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Thinking of a weekend break in Dublin but not quite sure about when to pack your bags?
You could do a lot worse than the weekend of September 23rd to September 26th 2010…
Why?
Well, back by popular demand is Arthur’s Day.
Arthur’s Day
“To Arthur!!!!” OK, so we’re no longer celebrating the 250th anniversary of Guinness, but [...]
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Yesss…sweet vindication…as if to prove me right about staycations being so ‘last year’, Tesco has just released results from its latest Travel Money survey.
The good news is…
Holiday hotspots in Turkey and Cyprus work out cheaper for a UK family of four than a stay on the Sussex Coast in Brighton.
The cost [...]
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The ‘staycation’ which saw millions of UK and Ireland holidaymakers staying put in the country for their holidays seems to have taken a bit of a backseat this year.
According to Amazon.co.uk, travel guide books about Orlando, Florida and Morocco have been flying off the shelves in recent weeks.
The website published its top ten [...]
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Ryanair is changing its baggage rules. AGAIN. I can hardly keep up.
So what is it this time?
Well, they’re doing us passengers a big favour by letting us check-in a whole 20kg instead of 15kg for our first piece of luggage. But it being Ryanair, there is of course a sting in the tail.
If [...]
Tacky they may be, but at the end of the day these are the dodgy places (and photos) you’ll want to share with all your Facebook friends. You know it!
Hobbit House, Downtown Manila, The Philippines
For over 35 years, Jim Turner, a former US Peace Corps volunteer has been running Manila’s ‘Hobbit House’, a JRR Tolkien themed [...]
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Writing this blog, I’m forever looking at scenic drive guides, road-trip ideas and recommended itineraries but I have to say I’m pretty impressed with the Irish Independent’s latest series of travel articles that examine how to get off the beaten track from Ireland’s newest motorways.
It’s a really fresh approach to a rather oversubscribed subject. This [...]
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In the aftermath of Iceland’s volcanic ash nightmare most European countries were happy enough to toddle off and file the whole sorry incident away as an “Act of God”.
Not cash-strapped Greece however – they’re so hungry for your business that they’re now offering tourists an ‘insurance policy’.
The Greek government is desperate to repair [...]
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Hi Fiona,
We’re planning to rent a car in Alicante in July. There will be four of us in total, myself, my wife and our two children, aged 5 and 3. We’d prefer to share the driving during the trip – will this increase the cost much, we’re a bit restricted by budget? Colm, [...]
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Say what you like about foreign drivers and their annoying habits, driving abroad is worth it in the end. Renting a car really does shatter all preconceived ideas about a place. Let’s take Alicante car rental for example. As a holiday destination, Alicante has all the ingredients for a relaxing, sunshine-on-tap type of break, [...]
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Say what you like about foreign drivers and their annoying habits, driving abroad IS worth it. In fact, I would even go as far as to say that renting a car on holiday shatters many preconceived ideas about a place. Let’s take Alicante car rental for example. As a holiday destination, Alicante has all the ingredients for [...]
