I came across the Essential Travel online magazine and blog in a press release detailing the UK based travel insurance website’s redesign to include more tips and advice for travellers. I was impressed by online magazine which is published monthly. The October 2008 edition had articles about financial protection for your holiday, Miami, Florida and [...]
Alexisonfire Tickets by © Natalia Balcerska Photography At the risk of becoming the geeky web girl of the blog, I wanted to point you towards another great free online tool: Eventful. I found this when getting to know TripIt, the travel organising site, and I have fallen in love. Eventful is simple, quick and gives [...]
In my ongoing quest to conquer and make sense of the web’s online content, I landed my browser (currently Google Chrome, for those of you interested) on Eurocheapo. Their tagline, ‘we’ve been there’, inspires confidence, and for good reason. The site has city guides on various European destinations, large and small, and these guides are [...]
Choosing a Hotel is Difficult – Copyright by Andrew Hayes In preparation for some late-autumn travel and the busy Christmas period, I was pointed in the direction of Hotelscombined to search for good rates on hotels. I always have a hard time with hotels because of all the options available – do I want to [...]
Right now I’m sitting in a campsite in Taesch, Switzerland, hoping for the weather to clear and to get my first glimpse of the Matterhorn in real life. It isn’t looking good unfortunately. Fortunately, though, the campsite has WiFi so I can let people know where I am, what I’m up to and that the [...]
Amsterdam Houses – Copyright Andrew Hayes A post this week slightly off topic, but I could not resist sharing this interesting find. If you are like me and travelled a lot before the dawn of digital cameras, you have hundreds of photographs stuffed underneath your bed, unorganised, only flipped through on the random occasion. Scanning [...]
Generally, I’m a very laid back traveler. When flying I’ll have the plane tickets booked in advance but often not much else. However right now I’m in the middle of planning a big trip – four people, two continents, three months. I’ll have people joining up and leaving again; planes, trains, cars and ferries to [...]
We’ve all had those moments – standing in a foreign city, knees squeezed together as you try and work out if you have enough money to buy a coke so that you can use the toilets of the cafe across the street. Public toilets, as has been discussed here before, can be a bit of [...]
Sometimes, I tend to over-analyse things. This is usually the case when I am searching for cheap airfare! I previously reported my thoughts on Dutch website cheaptickets.nl but I do have another trick up my sleeve. Kayak is a slick and easy-to-use website that allows endless amounts of manipulation to your search results to help [...]
I happened upon the website http://www.adayin.com which claims to sell ‘free vacation guides’. Upon further investigation, I have to say I am very impressed! At first I thought they only have guides for Northern Europe and the Mediterranean, but this is simply a bug with the display map as a number of central European destinations [...]
