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M11 Hold up, M11 Traffic Jam, M11 Delay, Essex Police Errors, M11 Van fire
Were you on the M11 in Essex on 25th February 2006, travelling either north or south bound? Did you get on to the motorway easily enough, only to find a few miles later that it was gridlocked? Did you,...
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M11 Hold up, M11 Traffic Jam, M11 Delay, Essex Police Errors, M11 Van fire –...
If you have read this blog before you may well remember the entry about being stuck in a traffic jam on the M11… you may even have left a comment about it on here. I complained to the Highways agency...
View ArticleHoliday in the Maldives
This summer we were looking for a break to just simply stop working and relax. As ever, lastminute.com came up trumps and we found ourselves heading to the Maldives and a tiny resort called Ranveli...
View ArticleLateRooms.com, booking a last minute hotel room
I recently went to Rome for three days and unbelievably didn’t book a hotel room until about five hours before the flight. Normally I am fairly good at sorting things like this out well in advance, but...
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Ryan Air, cheap flights, baggage handling and simple mathematics
We all know the story of Mr O’Leary’s Ryan Air and their cheap flights all over the known universe, and I have used them fairly regularly from Stansted without any real dilemmas (OK – a cancelled...
View ArticleNational Express Versus Virgin Trains
Today I was treated to a journey to Leeds on a National Express train. The thing is, I booked the tickets through the Virgin web site, and half expected to travel on a Virgin train. It turns out that...
View ArticleRyan Air, hidden flight charges, economy air travel
Tonight I watched another programme which tore into Ryan Air and gave them a hard time over their pricing policies. Having travelled with Ryan Air more than a few times, and been subjected to their...
View ArticleWhen exactly is ‘off-peak’ travel in London?
It drives me crazy that hardly anyone will tell you this. It seems to be almost a secret. I asked a train guard at Tottenham Hale when he thought the first off-peak train would be, and he couldn’t tell...
View ArticleCountry Ways, Devon holidays
I had to write a little bit about the place I’ve been staying in just outside Great Torrington in Devon, called ‘Country Ways’ . I arranged a very last minute trip to the west country to try to find a...
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