Wizzair and me, we’re not getting along too well. We’ve never been close, but these days things are bad. Really bad. I’d successfully avoided flying Wizzair whenever possible, but last week I had no choice. It’s the only airline flying directly from Skavsta (which pretends to be Stockholm) to Gdańsk (which is actually in Gdańsk [...]
This morning’s lead story on Guardian Money talks about the increased awareness of Visa Electron card with comment from me and a link to Europe a la Carte. The Saturday Guardian Money picked up on my recent article about how to avoid Ryanair’s tripling of debit card fees by paying fee free with a Visa [...]
Zadar is one of the most beautiful coastal cities in Croatia and is located in Northern Dalmatia. Zadar is known for its old town, which is inside of big walls and used to be surrounded by a moat, but is now filled in. Inside of the old town there are no cars or bikes, as [...]
Copyright Andrew Hayes The Guardian has announced the results of its reader poll of 2008, and for the ninth year running, Edinburgh has topped the list as favourite UK city! Their awards cover all aspects of travel, though, from airlines to tour operators to travel website. You can visit the original article here but a [...]
You can read the transcript of the live online discussion, “The Future of the Travel Blog” below. Here are the panelists bios and their predictions for the future of the travel blog emailed to me before the live blog took place. A big thank you to the panelists and guests for their contribution to the [...]
If you drive along the foreshore of the Danube River in Bratislava, Slovakia, one of the most noticeable things will definitely be the Novy Most, or New Bridge. It’s quite high-tech looking and not at all in keeping with the surrounding Bratislava Castle or Old Town, not to mention the fact that most of the [...]
I received an email today from Creative Weblogging to inform me that my contract to write 5 posts a week for their Wandalust UK travel blog had been cancelled with immediate effect. I was rather taken aback mainly because I’d already written and scheduled posts for the next eight days. It’s nothing personal as evidently [...]
We spent a couple of days in Perthshire from 18 – 20 October 2008 hoping to see the beautiful Autumn colours. We were lucky with our timing and did catch some stunning colours especially at The Hermitage in Dunkeld. The Hermitage was created as a landscape garden by the Duke of Atholl, complete with two [...]
I came across Stella’s European Travelling Advisor in a Google Alert which picked up her piece about European Festivals in October. I always like to promote other sites which feature useful and interesting content about travel in Europe for readers, so I contacted Stella to ask if she’d do a guest interview for the Europe [...]
I hope you’ll excuse me, but I’d like to delve slightly away from the practicalities of travel for this post and onto a bit more of the philosophy. Or perhaps the psychology of it. Right now I’m slowly getting organised for a trip to Japan. This is my first real journey to Asia, a surprising [...]
