Miscellaneous Weekly Roundup
After a slow year last year (and lots of great value bargains) it seems that river cruising in Europe is booming once more. Most of the river cruise companies are reporting strong bookings and many cruises are already …
Miscellaneous
Most photographed places in the world
Here’s a fascinating overlay that can be added to Google Maps or Google Earth. It has been created from pictures submitted to the Panoramio website. These pictures are all coded with the location where they were taken, and …
Survey : 15% have had sex while driving
Leading Bluetooth headset manufacturer Jabra has just released the results of a survey about what we all do when we’re driving – other than keeping both hands on the wheel and concentrating on the road ahead, that is. …
Free Travel eBooks
The travel planning and ideas website, Tripbase, has released a series of seven free travel guide books. These are all in PDF format, and downloadable from their website. There is a generic travel tips book, and …
Miscellaneous Weekly Roundup
The website hotels.com has just released a list of what it deems to be the top ten hotels made famous in the movies. It is a curious list, with some very notable omissions, most particularly the Hotel de …
33% bigger new bus carries fewer passengers
London’s classic Routemaster doubledecker bus was loved by Londoners and visitors alike. A new design to replace the older Routemaster is ugly and inefficient. Why not simply build more Routemasters?
Amazing airplane/safari-mobile
Here’s an amazing plane concept. If you have always wanted to go on an African Safari, or indeed to go to out of the way places anywhere, but have not liked the thought of roughing it, bouncing around …
Ash avoidance – problems and semi-solutions
The ash problem from the Iceland volcano continues to give occasional problems in selected parts of Europe. These ongoing issues that arise and then go away again on a semi-random seeming basis, point to an …
Tip : Put a Shoe in Your Hotel Room Safe
Do you use the in room safe that most hotel rooms provide these days? If you don’t, and you lose something in your room, you may well find that the hotel refuses to accept liability. But if …
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