Posted on January 18, 2012 by Fiona Hilliard

  We thought we’d brighten up your Wednesday by introducing you to five more class clowns from the travel blogging community.  So without further ado…   6. Iain Mallory ( Mallory on Travel)   Don’t expect sugar-coated travel tales from real life action man Iain Mallory.  Through his blog, Mallory On Travel, he has fine-tuned [...]

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Fiona Hilliard

Foreign tourists and business travellers have a tendency to favour the south of England, primarily London, meaning that they miss out on a whole host of fantastic attractions, historic sites and great value hotels available in the north. Even those visitors who are brave enough to venture a little farther than the confines of the [...]

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Fiona Hilliard

Flood watch: For now, those holidaying in the Thai capital are safe, but that isn’t stopping local authorities from feverishly trying to stop Bangkok from being flooded by the tides hitting the north of the country. Already, hundreds of workers have been drafted in to construct barrier walls on the edge of the city which is [...]

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Fiona Hilliard

If  you’re about to pick up car hire in Malaga (or indeed anywhere in Europe) for the first time, you may want to prepare yourself for some nasty hidden charges.  These charges may not be enforced by all car rental companies, but they are worth knowing about all the same…especially when they can be so easily avoided! [...]

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Fiona Hilliard

Gutsy Traveler founder and National Geographic author, Marybeth Bond is one of  the web’s leading authorities on women’s travel. Recently she was kind enough to take part in an interview with the Glove Box Blog to offer her top tips for female travellers…     Q1.      What do you think is the main difference between [...]

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Fiona Hilliard

EasyJet has just announced details of its 2012 schedule.  The airline will now be offering 110,000 flights in 300 destinations.  That’s an extra 18 million seats looking to be filled between March 25 and September 2 2012. Extra seats have been added to destinations such as Barcelona, Alicante, Madrid and Rome, while the routes are [...]