As budget travel is so very much on the agenda this year, you may be interested in my experiences with the travel networking site, Hospitality Club. It’s a website designed to bring travellers and hosts together to exchange hospitality, whether it be travel information, a drink or meal or free accomodation. Once you sign up, [...]
Russia’s Siberia seems to have a really unfair reputation of being some freezing nightmare of a place that nobody would want to visit, but I promise you that Siberia is actually a great European destination. One of the best Siberia attractions is Lake Baikal, a lake with a lot of impressive statistics – it’s not [...]
If you’ve been wandering the world for a while now you’ll have started to notice the changing trend of backpackers. These days the unshowered, subsistence-level travellers are hard to find and hostels have become home to backpackers in quality clothing and bristling with electronics. These are the new generation of backpackers: the Flashpackers. geek charme [...]
Well if last week I had put money on my own prediction tha the value of the pound would soon increase against the euro I could have made a tidy profit as the UK pound has increased by around 10% in value over the last week, 3 – 10 January 2009. Yesterday 1 UK pound [...]
As you probably know, bike is the only way to travel in Amsterdam – it is quick, efficient, and environmentally friendly. However, it can be difficult to decide where to take your bike out for a spin. I’ve mentioned Amsterdamse Bos before, but there are other great places to spend the day, including: Art in [...]
It’s official, Bristol is one of the top 10 cities to visit in 2009, according to guide book publisher, Dorling Kindersley. I have lived in Bristol for the last 15 years, and I always knew that it was not only a fantastic place to live, but a great destination for a city break. It’s also [...]
My standard (and preferred) method of discovering a European city is to stumble around a bit and just see what I come across. When I was in Lübeck, northern Germany, my stumbling led me to this cheerful-looking devil statue. He made my trip! This devil can be found outside the Marienkirche (St Mary’s church) in [...]
The Summer 2010 Travelodge UK £9 room sale launches on Thursday 7 January 2010 at 06.00. It really is a case of the early bird catching the worm, if you want to bag some of these £9 rooms bargains, you’ll need to get online early and be prepared to spend some time on the Travelodge [...]
Welcome to the January 2009 edition of the Europe Travel Carnival kicking off the New Year with a great selection of posts selected to inform, inspire and entertain readers who love travel in Europe. Accommodation In the World’s First Zero Star Hotel posted at So You Want To Be a Banquet Manager…. we read about [...]
I must say I’ve been surprised by the recent fall in the value of the UK pound against the Euro. At the beginning of December 2008 the exchange rate was 1.2 euro to the UK pound. Now one month later, at the beginning of January 2009, the rate is standing around 1 euro to 1 [...]
