February 23, 2012

Europe Travel

Doing France on your bike in winter

You may be thinking, having read the title of this article, that doing France on your bike in winter would be sheer folly. But not a bit of it. Anyone who has travelled around France during the winter months will be able to tell you that the roads are very often choc a block with [...]

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Things to do in Europe

If you choose to travel thru Europe, you might find out that it can be tricky to see Europe on a restricted budget. Dependent on the exchange rate between your house country and the EU country you are visiting as well as your present fiscal state, travelling in Europe on a tight budget might be [...]

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Budget Travel.

Most experienced and enduring budget travelers and free travel backers have one thing in common : their traveling bags have got quite lighter as the years went by. The practical aspects are simply identifiable. It makes us better prepared to handle and reply rapidly to the different variables present when we get somewhere we have [...]

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What To Bring And What Not To Bring?

As any seasoned traveller will tell you, clever packing is vital. If you are travelling to some new and wonderful destination then the last thing you will want is to be weighed down or held back by loads of luggage, and it can be freeing to travel light and leave all that excess baggage back [...]

Did you use cars on your travels?

Tell me – when you did your world trip or your tour of Asia or South America on your gap year – did you have a car or did you manage without one? And if your answer is the latter like 95% of other serious travellers in those continents – how on Earth did you [...]

Are you ready for a hybrid?

Is there really any good reason not to go green in your motoring habits anymore? You recycle your waste, you walk, cycle or take public transport whenever you can, and you minimise the use of packaging and supermarket bags right? But do you drive an environmentally friendly car? This will make a far bigger environmental [...]

Doing France on your bike in winter

You may be thinking, having read the title of this article, that doing France on your bike in winter would be sheer folly. But not a bit of it. Anyone who has travelled around France during the winter months will be able to tell you that the roads are very often choc a block with [...]

Go hiking in Death Valley

There’s something magical and mysterious about the idea of spending time in a place called Death Valley. Death Valley is one of the United States’ treasured National Parks and it can be both desolate and beautiful. There are plenty of places to go hiking, and the Death Valley National Park website has heaps of suggested [...]

Travel Tips

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What To Bring And What Not To Bring?

As any seasoned traveller will tell you, clever packing is vital. If you are travelling to some new and wonderful destination then the last thing you will want is to be weighed down or held back by loads of luggage, and it can be freeing to travel light and leave all that excess baggage back [...]

Top tips for travelling light

If you’re headed off on a round the world trip, it’s more than likely that you’re probably planning to pack as little as possible as taking a back pack is the most sensible option. When deciding what to take it’s worth spending some time sorting out the most suitable things to take with you. Firstly, [...]

Liverpool has it all

Liverpool is famous for The Beatles and football, but there is much more to the city than that. Whether you are hitting the shops or fancy relaxing with a beer or two and a bite to eat, you are not without choice in Liverpool. The streets are full of shops, bars and restaurants – where [...]

How to Plan a Perfect Family Holiday

There are many things you can do to make your family holiday as stress free as possible, whether you are taking a short flight for a holiday to Costa Blanca or travelling further afield. Every time you take your children on holiday you will be faced by the usual problems: forgotten toys, long flights and [...]

Canadian travel

Few people who visit Canada for the first time have any real comprehension of how big the country is. For those flying in from the UK, Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa – three of the biggest cities in the country – can be reached in about the same time it takes to fly to New York. [...]