Good morning ‘Waste not, want not’ has been my motto for a long time now. It is amazing how many experiences can become Travel Insider articles – it seems a shame to waste an interesting or learning experience so I try to write about them whenever possible. Our feature article this week about in-car emergency kits arises from one such experience a week or so ago. Hopefully after reading the article you’ll be spared the [...]
North Korea has been in the news quite a bit this year, first with the death of their leader and the succession of his son; and more recently, when our leader went to South Korea and up to the DMZ where he gazed across to North Korea. This quick view from afar was enough for Mr Obama to issue a ritual condemnation of North Korea as a backward country 40 years behind the times and [...]
Good morning Travel has understandably been on my mind this week. Our September North Korea tour had three more people join – at this rate it will soon be that one in every 50 foreigners visiting North Korea in 2012 will be Travel Insiders. Amazing. Shall we try to make it one in every 40? One in every 30? I’ve also written a new piece to add to the growing collection of material about travel [...]
Good morning I spent last week in and around Las Vegas. I’d quickly booked a ‘generic’ hotel on the strip for my stay, choosing based on convenient location (close to a monorail station) and price, and it was only as I was walking through the casino to their lobby that I started to get a terrible feeling of deja vue. Then I realized – oh no, I’m back at the Flamingo. The last time I [...]
Good morning A special hello this week to the Department of Homeland Security’s Social Networking/Media Monitoring Capability and the undoubtedly fine people who staff it. Being as how you monitor blogs that cover bird flu, news and activity to do with our borders, drug trafficking and cyber crime, I guess that means you look forward to your Friday morning read of The Travel Insider, the same as the rest of us. But, you know guys, [...]
Good morning It has been a very busy week this week, but have I now got a surprise for you in return! Last week I mentioned our planned tours this year; and at the time, I had in mind something that I wasn’t sure could be achieved, but which now seems to be possible. I suspect this is a tour which will either fill up in a flash, or be a total disaster with no-one [...]
Yes, you read the headline correctly. The Travel Insider is going to North Korea; and you’re invited to come along too! Fewer than 2,000 people are able to visit North Korea each year, so you’ll become one of an exclusive ultra-small community of people who have actually seen North Korea in person, rather than relying on the not always accurate news reports (usually narrated by people who have never visited North Korea, either). This tour, [...]
Good morning Another year inexorably rolls to its close this weekend, with New Year’s Eve conveniently on a Saturday night, possibly encouraging more of us to stay up for midnight celebrations. If you choose to do so, I hope you’ll have a memorable, fun-filled, and safe celebration. Until then, here’s a lot of great material as our ‘last gasp’ in 2011 : New Year Resolutions Travel Insider January Group Shoot Travel Insider 2012 Touring Schedule [...]
Good morning Are you starting to feel the Christmas spirit yet? Or just the Christmas cold (in my case, both weather-wise and health-wise too)! With little more than a week to go before the pre-Christmas sales transition seamlessly into post-Christmas sales, I hope you’ve got your purchasing plans mapped out for the balance of the year, and also hope that men in brown or purple trucks are bringing a regular flow of boxes to your [...]
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