Good morning It has been another busy week here at the Travel Insider Galactic Headquarters. To my amazement, I found myself actually liking the latest release of new iPhones, so much so that I’m staring at my now four year old iPhone 6+, complete with cracked screen, and wondering if it is getting close to […]
We love visiting the European Christmas markets, and take Travel Insiders to Europe just about every December for this purpose. Until now, we’ve used a one week river cruise as the central component of these experiences, but this year, we are trying something different – not just different, but also better. A better experience, and […]
Good morning The rapid passing of time is never more noticeable than on this day each year, it being today my daughter’s 14th birthday. As many as you of course know, possibly with grandchildren as well as children, one looks at one’s children with amazement, still vividly remembering what they were like so many years […]
Good morning You surely saw some of the news covering the theft and crash of a Horizon Air commuter plane last Friday night. Alas, what you didn’t necessarily see was much in the way of sensible informed commentary – a lot of what was promulgated by the instant experts was, alas, specious nonsense designed merely […]
Good morning I hope your summer is proceeding apace and that you’re not being impacted by the fires and smoke coming from them that seem to be filling so much of California at present. We have the usual sprinkling of fires here in WA too, but orders of magnitude less than the 300,000+ acre main […]
Good morning We were silent last week; not because there was nothing to write about, but instead due to the matter I’d foreshadowed over several recent newsletters coming to the fore – it turned out that what I’d thought to be ‘only’ computer viruses was actually a determined attack on our computer servers, not by […]
Good morning Before anything else, may I mention our Quad K Tour. We’re now three months out from this exciting travel experience, when we go to Kiev, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan (and optionally to Moldova, Transnistria, and more of Ukraine, too). We get a huge variety of unusual and even, dare I say, unique travel experiences […]
Good morning I returned from my lovely three weeks in Britain on Wednesday, only to discover that while I was flying home, somewhere over the Arctic, my main server had crashed. This changed my plans for Wednesday afternoon and most of Thursday from one of calmly unpacking suitcases and recovering from jet lag to one […]
Good morning Things are slightly panicky here, with me off to Britain on Monday for our Grand Tour of Great Britain. This will be the biggest and most complicated tour we’ve ever done, covering more distance, staying at more places, and seeing more things, than ever before. Happily it is with a great group of […]