire, has family weeks from 22
July until 2 September, including a special lone parent week (22-29
July)
- Authentic
British holidays invariably touch on canals, and a good walk. So
here are two places to bookmark ...
British Waterways
- Plan a watery break and glide along the nation's network of canals.
And Country Walks
- Plenty of tips on where to go a-wandering.
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