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By Linda Mckay

PUBLISHED: 06:49 EST, 8 June 2012 | UPDATED: 10:50 EST, 8 June 2012

I am planning a backpacking trip round the Greek islands this summer and had hoped to supplement my holiday with some bar work.

With the financial crisis in the country reaching epic proportions will this still be a good time to go? IM, via email.

Greece: Is now still a good time to go?

Linda McKay of This is Money replies: Greece has hit the headlines in the city pages for the troubled financial state and the parlous state of the nation as a whole.

If you decide to go ahead with your plan you will be welcomed, as tourism is still accounts for 15 per cent of total output and one in five jobs in Greeces 170billion economy, but strikes and riots have spooked visitors and many have been put off by fears of serious difficulties if Greece is pushed out of the euro.

Holidaymakers like you will be put off travelling leaving thousands of small Greek pensiones empty and their owners desperate for business.

The strength of the pound will take you further but everything in the Greek islands themselves has to be imported so you may find prices in the tavernas higher than even last year as restaurateurs struggle to break even.

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I'm planning a trip around the Greek islands this summer. Is this still a good time to go?

Published Friday, 04 May 2012

The stopping of all bmibaby flights at the airport on 11 June is part of a move towards winding up the budget airline by September.

The announcement by International Airlines Group (IAG), BMI's new owners and a parent company of British Airways, comes just ahead of the main holiday season.

Passengers will hear next week if new airlines can be attracted to fill the domestic and international routes to Birmingham, East Midlands, London Stansted, Amsterdam, Geneva, Malaga, Alicante, Palma, Faro, Ibiza, and Menorca, which will be left vacant by the exit.

"While the London Heathrow route remains unaffected, the decision by International Airlines to withdraw bmibaby flights from George Best Belfast City Airport is disappointing news," Ms Foster said.

"Understandably, passengers already booked on a bmibaby flight will be very concerned and wondering what their rights are. I would like to reassure that if they are unable to make suitable alternative arrangements with BMI Baby, they are entitled to a full refund."

It is a worrying time for thousands of customers. It is a worrying time for staff.

Brian Ambrose, Chief Executive of Belfast City Airport

Last year, a total of 420,000 passengers - 20% of the airport's business - flew with the airline.

Ms Foster said: "This decision by IAG is also deeply disappointing for the individual workers who may face redundancy."

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Shock and questions after bmibaby move - Video

Published Friday, 04 May 2012

The stopping of all bmibaby flights at the airport on 11 June is part of a move towards winding up the budget airline by September.

The announcement by International Airlines Group (IAG), BMI's new owners and a parent company of British Airways, comes just ahead of the main holiday season.

Passengers will hear next week if new airlines can be attracted to fill the domestic and international routes to Birmingham, East Midlands, London Stansted, Amsterdam, Geneva, Malaga, Alicante, Palma, Faro, Ibiza, and Menorca, which will be left vacant by the exit.

"While the London Heathrow route remains unaffected, the decision by International Airlines to withdraw bmibaby flights from George Best Belfast City Airport is disappointing news," Ms Foster said.

"Understandably, passengers already booked on a bmibaby flight will be very concerned and wondering what their rights are. I would like to reassure that if they are unable to make suitable alternative arrangements with BMI Baby, they are entitled to a full refund."

It is a worrying time for thousands of customers. It is a worrying time for staff.

Brian Ambrose, Chief Executive of Belfast City Airport

Last year, a total of 420,000 passengers - 20% of the airport's business - flew with the airline.

Ms Foster said: "This decision by IAG is also deeply disappointing for the individual workers who may face redundancy."

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Shock and questions over bmibaby exit - Video

EVEN though the Future Music Festival Asia tomorrow is likely to draw over 30,000, theres still a decent enough amount of clubbing activity in the Klang Valley to enjoy should you not be able to make it to Sepang.

SPECIAL EVENT

TOMORROW

SEPANG INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT

SEPANG, SELANGOR

FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL ASIA

With only a day to go, tickets to the Future Music Festival Asia are selling out fast, with the RM388 First Class (VIP) tickets having already sold out.

Slated to be the largest music festival to ever hit South-East Asian shores, and with an overwhelming response from a large amount of ticket sales around the region including Singapore, Indonesia, Australia and India, the massive bill is bound to spawn an influx of both local and foreign music enthusiasts.

Almost 30,000 fans including 6,000 foreigners are expected to descend upon the Sepang International Circuit tomorrow for over 12 hours of pure music artistry.

The Chemical Brothers are set to headline the largest of the four stage set-up, with a stonking three-hour DJ set.

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Special events continue to thrill dance music fans

The life of a superyacht worker

The life of a superyacht worker

The life of a superyacht worker

The life of a superyacht worker

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Editor's note: Bonnie Muddle has worked on superyachts for the past six years. She runs a website giving tips on how to find work on a superyacht. Below she writes for CNN about what life aboard superyachts is really like.

Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- The phone call came from my uncle -- a captain on a superyacht -- offering me a seasonal job as a stewardess. Having absolutely no experience and no idea what the job would entail, where it would take me and how I would fare in rough conditions, I jumped at the chance.

Within the week I had arranged my B1/B2 visa at the American Consulate, booked in the obligatory safety course ( S.T.C.W 95), had a medical, packed up the accumulation of goods a girl at 22 owns and flew across to the USA.

I arrived just in time for the Miami Boat Show armed with a reckless dash of confidence, a hefty dose of enthusiasm and sea sick pills.

Despite discovering that it is indeed true, one can turn a certain shade of green; what started as one season has now turned into six years of life working as a stewardess, and now chief stewardess, on superyachts.

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Porthole confessions: The life of a superyacht worker