I am attending the Business Scotland Show in Edinburgh on the 1 & 2 November. I mainly want to attend the seminars to get different perspectives and new ideas. I think it can be very isolating working at home on the computer for hours in your own business. You can get a bit stale and [...]
I lived in the Stirling area in central Scotland for 18 years. Stirling is not one of the top destinations in Scotland, however I think it should be. It has a majestic castle, the Wallace Momument and the site of the Battle of Bannockburn. The city is framed by the Ochil Hills to the north. [...]
I have just finished my guide to Vicenza. Vicenza is a beautiful small city in northern Italy, Vicenza is also know as the city of Palladio, as the famous architect designed many buildings in the city. Although it is such a lovely and interesting city it is not very well known in the UK. Why [...]
Ryanair are being forced to offer passengers compensation for delayted flgiht and more rights with regard to lost or damaged baggage. Easyjet say they have already complied with these changes. I have very mixed feelings about Ryanair. They have certainly greatly expanded the choice of direct flights from Scotland. It you travel midweek off peak [...]
The Italian government is to allow Italian cities and towns to charge a tourist tax of up to 5 euros per day. This money would have to be spent on local tourist services. Each city can choose whether to levy the tax, it could only be for certain times of the year, exemptions could be [...]
I had vaguely heard of blogs and didn’t give it much thought until a few days ago, I received an email request from a postgard student doing a dissertation on blogs as a marketing tool in the travel industry. So I thought why not give it a try. As a small business owner one of [...]
I read an article in a business lifestyle magazine extoling the virtues of blogging. Even Bill Gates is saying blogging the way forward for business.. He’s talking about Microsoft. a giant company, does this still hold good for a small independent business? I have been sending out (almost) monthly newsletters from my website, europealacarte.co.uk. for [...]
