Travel and Photos

  • Speed Bumps Set to Generate Power

    I am all in favour of finding new ways to generate power. Whether it’s wind farms, solar power, harnessing the waves or even the way I mentioned in a previous post about road heating. I came across another really good way of generating electricity the other day and that is using speed bumps to generate power when…

  • UFO’s Seen Over The Lake District

    It seems that I may have to revise one of my recent blog posts about the possibility of alien life being found. In that post I said that I doubted alien life would ever visit planet Earth. But now, according to the Northern Echo newspaper UFO experts are saying that aliens are landing in the…

  • Making A Beeline For Disaster

    With all this talk of rising sea levels and a changing climate one very fundamental part of our ecosystem is near collapse, and it has hardly had any publicity at all ! Native British bees are dying out and when they go so will flora, fauna and one-third of our diet. Albert Einstein had a…

  • Government Travel Database

    Plans have been unveiled by the government to store in a database the travel plans of anyone going on holiday from the UK. The records of all flight, holidays, ferry and rail journeys will be stored in a database for 10 years. Roughly 25 million trips are taken every year from the UK so the…

  • Holidays Are Important According To Survey

    A recent survey of 2,000 people conducted by holiday company Club Med has found that overseas holidays are the most important luxury for the British public during the credit crunch.Despite fears of people not taking holidays in 2009 it seems that this year could be the year of the “big” holiday as people book holidays on…

  • All Inclusive Holidays Proving Popular

    Sales of All Inclusive holidays accounted for 25% of all holiday bookings made in January according to the latest research. The figures prove that people are budgeting during the recession. The All Inclusive holiday has been popular for many years. The idea started in the Caribbean and has since spread to many other popular holiday…

  • Social Media is Becoming Main Way of Communicating

    The way things are going we will not have to talk to each soon ! TV and computer games almost killed the art of speaking to each other and now with the likes of Facebook, mobile phone text messages, blogs and now Twitter it seems likely that we will lose our ability to use language…

  • Travel Agents Benefit From Stunning Film Locations

    There have been several Bafta and Oscar nominated films released recently that are having a knock on effect on the travel industry. The best selling movie DVD of all time is Mama Mia, which is based on the hit musical about Abba. It is a great movie and if you haven’t seen it then you…

  • More Aliens Exist Than First Thought !

    I have always wondered, like everybody else, whether alien life forms exist. Are we alone in the universe or is there other intelligent life out there is a question that has been asked many times and, no doubt, will be continued to be asked for many centuries to come. New research by an Edinburgh scientist has come…

  • Look Now To See Venus At Its Brightest

    If you look west into the night sky in the early evening you may have noticed a very bright star, and you may have wondered what it actually is. I have noticed it for a few weeks now. It is the planet Venus and it is now the brightest it has been for 8 years.…

  • Snow Chaos – What Happened To The British Spirit ?

    Sorry, but I just have to write another post about the snow as the subject is still causing headlines on TV and in newspapers here in the UK. I couldn’t believe that the BBC 10pm news had the snow problems as its main story last night. They had a reporter, wearing wellies, who was standing…

  • Where to Eat, Stay and Visit in New York

    The credit crunch is having an effect on the cost of shopping trips to New York. But with prices plummeting for flights, hotels and goods in the shops, the slump of sterling against the US dollar is not having as much of a negative affect as you may imagine. This time last year you could…