This edition of the Travel in Europe Podcast asks if the customer service from travel companies could be improved based on two recent incidents. Dodgy Email Claiming to be from Booking.com – this malicious email has been doing the rounds for a couple of months, should Booking.com be alerting people? Lost Train Tickets on East [...]

Our budget break in Scotland from 5 -  10 May 2012 was based on cheap rooms bought in the Travelodge UK December 2011 sale.  I paid £59 for 5 nights accommodation, one night in Dufermline, two in both Inverness & Perth.  You can save on travel if you snap up hotel deals whenever you spot [...]

We had a late lunch at the Oblo Bar & Bistro in Eyemouth in mid April 2012. Our decision to eat at Oblo was based on the fact that they have an all day Bar Menu, which allowed us to have a leisurely walk along the North Sea Trail toward Coldingham without having to rush [...]

The Duddo Stone Circle, also known as the Duddo Five Stones in Northumberland, lies just off the B6354 signposted from the A1 for Etal, just south of Berwick upon Tweed. We’d seen the small brown “stone circle” sign on the bend in the road in Duddo many times when driving past on the way to [...]

On a recent rail journey with East Coast from Edinburgh to Berwick upon Tweed, I witnessed a passenger who had lost his train ticket having to leave the train at Berwick upon Tweed. It was going to cost £152 to buy a ticket onboard the train for the Edinburgh to London journey. The hope was [...]

On the 5th of April 2012, I was on board the Edinburgh to London Heathrow leg of the bmi Queen’s Jubilee tea party flight.  It was 60 days until the celebrations for the 60th Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II were due to start. The flight broke the World Record for the highest tea party in [...]

I stayed in the Earls Court area of London last year. I arrived at my aparthotel too early to get access, so decided to do a reccy of Earls Court restaurants with the dual purpose of finding somewhere to eat lunch and dinner. One of our sons had been seconded to his employer’s London office, so [...]

As it was beautiful Spring day we decided to head for the grounds of Paxton House in the Scottish Borders for a walk and a picnic. As we were walking past the Boathouse, on the banks the River Tweed, my husband Demetrius noticed a poster saying there was an art exhibition inside. Poster outside the [...]

The Bread St Brasserie is in the Point Hotel Edinburgh, just off Lothian Road. When I was staying at the hotel in late February, there was an offer (ending 29 February 2012) where two people could have 2 course meal and either a glass of wine or a soft drink each for £20.12. As I [...]

I had lunch at the Ondine Restaurant Edinburgh in late February 2012, as a guest of Hills Balfour PR. The restaurant is just off the Royal Mile next to the Missoni Edinburgh. Ondine Restaurant Edinburgh I really liked the fish wallpaper. Fish wallpaper at the Ondine Restaurant Edinburgh