Showing posts with label United Kingdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United Kingdom. Show all posts

Monday, February 23, 2015

The train fare trick that can save railway user MILLIONS: Website uses secret code to find cheaper tickets by splitting a journey into legs while travelling on same train


Rail passengers could save millions of pounds a year thanks to a secret computer code which finds cut-price fares normally hidden from the public.

Founders of the website TrainSplit.com are helping travellers buy cheaper ‘split tickets’.

This means that instead of buying one ticket for a journey, passengers can break their trip up into legs – offering a lower combined fare while travelling on the same train.

The website’s founders believe rail companies are overcharging passengers on 42 per cent of tickets sold.

And they say their tool can save an average of 22 per cent on the fares listed on train company websites.

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Top 20 new hotel, hostel and campsites in mainland Europe and the UK for 2015


Whether you’re after boutique glamour, a smart hostel or family glamping, we round up the most exciting new and upcoming places to stay in 2015

Fireflies & Figs, Abruzzo, Italy 


Abruzzo, half way down the boot of Italy, on the other side of the peninsula from Rome, is one of the least visited parts of Italy. Famed for its dramatic geography, for years it was isolated by the Majella mountains. In the midst of this wild landscape is Fireflies & Figs, a new glampsite of two yurts (with plans for three more) set on the slopes of a valley, overlooking olive trees, vines and mountain peaks beyond.

Monday, January 26, 2015

Flybe shares fall as London routes face competition

DX.com

SHARES in Flybe have dropped by more than 20 per cent after the regional airline posted a fall in third quarter passenger revenue.

The Exeter-based company now expects to come in a "break even" level for the full year, before tax and one-off charges.

Flybe saw passenger revenue fall by 3.8 per cent to £126.8 million in light of new competition on some London routes. This has come since it launched six new routes to and from London City in October.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

United Kingdom part 5 - Silverwood Colliery. Promotional Film

I uncovered this film gathering dust on VHS and can't quite remember where I got it from.

It's a corporate video produced in the late 1980s to promote Silverwood Colliery. I'm guessing it was made in around 1989 or 1990, ahead of the pit closure programme of the early 1990s that eventually saw the pit cease production and close down for good.

Once you get past the corporate speak it gives an interesting view of the pit above and below ground, and provides a nostalgic look back on the coal mining history of this area.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

United Kingdom part 1 - Walk on Londonderry


Walk on Londonderry - Londonderry - My home town on the Foyle Northern Ireland!

No one is asking you to surrender or even to leave. You are welcome to stay in Ireland as an Irish citizen obeying Irish laws in a soverign Ireland! If you love the the English so much, you are also free to go back to England and her few remaining conquered countries where they want Mrs. Mountbatton as their "Royal" figurehead!. It is sad but every country that wins its freedon from England has to be soaked in Blood first. Blood curdeling thieving and murdering English Barbarians!!

United Kingdom part 2 - Guide to UK

Guide to UK - United Kingdom and Ireland - video travelogue