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Total Hotel Review: IBIS in Central Amsterdam

Z-Man — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:39:37 +0000

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 [...]

Review: Francofolies at La Rochelle

Dione — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:20:35 +0000

Hello travellers, this is a special heads up for any francophones out there. We’re officially on the countdown for the next insertion of Francofolies music fest, which takes place every year in France. I highly recommend going to La Rochelle during this time (the fest starts 10th July in 2009). Even if you [...]

Mini Rough Guide to Wales Beach Attack Shame

Captain Oats — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:02:41 +0000

I attended the TNT Travel show here in London this weekend; by all accounts a pretty drab and predictable event with booth after booth of crappy keyrings and email spam schemes poorly disguised as ‘competitions’. However, there was one ray of ill humoured sunshine when an enthusiastic Welshman thrust a gem of a free guidebook [...]

Racist Lonely Planet Pictures

Captain Oats — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:42:42 +0000

Have you ever noticed that the pictures in the Lonely Planet are sometimes a tad, well… stereotypical and offensive? Well we have, so this is the first in the series of racist Lonely Planet photos; feel free to send in your own favourites.

We begin at the beginning, that is when [...]