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What's cool in London?
From inbox to in-crowd, LeCool.com emails trendy tip-offs to subscribers each week. Photograph: Corbis
News reaches the Travelog inbox that LeCool.com, the free weekly subscription email for trendy urbanites has launched a London edition. Hurrah, a cool friend in cyberspace who can tip us off about all things chic in the big smoke. The picture-laden email, which is designed to read more like a glossy magazine than a plain text newsletter, promises to keep subscribers up to date with news on the latest bars, restaurants, gigs, events and exhibitions in the city.
Meet one lucky lady
Black Tomato is footing the bill for Liz
What could be better than winning our Netjetters competiton? What beats getting cash, kit and the chance to give it all up and turn your travel dreams into three months of reality? Well I think I could be persuaded that getting paid to go on holiday for two weeks a year to some of the world's most exciting destinations in the name of research - without having to chuck in my job - is a prize to beat most others.
The Lakes escape
Winter blues? Never fear, your desk-bound existence could soon be enhanced and unwound by a new "Escape line" of inspiring natural sounds, launched to coincide with the end, this weekend, of British Summer Time. To whom do we owe this pleasure? Tourism bosses in the Lake District, of course.
Why don't you switch off your TV set and play Genghis Khan instead?
Holiday or hard work? Breaks include archery in Mongolia and polar bear safaris in Spitsbergen.
If you get no satisfaction from a run of the mill "fly and flop" summer holiday, a new travel company is hoping that you will fall for one of its 150 carefully selected adrenalin and adventure breaks - from learning archery in Mongolia to tracking polar bears in Canada.