Around the Planet

I first had the pleasure of meeting Keith Floyd when I was living in Kyoto, Japan. I was in my lounge, a six-mat tatami room graced with a 29-inch Victor TV which appeared almost oversized in the tiny room, but is pretty commonplace in Japan, where tiny rooms and huge tellies are the norm. I [...]

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If you feel that your given name makes you unwelcome with holiday firm Activities Abroad (if you’re not up to speed with this, see my previous post Green adventure holiday company claims its holidays are “chav-free”), then Travel Republic are welcoming you with a cool 10% discount on your holiday, which in these times of [...]

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Shakespeare once asked, “What’s in a name?” Well, quite a lot if we are to believe one company, as it seems that a fine row has been kicked off in the travel world by holiday company Activities Abroad claiming that the trips it offers are “chav-free”.
For anybody not familiar with the word, “chav” denotes a [...]

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Following my post on David Rogers’ on-the-road travel blog Last Train to Lhasa, I was very happy to finally catch up with the man himself, who has just had a very hectic few months setting up his new web design company. We had a bit of a chat, and I asked David about some of [...]

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It was almost exactly a year ago, with another English winter on its way, that David Rogers decided that it might be more fun to spend winter in Tibet than in his usual London habitat, and so, travelling overland, he headed off east in the direction of Lhasa, Tibet. Thus, Last Train to Lhasa was [...]

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Have you ever fallen in love with the local food of the place you were visiting, but then come home with no idea of how to prepare it for yourself? Then it looks as though On the Menu, established in 2004, have something for you. On the Menu offer specialist cooking holidays that will appeal [...]

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Do you know that one of the most expensive hotels ever built, The Emirates Palace, in Abu Dhabi, offers the ultimate package holiday, coming in at a cool one million US dollars? So while we tear our hair out over the credit crunch, just cast your eye over this little lot, while you dream, drool [...]

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