The Mayor of London’s pledge to spend over £770m on cycling initiatives in London and the explosion of mamils (middle-aged men in lycra) would seem to show that cycling is one of the UK’s most popular forms of transport. Well,…
Sleep Tight. The Bed Bugs Have Been Zapped
Travelling usually involves staying overnight somewhere. Which involves sleeping in a bed, or bunk, or somewhere which the accommodation provider has provided for you. The deal is, you pay them some money and they’ll provide something to sleep on that’s…
Domino’s Pizza Plus Strictly Makes A Winning Combination
Several years ago US supermarkets noticed that if they put beer next to diapers then sales of both shot up. The idea was that husbands stopping to pick up the diapers (nappies to us Brits) on their way home would…
Dubai Airport Shows the Way
Its remarkable to think that in just sixty years, Dubai’s airport has gone from being a 5,900 foot runway made of compacted sand to the world’s busiest airport. Figures just released show that the airport has retained its top global…
Park Your Car Sir? No, The Robot Won’t Need A Tip
Parking cars is never easy. Park too close to the next car and you can’t get out of yours. Park too far away and you might feel guilty about the amount of space you’ve wasted. As well as probable getting…
‘What’s ‘Haggis’ In Chinese?
Scotland. Beloved by the British monarchy since Queen Victoria’s day. And now beloved by the Chinese. Yup. The Chinese have discovered Scotland big time. According to its tourist board VisitScotland, 62,000 Chinese tourists visited Scotland in 2017, a six-fold increase…
Cheer Up, The Worst Day Of The Year Is Over
By the time you might have read this, we’ll have got through ‘Blue Monday’. We hope it wasn’t too bad for you this year? What, you mean you didn’t know you had even endured it? Well lucky you. Clearly you…
Thinking About A Good Value Holiday Destination? Think About Argentina
Headlines that include the words ‘best value travel destinations’ always grab our attention. So we were bound to read an article in the Daily Express recently that suggested which destinations were likely to be the top three for 2019. And…
Think You Were Busy This Christmas? Ask Father Christmas How His Went
So how was your Christmas? How much travelling did you notch up? Whatever the number, we bet you didn’t beat Father Christmas. According to a recent study, he’s estimated to have travelled 41 million miles on Christmas Eve delivering one…
Chillax. You’re On Holiday
Inexperienced drivers can give their passengers quite a ride. Particularly when they change gears. Going up isn’t too bad but changing down can cause quite a jolt. One of our customers wrote to us when he got back from a…