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Category: Travel

  • The Man in Seat 61

    This website was so good I bought the book. The Man in Seat 61 tells you how to travel from the UK to anywhere in Europe and beyond. My first journey planned using this site starts this Thursday, a fairly simple three-train affair from London to Copenhagen, involving my first ever night in a sleeper […]

  • CPH Living

    Thanks to Chris & Christina for being such great hosts for this little trip, and to Martin for his entertaining moustache and other virtues. There used to be a stylish magazine called CPH Living, short for Copenhagen Living. I didn't find it this time, but it was out last time I visited about six years […]

  • Jumbo Jet Hostel

    I've already stayed in The Rygerford floating hostel, a boat moored the middle of Stockholm, but now there a plans to convert a jumbo jet in Stockholm's Arlanda into a hostel. The jumbos would have their seats removed and replaced with 50 sleeping compartments. http://www.thelocal.se

  • Airplane Mode

    Phones and laptops these days have “airplane modes” which lets users carry on using them for non-communication purposes, (working offline, taking photos, playing games etc). Despite this mode being around for several years, it seems that not all flight attendants aren't aware of this mode… as in the case of ATA who tried to arrest […]

  • Travel The World One Couch At A Time

    Couchsurfing.com provides a network of people willing to offer up their couch for the night to travellers. “CouchSurfing seeks to internationally network people and places, create educational exchanges, raise collective consciousness, spread tolerance, and facilitate cultural understanding.” It seems quite simple in operation. Sign up, plan your journey and post it on the website and […]

  • Night Riviera Sleeper

    The Night Riviera Sleeper is Great Western's over night train service to Penzance from Central London. Photo by Jenniedo I've never been on a “sleeper”, but I really like the idea of getting the train from Paddington at midnight after a night out and and waking up in Penzance for breakfast. There was talk of […]