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January 20, 2010
A new poll demonstrates that people are more and more using the internet in order to plan and book their holidays.
A company which specializes in providing homestay experiences around the world, crashpadder.com, has interviewed more than1,200 people.
From the results of the poll, it emerged that a large proportion of the ...
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Tags: BritainBritishholidayinternetonlinetravelwebwebsite
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transport, travel
Posted on
January 13, 2010
Despite Newsweek Magazine naming 2009 the year of the “cougar”— a woman who prefers usually 20 or 30 years younger to them-- it seems that the general public is a lot less accepting of their antics.
One cruise line company has recently demonstrated large numbers of women in their fifiteies coupling ...
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Shows, Events & Gigs, transport, travel
Posted on
January 11, 2010
There’s been a noticeable increase on the price o food recently as farmers are experienced difficult winter crop harvesting conditions and shipments of produces are taking longer due to the slow traffic resulting from heavy snowfalls.
Federation of Small Businesses representative Stephen Alambritis said that there is a concern stemming from ...
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Uncategorized, transport
Posted on
January 08, 2010
The wintery storms hitting Britain have prolonged the mayhem and the mess of transit confusion and cancellations.
It been reported to have been the worst winter weather in 30 years, bringing more transport disruption all over London.
British Airways revealed it had cancelled a number of flights departing from Heathrow airport as ...
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Tags: EurostarheathrowLondonTraintransitWinter
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Experience Days, transport, travel
Posted on
January 06, 2010
The British Government has announced that the country’s largest air travel facility, Heathrow Airport, will be equipped with full body scanners within three weeks and that passenger profiling is being considered by aviation officials.
Travellers using the service of commercial passenger carriers will face lengthier security checks which will include body ...
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Tags: bodyfullheathrowscannersUmar Farouk Abdulmutallab
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transport, travel
Posted on
December 28, 2009
Travellers in both Europe and the US will very probably experience the most important security clampdown since 9/ are facing the biggest security clampdown since the 9/11 attacks after following the Christmas day failed terrorist attempt on a transatlantic Northwest Airlines flight.
UK passengers have been informed that they might experience ...
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transport, travel
Posted on
December 23, 2009
No-frills Irish airline Ryanair recently revealed its plans to have a certain number of flights transferred from large airports to smaller one such as Kerry and Knock in a bid to cut expenditures.
Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary simultaneously claimed that the company is likely to pull further routes out of ...
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Tags: KerryKnockRyanairShannon
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transport, travel
Posted on
December 22, 2009
Eurostar trains, packed with anxious Christmas travellers, headed to and from Paris, Brussels and London yesterday as the rail company started to work through the 75,000 passenger-strong backlog which had been stranded by the weekend long shutdown.
The service, normally high-speed and banded as a European engineering masterpiece, was suddenly halted ...
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Tags: EurostarTraintravel
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transport, travel
Posted on
December 22, 2009
Last week, Russia joined the growing list of countries providing its train passengers with high speed service with the introduction of its first super fast train connecting the city of Saint Petersburg to Moscow.
But it’s been revealed that the route taken by the new line has been the target of ...
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Tags: High-speedRussiaSapsanTrain
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Days Out, Experience Days, transport, travel
Posted on
December 21, 2009
Thousands of UK train travellers have been left stranded following the cancellation of all rail services by Eurostar as it top boss admitted he had no idea when service would resume.
With only a few days before Christmas, this period represents one of the busiest travelling times of the year for ...
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Tags: backlogChristmasEurostarLondonPas-de-Calaispassengers
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transport, travel