Archive for the 'Travel' Category
Travel Guides 10 Jan 2008
This article about the old and new Baedekers travel guides has some great quotes, ranging from the ludicrous: Readers were often advised to take full evening dress, a pith helmet and a medicine chest as well as a large number of suits and dresses. To the insulting: Travellers a century ago were also advised how [...]
Prices May Go Up (and then Back Down) 11 Jul 2007
I caught something in an article on the best days to buy things linked from Lifehacker (which I’m loving more and more) I read a quick bit about buying gas (that’s petrol to us Brits): Gas When to Buy: Thursday, before 10 a.m. Why: The price of oil isn’t the only factor influencing costs at [...]
Targetting Motorists 22 Nov 2006
It’s been a long held belief of mine and many other people in the UK that our government targets motorists as easy prey when it comes to things like emissions and fuel tax. I was reading an article about how they’ve converted a trawler to run on vegetable oil when I cam across this statistic: [...]
Time Away 1 Oct 2006
So, I’ve been up the the Peak District for most of the last week. I had some holiday booked but only recently made up my mind where to go. I figured it was time to start exploring the land I live in rather than automatically flying off somewhere else. The main attractions were Chatsworth House [...]
Small Nations 14 Sep 2006
This is genius, so thanks to Kottke for the link, The Guardian has an article on the Lonely Planet guide to Micronations, which covers the likes of: the Copeman Empire, which comprises a small caravan in Sheringham, Norfolk, which is ruled by a self-styled King Nicholas. Really Nicholas Copeman, he sells knighthoods and peerages and [...]
World Cup 2006 26 Jun 2006
My dad and I were lucky enough to win tickets to a World Cup game through Coca-Cola (actually, my mum won them, but she’s not so much of a footy fan). The game we got tickets for was England v Sweden in Koln (although the English, strangely, refer to it as Cologne), the last of [...]
Tips for Visiting Holland 29 May 2006
Not too long ago I spent 10 months or so living in Holland (AKA The Netherlands) and I’ve decided to try and write down a few things I noticed that may help anyone planning on spending some time there, whether it’s just a few days or a lot longer. Trains Trains are a fast, reliable [...]
Returned 6 Oct 2005
Bear with me here, I’m a touch tired, I was up at 4am (Belgian time) this morning, to be ready for a cab to Brussels airport so that I could catch my flight home at 7:10am so it’s already been a long day for me and I’ve only had 5 hours sleep. Anyway, one lesson [...]
Outbound 3 Oct 2005
I’m off to Antwerp for a couple of days (last minute notice), hence the lack of posts, back Thursday.
Disneyland Hong Kong 17 Sep 2005
You may not have noticed it (I’d never heard of it before yesterday, which is odd as they must have been building it for a while) but Disney opened their first theme park in China (though not on the mainland), Disneyland Hong Kong (doesn’t roll off the tongue as with the others). Nowhere, it seems, [...]