Travel Notes...

TASTE OF CORNWALL

IF CORNWALL seems a long way away for Londoners, call in at The Goring Hotel in Westminster for a Taste of Cornwall. There’s a Cornish menu influenced by Rick Stein and wines from the Camel Valley. Cornish companies will be selling their wares — including surf boards ( thegoring.com).

HANDY SOLUTION

CROWD-FUNDED design company Wingback has the answer to scrambling around for your passport, boarding pass, cash and cards at the airport: a nifty slimline leather wallet. It’s an ideal Father’s Day present, especially as you can pick the colour (£60, plus £10 for an inscription, wingback.co.uk).

GATWICK GREETINGS

GATWICK Airport is honouring the lost art of sending postcards by displaying more than 200 of them, stretching back more than 70 years. On show in the North Terminal until June 23. ( gatwickairport.com).

HONEY, I’M HOME

VIRGIN Holidays’ new suburbanstyle accommodation in Orlando, Florida, above, is 100 per cent American. The Balmoral at Water’s Edge is a community of villas, complete with an event lawn, fire pits for s’mores and a wedding pavilion ( virginholidays.co.uk).

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