Archive for the 'Travel' Category

Travel Guides

10/01/2008

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 to keep out [...]

Prices May Go Up (and then Back Down)

11/07/2007

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 your local pump. [...]

Targetting Motorists

22/11/2006

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 [...]

Time Away

1/10/2006

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 [...]

Small Nations

14/09/2006

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 is obsessed [...]

World Cup 2006

26/06/2006

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 [...]

Tips for Visiting Holland

29/05/2006

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 and relatively [...]

Returned

6/10/2005

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 I [...]

Outbound

3/10/2005

I’m off to Antwerp for a couple of days (last minute notice), hence the lack of posts, back Thursday.

Disneyland Hong Kong

17/09/2005

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 [...]