Posted by: boydie on: June 8, 2009
Our Attractions
This is the centenary year for the RZSS and it is going to be a massive and exiting year at Edinburgh Zoo with our attractions and wide selection of rare international animals.
The rainbow lorikeet birds are stunning up close.
Learn about evolution whilst having fun watching the chimpanzees in their innovative interactive home.
Here at Edinburgh [...]
Posted by: andrewmcd on: May 15, 2009
We’ve spoken about our love of Brighton before and the chance has come to go and visit again.
Yes, amazingly its that time of year again – the traditional UK May bank holiday is almost upon us. If, like us, you are looking for a great traditional ‘beach and candy floss’ weekend then you could do [...]
Posted by: boydie on: April 22, 2009
The Caribbean tourism and hotel industry is standing up against the UK’s decision to apply U.K Air Passenger Duty, as of November 2009 passengers travelling from Great Britain will face paying an extra £50 per person per economy flight and £100 per flight per person per higher class flights and are likely to be increased [...]
Posted by: andrewmcd on: February 12, 2009
These days it seems that the ‘micro-blogging’ tool Twitter and its community are never far from the headlines. For anyone out there who has managed to avoid it so far, Twitter is a Social Networking site that allows users to provide updates on whatever they happen to be doing via either their mobile phone or [...]
Posted by: andrewmcd on: January 28, 2009
Hello everyone, firstly we apologise for not posting for a while – a belated happy 2009 to everyone. Anyway, on with business, and it seems these days that all we seem to hear is bad news. The effects of the “Global Financial Crisis” are beginning to filter through into almost every area of society. Obviously, [...]
Posted by: andrewmcd on: October 6, 2008
The Good Hotel Guide has published it’s Top 10 Hotels in the UK for 2009, and as always there are some fantastic sounding UK hotels on the list. Focussing on independently owned hotels, the guide considers the most important factors of any hotel to be the quality of cooking, warmth of welcome and location. We [...]
Posted by: andrewmcd on: September 19, 2008
The ex-first minister of Scotland Jack McConnell tried to brand Scotland the ‘Best Small Country in the World’. Although this rather patronising slogan has since been shelved, the truth is that McConnell was not far off the mark – Scotland is a fantasic place to visit. It offers something for everyone – here are some [...]
Posted by: andrewmcd on: May 30, 2008
After posting last week about the Brighton Stag expedition, i decided to have a look around some other travel blogs to find some similar posts. Amongst the best were this one detailing an experience in Antigua which is very well written and entertaining. On a totally different slant, I also enjoyed this blog on Stirling [...]
Posted by: andrewmcd on: May 23, 2008
Negotiating the hotel deal
Sorry-its been a while since our last post, we’ve been busy partying!
Last weekend was my cousins stag weekend in Brighton and it’s only now that im beginning to enter the real world. As it was felt that I had some expertise in the area I was put in charge of finding the [...]
Posted by: nicknick82 on: January 21, 2008
a good hotel offer, I think.
I checked my inbox on Saturday to find a lovely little treat from De Vere; De Vere are offering 2 for 1 on all their deluxe UK hotels. From reading the email it would seem that they are extending their winter offers, this one expires on February 29th.
I had a [...]