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What Have You Got in Your Pockets | Part 2

Sometimes avoiding a scam is just about making sure you pick the right taxi to get into. For example, the metered taxi cabs around Russia are complete rip-offs and are mostly run by the local gangs. All the ones around the airports are controlled by organised crime and are delighted to pick up [...]

Bed Weters in The Netherlands

Every day life in the Netherlands has brought me many more a giggle over the past year than I had initially expected, and this was, and still is my number one! Every country suffers from badly translates signs, poorly marketing gimmicks and naturally a different way of addressing their culture, but this surely [...]

Total Hotel Review: IBIS in Central Amsterdam

Corridor from lift towards my room

This is just a quick one, just wanted to point out the lunacy that is the IBIS, billed as being near Amsterdam Central station. I needed a place to stay for one evening in Amsterdam in order to make a connecting flight to South America. I was meeting [...]

What Have You got in Your Pockets? | Part 1

 

Just because the authors on this here travel website are Gentleman and Lady adventurers, doesn’t mean we’ve had an easy upbringing. The Captain was brought up in a gutter with 27 other families (it’s part of why his favourite number is four) and the Major spent 8 years thinking a [...]

Munich Loves You. And Football. And Bells.

This is just a quick post about a two day trip to Munich. It’s a nice city and if I don’t write this today, there will be no articles for August 2009.

"I don't trust the guy in the corner looking like Viggo Mortensen, Mr Frodo."

My good chum, The [...]