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Flying from Australia to Europe with a baby: Some thoughts in advance

If you’re already living in Europe and decide to take a European family holiday, you’d be unlikely to take a flight of more than a few hours. I envy you! For my trip to Germany with my four-month-old baby, getting there will take close to 24 hours, coming from Australia. You can probably understand I’m [...]

European travel with a baby: Packing for three weeks

Packing for a European trip used to be easy for me. Now that I’ve got a small baby to deal with, I’m actually writing my packing list well ahead of time. I’ve travelled overnight with my baby on car trips and was astounded at just how full the car was of stuff he “needed”, and [...]

Why I Fly Lufthansa

As you know, I’m a little sick of being charged for every-little-thing when flying. That’s why one of my Europe travel tips is to fly Lufthansa.  Being based in Edinburgh, that means connecting in Frankfurt most of the time, but I’m OK with that rather than dealing with wet trousers because I didn’t have a [...]

Europe a la Carte zugu competition clue: Win free flights to value of £1500

You could win two flights departing from the UK to the destination of you choice, up to a value of £1500 in the zugu competition. zugu.co.uk is a new flight comparison website whose name originates from a word with a travel related meaning. To win, you’ll need to give the most creative answer to the [...]

How Cheap is Your Airline?

Ryanair, everyone’s favourite European airline (tongue-in-cheek) has decided that they will go ahead with plans to charge £1 to use the toilets in flight. Civil Aviation Authorities here in the UK have ruled the change in policy isn’t against the law. Ryanair have already been criticised for additional fees and charges such as the £5 [...]

5 Reasons Why I’d Rather Travel Europe By Train

I don’t think there is any doubt that flying is more inconvenient than ever – from terrorists to the rude & annoying airline staff that are just as bad as terrorists, it is a real wonder anybody bothers to fly these days. But yes – sometimes you have to. But in Europe, a lot of [...]

Ryanair promotion 22 – 25 January 2010: Cheap flights to Budapest, Carcassonne & Linz

Ryanair’s current 30% off fares UK promotion runs from 22 – 25 January 2010 for fights departing from 5 February – 25 March 2010. You need to book at least 14 days in advance. I’ve highlighted some of best places to visit in Europe which are accessible with these cheap Ryanair flights, quoting the lowest [...]

£1 Ryanair flights 1 October – 10 December 2009

The Ryanair £1 ticket promotion is back for bookings until 17 September. And yes the £1 tickets really do exist, I’ve just booked a £2 return ticket from Edinburgh to Pisa for travel in November. There are £1 flights up for grabs for the period 1 October – 10 December 2009 with travel black out [...]

Good availability of £1 Ryanair flights to book by 17 July 2009

I’ve just been on the Ryanair site to check availability of £1 flights in their latest one million £1 ticket promotion. I had a quick search for flights from Edinburgh, my local Ryanair hub, departing around the 29th of September for stays between 3 – 7 nights. I was able to find several flights from [...]

Is Ryanair’s £5 per person online check-in fee legal?

When I read that Ryanair will charge a £5 per person per flight online check-in fee for all bookings made from 20 May 2009, the first thing that crossed my mind was, is this legal? My understanding was that airlines had to include all compulsory costs in the price displayed on the website.  You can’t [...]

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