15 May 2017

TfL zone extensions

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I've written a few times before about the downside of PAYG Oyster/Contactless - but one of the upsides (when it works), is that if ...
17 April 2017

Holyhead and Dublin ferry offloading

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When flight prices between London and Dublin and nearby airports (and not so nearby airports) become unreasonably expensive, I quite oft...
25 March 2017

St Pancras International timings

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St Pancras International station is a separate building to Kings Cross - so I never know how long to leave between my tube arriving into K...
13 February 2017

Oyster Revolution

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Last week  Future Cities Catapult  organised a  talk  by  Matthew Hudson  from TfL entitled  The Story of Oyster: How TfL Revolutionised U...
31 January 2017

Contactless is 40% more expensive than Oyster

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I've written before about how Contactless can be more expensive that Oyster - but I've never done the (fairly simple) calculations...
21 January 2017

Transport for London fare increases

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One of my complaints about how companies increase their prices is that they don't normally tell you what percentage they are going up b...
01 December 2016

EI avios redemptions available online

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You can now search for availability and book Aer Lingus flights using Avios on the Avios.com website ... although you probably won't wa...
16 November 2016

Another attempt to get to LYR

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I've written a few times over the last year about planning a trip to Svalbard - but I still haven't managed to execute it ! This ...
05 November 2016

FlyBe check-in options - or lack of

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The email from FlyBe confirming my NOC - BHX flight encouraged me to check-in online, saying that it opened 36 hours before departure ... ...
30 October 2016

short trip to Åre

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I wrote a while ago about trying to arrange a trip to Sweden to ski ... without any direct flights, it wasn't easy to arrange, and so ...