I think when you’re young it’s all too easy to catergorise your home town as a dump and you can’t wait to get out of it. I was born in the city of Dundee but only lived there until I was five years old. When I spoke of my place of birth it was in [...]

Budget carrier Ryanair has introduced 50 new routes for 2008. From my perspective there’s nothing of great interest at my 2 nearest airports, Newcastle and Edinburgh. No new flights from Newcastle. There are 5 new Ryanair destinations from Edinburgh but only 2 that aren’t already served by other carriers, Bremen in Germany and Marseilles in [...]

Everyone wants to get value for money when they travel but you have to ask yourself how low you are willing to go. What is budget travel? To some people, others budget travel may appear pretty upmarket. Personally I’m an in-betweenie, I’ve never been into backpacking and camping or staying in hostel dorms but neither [...]

I don’t know much about Flybe.com so I decided to have a look at their site. I concentrated on the flights that were of most interest to me i.e flights from Edinburgh or Newcastle as I live between these 2 cities. The majority of their flights are to UK destinations. Flybe do have flights to [...]

I discovered Erica’s blog on Travel Rants where Darren had named Blissful Travel as his favourite “Travellers Blog”. 1 What is the aim of your blog?The aim of Blissful Travel is to provide travel tips, information and news from the travel business for people interested in travelling. I have a preference for writing about cities, [...]

London has been voted the best holiday destination in the world in by travel agents. There are several cities in Europe that I would rate more highly than London such as Rome and Madrid. I have to say that London was looking better than for many years when I visited last month. The London Eye [...]

The Times Style Magazine and Nescafe Dolce Gusto have teamed up to offer a first prize of a luxury city break for 2, including spending money, in an online prize draw for UK residents.  Ten runners up will win a coffee machine and a luxury crockery set. Rome and his churches by Giampaolo Macorig

Would you like some free publicity for your travel blog?  Darren at Travel-Rants.com is organising a Travel Blog Carnival. If you’ve written a great post about travel that you’ve published on your blog in the last 7 days, email the post to travelblog.carnival(at)gmail.com. Every week one the member of the Travel Blog Carnival Group will [...]

I think that Olivia’s blog High Culture on a Low Budget is fantastic. The blog highlights that you don’t have to break the bank to soak up culture in Europe.  Of course, being Scottish, I like to get value for money. 1 What is the aim of your blog? High Culture on a Low Budget [...]

Eurostar has been voted the best rail network in the world in the 2007 World Travel Awards. Paris and Brussels can now be reached in 2 hours from the new St Pancras terminal in London. St Pan Station by chakchouka Eurostar’s Tread Lightly campaign has offered carbon neutral journeys at no additional cost to passengers [...]