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Wrap up warm for a winter walk in the rolling Wiltshire countryside then curling up in front of a crackling log fire on a Christmas or New Year break at Whatley Manor (01666 822 888, www.whatleymanor.com).

Get Christmas off to a flying start with an Italian weekend break to one of the country’s traditional Christmas markets? Italian specialist, Sardatur Holidays, have put together their selection of the best in Rome, Milan and Verona.

From 31st October 2011 until 31st March 2012, guests staying at the family friendly Polurrian Bay Hotel (www.polurrianhotel.com) on the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, can enjoy a range of added benefits with a selection of enticing winter offers.

Escape to the country for a traditional Christmas or New Year celebration with Fine Individual Hotels (www.fihotels.com), a group offering over 50 unique, independent properties scattered across England, Scotland and Wales.

A brand new ITV1 series starts this Thursday and sees Billy Connolly travelling the world’s most famous highway ‘Route 66’. Travellers have the chance to follow in his footsteps with Titan Travel’s 17 day ‘Historic Route 66’ tour.

Titan Travel (0800 988 5858, www.titantravel.co.uk), the award-winning tour operator, has revealed its latest Worldwide brochure with a completely new look and feel.

Shirai Yayoi has been a Japanese tea ceremony master for 50 years. Shirai can now be found performing the ancient ritual at the 5 star Hotel Okura Macau - the first hotel in Macau to have a tea ceremony room.

Titan Travel (0800 988 5867, www.titantravel.co.uk/elegantrivercruises) has unveiled its 2012 programme of award-winning river cruises for independent travellers with three brand new itineraries in a brochure that has a fresh, new pictorial style.

For adrenaline junkies and those in search of an action packed winter break in Mallorca, Hotel L’Avenida (www.avenida-hotel.com), is remaining open from November to February to offer rental of the mansion for groups of friends or family.

Fine Individual Hotels’ (www.fihotels.com) offers a collection of privately owned luxury hotels across the UK, some offering luxurious spas guaranteed to rejuvenate the mind, body and soul. Here is a round-up of some of the spas they have to offer.