Sometimes hotels that try and be trendy end up being too focused on being funky and trendy, and forget that at the end of the day people are looking for quiet, comfortable rooms, and...
European Podcast Award I need your help! Please can you take a few moments to vote for my Tips For Travellers Podcast that has been nominated in one of the categories in the 2011...
When I first moved to London back in 1987, the Pride events were quite small and the march used to have quite a campaigning and political aspect to them as gay men and women...
I have stayed in this hotel now at least 20 or more times over the last few years. I don’t like it particularly, but (sadly) it is one of the best of a bad...
View from Concorde Lafayette Paris Room 2823, originally uploaded by garybembridge. Concorde Lafayette Hotel Paris France is massive. This hotel stands tall on the Paris skyline as, at 33 or so floors, it is...
Mercure Madrid Santo Domingo Spain – Room 101 I was at this hotel for a work meeting. It seems to be a popular combination of business / conference accommodation and tourist hotel as it...
Orient Express Blogger Outreach sign for the event The other evening, I was invited to a blogger event held by the Orient Express group at their check-in lounge at London Victoria Station. It was...
We stayed at the Gran Melia Fenix Hotel in Madrid for a weekend break, and loved this hotel. Gran Melia Fenix Madrid Entrance It is a very stylish, smart and striking hotel with fabulous...
This is a video we made through the inside of the QE2 while we were on a Transatlantic Crossing to New York in December 2004. A video of the decks and the rough seas...
Palacio Real de Madrid (The Royal Palace of Madrid Madrid is a city that over the last 15 or more years I have been in and out of more times than I can remember...
Lancashire based farmer Shaun Hyde has swapped his wellington boots for the world wide web as he launches the first online search and booking system for sheep transportation. Having struggled with ever increasing costs,...
