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	<title>The Glove Box Blog from Argus Car Hire</title>
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		<title>Musicians Get their Own Back on Ryanair</title>
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Ryanair doesn’t like violins.  I can’t seem to work out why…
Are they too posh?
Does their sad music clash with Ryanair’s cheap and tacky interiors?
Would they prefer a banjo or are they prejudiced against anything musical?
Do they needlessly take up the space of a paying ticket holder?
Bingo.
Last week, the Incorported Society of Musicians stood up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volkswagen Set to Launch State of the Art Car Radio</title>
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Imagine a journey without a soundtrack. No catchy pop to sing.  No infectious beats to drum on the steering wheel. Not even a news bulletin to argue with. You’d be a whole lot more bored. Not to mention lonely.
The car stereo is one of life’s unsung heroes. It’s there for us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Travel Apps for iPads and Smartphones</title>
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Move over maps. Get lost guidebook.  Take a hike compass.  We’ve found a new, much cooler travel companion….the app.
So says the 2010 Portrait of American Travellers report. According to its findings, three in 10 mobile phone users in the US now own an iPhone or smart phone. Of all of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virgin Blue Set to Transform Australian Air Travel</title>
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Planning a trip to Australia any time soon?
Good news &#8211; your travel itinerary just got a whole lot more flexible.
Virgin Blue, Australia’s second biggest airline has announced a new deal with Etihad.
In a statement, the airline said it would partner Abu Dhabi-based Etihad to reach over 100 destinations.  In doing so, it will become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honeymoon Testers Arrive in Style with Malaga Car Hire</title>
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They’ve finally made it to Malaga, but if their latest Tweet is anything to go by, their car is a little bit worse for wear&#8230;

Over the past week, Argus Car Hire has been sponsoring two of the luckiest people in the world – Denise and Mark Duffield Thomas in their bid to break the record [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tube Strike to Cause September Travel Chaos in London</title>
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Heading to London this autumn?
Hope you’ve booked your London car hire!
The city looks set to come to a standstill if  the first of a series of strikes by Rail Maritime and Transport union and the Transport Salaried Staffs Association go ahead on September 6.
Operations will also be suspended on October 3, November 2 and November [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Watch Chick Flicks on Long Haul Flights</title>
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A recent flight to Mexico City gave me the chance to sit through five films I would never pay to see…
Date Night
Movie Tag Line: “One Ordinary Couple. One Little White Lie”.
More like: Steve Carrell and Tina Fey turn their hand to lame comedy. Predictable.
Valentines Day
Movie Tag Line:&#8221; A Love Story. More or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook is Watching You</title>
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What’s the deal with Facebook Places?
It’s your favourite social networking site’s newest toy.  It’s a bit like Foursquare in that it let’s you “check in” wherever you are.  Being Facebook though, you get to share all your tips for your friends’ future visits.
So is it as good as Foursquare?
Well no, not really – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cheapest Time to Book Car Hire</title>
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The days of last minute car hire bargains are well and truly over.  New research carried out by a leading Japanese economist has found that the cheapest time to book your airline ticket, hotel or car hire is EIGHT weeks before travelling.
Makoto Watanabe’s ‘eight-week theory’ can be traced to his work published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrity Surgeon Dies While Tweeting and Driving</title>
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It has emerged today that Dr. Frank Ryan, plastic surgeon to the stars died tragically on Monday while tweeting and driving.
In recent months Dr. Ryan grabbed headlines when he admitted to performing 10 surgical procedures in one day on MTV&#8217;s The Hills star Heidi Montag.
California Highway Patrol (CHP) say Ryan (50) was driving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Airlines Charges for Front Row Seats</title>
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While European car hire customers roll their eyes at Ryanair’s latest attempts to penny pinch, over the pond US passengers have their work cut out with American Airlines.
The Texas-based airline yesterday announced that it will be charging between $19 (€15) and $39 (€31) for “Express Seats” the seating in the first few rows of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advice for Kiss and Flight Options Customers</title>
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Thousands of British travellers face the prospect of having to rearrange their summer vacations&#8230; sound familiar?
No, you&#8217;re not having a &#8216;groundhog&#8217; moment, yet another UK travel group has indeed gone bust.
Airline industry officials were last night rallying to make sure that all 13,000 Flight Options/Kiss holidaymakers who found themselves abroad got home as planned.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Airport Strikes Called Off</title>
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And exhale. Do you hear that? It’s the sound of the UK travel industry breathing a huge sigh of relief.
The scheduled strikes by Unite airport workers have been called off after talks with unions ended yesterday.
Acas issued a statement late last night saying a settlement had been reached between BAA and Unite, Prospect and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever Happened to…Judith Chalmers?</title>
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The perma-tanned, plummy accented one spent the best part of three decades lighting up our living rooms with tales of lobster lunches and champagne cruises in far flung, sun-bleached islands like St Lucia and Antigua.
In the days before extreme travel shows like Bear Grylls, holiday programming was less about turning your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s Your Bag Worth?</title>
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UK travellers pack their holiday bags with clothes, gadgets and grooming products worth £3,000  &#8211; almost three times the cost of their holiday, a new survey has found.
According to research carried out by Sheilas’ Wheels travel insurance, a traveller takes £325 worth of clothes, £119 worth of shoes, flip-flops and wedges and £75 of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BAA Strike Ballot Latest</title>
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In the  UK, the air travel industry&#8217;s Unite has announced that staff will go out on strike after rejecting a 1% pay increase from BAA.
The industrial action means huge inconvenience for 300,000 passengers and up to 2,500 flights a day will not be able to land or take off at BAA’s airports.
So will airports close?
Yes.  BAA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1800 Hotels Makes A Comeback</title>
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Look out….it’s behind you&#8230;!
Were you one of the hundreds of holidaymakers let down by 1800Hotels.com in July? If you’re nodding your head and #@!$ &#8211; ing profusely, you might be interested to learn that the company has been spending the start of this month crawling its way out of the gutter. Then again, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thumbprints and Car Hire</title>
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When picking up your rental car you might be surprised to be asked for a thumbprint as part of the procedure. Don’t be alarmed &#8211; it’s quite normal now in the car hire industry, so there’s no need to start acting all shifty and criminal-like.
So Why Thumbprints?
Well, in order to protect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving in Malta</title>
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Driving in another country is always difficult at first.  Between rules of the road and local driving customs, you can be left exasperated.  With a little forward planning though, you should feel comfortable enough to drive anywhere.  Today’s focus is on driving with Malta car hire …
When driving in the small towns of Malta [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alicante Airport or Downtown Car Hire</title>
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Hi Fiona
We’re renting a car in Alicante in September.  Just wondering whether it is better to rent a car in Alicante Airport or at an off airport location?
Appreciate your advice,
Chris, Aberdeenshire
Hi Chris
It all depends on your budget and comfort levels.  It is a well-known fact that it is cheaper to rent a car at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Third of Men Afraid of Wife’s Driving</title>
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One in three men say they get nervous when their wife gets behind the wheel, a new UK study reveals.
A third of men say they find themselves stamping down on imaginary pedals because their wife or girlfriend brakes too late.
Others say they can’t let go of the seat.
One in ten admit they were once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lufthansa Launches Luxury Pet Travel</title>
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German airline Lufthansa has upped the ante in the pampered pet stakes with the introduction of a new first-class lounge dedicated entirely to pampering posh pooches and upper-crust cats.
The new lounge at Frankfurt Airport will offer the same high level of care to pets as well as owners.
Small animals can chill out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arguscarhire.com/lufthansa-launches-luxury-pet-travel/</link>
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		<title>Stephen Fry Voted Favourite Travel Mate</title>
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TV funnyman and Twitter guru Stephen Fry has been voted as the number one travel companion that most people would like to take away with them.
The host of QI was number one in a list of celebrities that passengers would like to share a trip with on weekend getaway.  He finished just ahead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arguscarhire.com/stephen-fry-voted-favourite-travel-mate/</link>
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		<title>How to Ensure You Get the Right Rental Car</title>
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Bit of a strange one here – checking you’ve got the right car hire.  You know in your head which one you’ve selected online. You’ve possibly even imagined yourself behind the wheel, but you’d be amazed at how many people get to the pick–up desk and find all of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arguscarhire.com/how-to-ensure-you-get-the-right-rental-car/</link>
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		<title>The Difference Between US and European Car Hire Insurance</title>
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This question comes from a customer called Jonathan. He says:
Hi Fiona
I’m planning on renting a car in LAX this September and taking a road trip around America’s west coast.  I’ve been hearing various things about the difference between insurance policies for Europe and the US.  Can you please clarify the difference? Is there a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.arguscarhire.com/the-difference-between-us-and-european-car-hire-insurance/</link>
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		<title>Re-ignite Your Wanderlust</title>
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Doubts have a funny way of creeping into trip planning. After all, it’s only natural that you should have some niggling concerns before you hit uncharted territory.  Whether you’re plagued by fears over safety, money, homesickness – volcanic ash even, the following inspirational travel quotes should help re-ignite your wanderlust&#8230;
“The world is a book and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ireland’s Magic Roads</title>
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There are some places in Ireland that you’d never see with a tour bus. Ireland’s “magic roads” are a case in point.  Without Ireland car hire, you’d certainly never get to experience the phenomenon of rolling up hill.  Yep, you read that correctly, that’s rolling UP hill.
Only in Ireland!
So What Happens?

You drive to the bottom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sports Radio as Dangerous as Drink Driving</title>
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When you’re driving home from work or you’re renting a car, on your way to a match, do you ever find yourself so engrossed in the drama on the pitch that you find yourself shouting at the radio?
What if I said you shouldn’t be listening to the radio at all? You’d probably tell me to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK&#8217;s Hottest City Break Destinations</title>
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UK cities Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow are fast catching up on London and Edinburgh when it comes to popularity in the city break stakes.
What were once dank reminders of the industrial revolution are now wearing a new ‘hip and fashionable’ crown according to VisitBritain’s latest survey.
Even though London and Edinburgh are still considered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Book Alicante Car Hire</title>
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Alicante car hire offers tourists the chance to make the most of the Valencia region’s second largest town. The town is so much more than a gateway to the Costa Blanca. Over the past few years, Alicante has been given a new lease of life through local regeneration projects.
Alicante is now renowned for [...]]]></description>
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