The World Bloggers Travel Contest is now live with 18 great prizes on offer with a total value of $20000 (US Dollar) or 16000 Euro.  The prizes include stays in destinations such as Montreal, Dubai, London, Provence, Beijing, San Francisco, Nice, Madagascar, Rio de Janeiro and Zurich. Madagascar by madaportal To enter the World Bloggers [...]

Update 30 August 2010 – The competition winners are 5 Little Elves, an Icelandic family; Hjörtur (Dad), Inga Rós (Mum), and their lovely five kids.  I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who voted for me, I think I ended up in about 460th. The winners of the Greatest Holiday in the [...]

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 [...]

Update 30 January 2010: The competition is now closed. The winner is Carrie-Ann, who correctly answered that the location of my Twitter background photo was Brussels. There were over 30 competition entries with some very good answers to the tiebreaker question “What most appeals to you about visiting Belfast?” Here is Carrie-Ann’s winning response: Belfast [...]

If the idea of bringing in the New Year in Tuscany sounds appealing, then enter the Happy New Tuscany competition. The first prize is a 7 night trip for two between Christmas and New Years staying in Florence (luxury accommodation on B&B basis, international flight, museum passes, New Years meal, airport transfers). The other four [...]

Update 16 November 2009: The lucky winner is Lucy Whittington author of Lucy Loves Australia. Also found on Twitter as @LucyWhittington. Lucy was the only entrant to correctly name the location of my Twitter background photo as the Zone Pyramids, near Marone, Italy (close to my favourite Italian lake, Iseo). However here’s her answer to [...]

Update 24 October 2009: The winner of the Europe a la Carte Twitter competition (3) is  Ashli Sutton Arbo who correctly named the location of my Twitter background photos as Girona, Spain.  Ashli will be spending one week in a one bedroom apartment in Costa Adeje in Tenerife in the Spanish Canary Islands in May [...]

Winner 12 October 2009: The winner of the Europe a la Carte Twitter Competition (2) is Sara of Get Palmd, tweeting as @getpalmd. Sara receives a $100 (US dollar) Hotels.com voucher. Sara correctly idetified the Twitter background photo location as Rovinj in Croatia.  Below is her tiebreaker answer to the question, “What’s most important to [...]

Winner (5 October 2009): The winner of the Europe a la Carte Twitter competition (1) is Cristina who writes for BootsnAll, aka as @WhyGoGreece on Twitter. Cristina wins a one year worldwide subscription to the Indie Travel Podcast Magazine. Cristina correctly named the location of the Twitter background photo as Newquay in Cornwall. She commented [...]

If you’d like to win four meals, worth up to £150 each, all you have to do is join Gekko.com and write a hotel or restaurant review. You must upload your review by 31 July 2009 and your name will be entered into a prize draw. The  competition is open to UK residents aged 18 [...]