It’s coming up on the end of the month and hence another big announcement from the single-minded fanatics at the SNCF (French national railways) and this month it’s Barcelona. Starting in April French TGVs will extend their averous reach beyond the current Catalonian hub at Figueres where for the moment you have to change trains [...]
Taking your family on a holiday is the most beautiful thing you can experience. Spending time with the loved ones will definitely bring joy and a bright smile on your lips. The winter season is the perfect opportunity to choose a ski resort travel destination. Whether you are a master of ski or haven’t even [...]
The European Union is finally stepping in where cajoling, crying, praying and waiting on hold during working hours listening to a loop of instrumental interpretations of Neil Diamond has so far failed. The commission has introduced a clarified bill of air travellers’ rights, updated for the era of volcanic clouds and discount airlines and post-Diamond [...]
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24 April 2013
American Airlines continues its pioneering work in the area of cognitive behaviour therapy with the introduction of a new incentive to travel without cabin luggage. Those travelling with no luggage at all, not even the little shoulder bag to which we all resorted initially to avoid waiting at the baggage carousel for longer than we [...]
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16 April 2013
In the unending and unmeasurable and, probably, unjustifiable race to have the most absurdly expensive collection of coloured canvas hanging in the same place the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) has taken a sudden and substantial lead in the form of a billion dollar gift of representative cubist art from the billionaire philanthropist and [...]
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10 April 2013
As Colorado becomes the latest state to concede a half-assed acceptance of the inevitability of time and tide and begins the slow process toward the legalization of cannabis possession, two Denver entrepreneurs have jumped the gun with America’s first marijuana tours. There appears to be no effort to hide the obvious gimmick — the company [...]
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04 April 2013
There’s absolutely no excuse for any travel blog to be adding to the self-replicating list of packing essentials. But when I saw this while shamelessly looking for ideas to steal I knew it was time for a voice of reason to finally bring a stop to the madness. Bring some clothes, your passport and a [...]
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30 March 2013
If you were planning on travelling within or to or from the US this Spring but are restrained by the financial crisis engendered by the intractable conflict in Washington between the ideologies of those who want to cut spending and taxes and the social safety net and those who are not living in a parallel [...]
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27 March 2013
Gone are the days when international travel was only a dream. Today, you can go anywhere in the world in the shortest time possible hassle free! While some things change, some things still remain the same like the part of being human and making mistakes. No matter how advanced we are technology-wise, there are still [...]
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19 March 2013
Honestly, factually, logically speaking, there are so many places that you can travel to. Our wonderful planet is so diverse an entire lifetime is not enough to explore all the treasures it has to offer. Although it doesn’t take a lot of research to find some place to spend your next vacation, the truth is, [...]
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19 March 2013
No less authoritative source than the BBC reports last month that the strangely anonymously named AirAsia-X will soon be introducing child-free seating. These aren’t child-free flights, just zones reserved on AirAsia-X’s Airbus A330 flights between China, Australia and Japan for adults only. And I think it’s a superb idea whose time has come and the [...]
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05 March 2013
While most travelers are equal to the task of booking flights and reserving hotels and packing and remembering their documentation and navigating foreign cities and customs and toilets, many of us are stymied by the tremendous complexity of deciding where to go. Countless vacations are ruined before they start by this vexing issue. As with [...]
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27 February 2013
As we established last week, prices advertised by the discount airlines are wholly unrelated to what you’re eventually going to pay. It’s not even a guideline. It’s not an approximation. It’s more of a placeholder, a proxy variable for the real price you’re paying once you and your chosen tormentor have completed the nuanced ritual of booking, boarding, [...]
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