I’ve been looking forward to this trip for ages, dreams of breaking the bank and coming home with a million dollars. How you do that I don’t know since you’re only allowed to take $10,000 out of the country, but since there were five of us travelling, I guess spreading it around the group would have halped ease some of the customs worries. Still we were on our way to the infamous Las Vegas strip to enjoy a 4 night 5 day stay in one of the city’s biggest and brightest hotels the Venetian. The idea of the place conjours…

Damn blast those merchant bankers who called in about 1 percent of their outstanding loan and flushed the holiday company XL down the toilet and messed up thousands of people’s holidayls two weeks ago. Thank’s to those buggers, I’m not going on holiday today to the seemingly wonderful island of Grenada! The writing was on the wall couple of weeks earlier when rumours started to circulate that XL had cancelled their Caribbean long haul flights as of November 2008. Despite the disappointment of not travelling to spend a week in the sun, doing some diving, some drinking and some travel…

Research carried out by a UK travel related firm (I’ve still to find out which) has found that more British people are opting for a lifestyle where they work at home, but live in another country. These lifestyle worshipers opt for living in different parts of Europe or even in North Africa and a commute to work via an airplane. In an effort to improve their quality of life, see more of their family and get on the property ladder, these Britons are willing to put in up to 6 hours commuting from their chosen abodes to the UK’s major…