Travel and Photos

  • Is This The Best Travel Complaint Letter Ever ?

    There is an e-mail doing the rounds at the moment which is a letter of complaint sent to Sir Richard Branson from a Virgin Atlantic customer. It is considered by many to be the world’s funniest complaint letter. Here we reproduce it in full courtesy of The Telegraph.          Dear Mr Branson REF: Mumbai to Heathrow 7th…

  • Dine Out For 2p, But Only If You Have No Shame !

    Customers of a London restaurant can pay what they think the food is worth ! That’s right, a London restaurant owner has scrapped all the prices on his menu and said that his customers can choose anything on the menu and afterwards pay the amount that they think the meal is worth. As a result…

  • Tough On Crime, Tougher On Grime !

    It seems that every step we take and every move we make in our towns and cities is watched by CCTV cameras. We are one of the most watched nations in the world. All in the name of crime prevention we are told. However, it seems the police are getting some of their own medicine…

  • Mobile Phone Chargers To Be Standardized

    At long last the European Union have done something useful. I have always been of the opinion that there are far too many politicians and so called decision makers ruling all our lives. Bureaucracy is the scourge of society but it seems too many people want to be the boss rather than actually produce something…

  • Amazing Australia Offer

    Here at Global Holidays we get dozens of special holiday and flight offers everyday. It would take us hours to list them all so we have to choose the best ones. This offer for flights and a hotel in  Australia stands out as being an absolute bargain, so here are the details below. All flights are…

  • Amazing Photographs of Australia Fires

    The recent bush fires in Australia were terrible and to think that some people were suspected of deliberately starting the fires is beyond comprehension. Like most people I saw the images on the TV news but now I have found some amazing high definition photos of the fires. Click the link below and prepare to be…

  • In Four Years We Will Find Aliens Say Experts !

    I have written one or two blog posts recently about UFO’s and about the probability of alien life on other planets and now experts speaking at a science conference in the USA think we could even find the first inhabited planet in the next FOUR years ! The so called experts say that our galaxy is…

  • Travel Agent Sends Holidaymaker to Wrong Country !

    An interesting article appeared in The Times recently which shows that you should choose your travel agent very carefully. A woman booked her flights to Costa Rica with the travel agent Thomas Cook in Bristol but ended up in the wrong country as the agent had booked her to Puerto Rico instead ! Every airport in…

  • Valentines Day Tips For Men !

    It’s Valetines Day and just in case there are any men out there who don’t know what to do on Valentines Day I found some Valentines Day tips and advice on You Tube. Take a look at this short video and you won’t go wrong ! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK-dUnqHei8&w=425&h=344]

  • Beat The Jobs Freeze In The Antarctic !

    I didn’t apply for that job, advertised recently, on an uninhabited island off the coast of Queensland, Australia. I think they have had thousands of applicants and I certainly would have loved a spell on there. As long as I had my guitar and a supply of beer I would have been happy ! Hot on…

  • Psychiatrists, Takeaways & Lap-dancing, The Link Is?

    There are many ways to look at what is happening within a nation. You could conduct a survey but one of the best ways is to look at the most popular types of businesses that are being requested by telephone directory enquiries. The telephone directory 118 118 recently released some fascinating statistics which give us…

  • Travel Insurance – Don’t Forget It !

    When you go on holiday it is very important that you have good quality travel insurance, but new research from American Express has found that nearly a quarter of Brits intend to cut out travel insurance this year in order to save money. The survey found that many people are looking at last-minute summer holiday…