07 September 2017

Redeeming Avios in Club

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As long as you fly once a year with your British Airways Executive Club number tagged to a flight, you gain the benefit of much lower taxes...
06 September 2017

Preikestolen

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as part of my trip to Svalbard ... i flew into StaVanGer ... and hiked up Pulpit Rock last time i did it, we had a hire car - which ende...
04 September 2017

LYR trip - finally

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i've written a few times (actually four ) about planning a trip to Svalbard ... so i thought i should explain how i actually finally...
21 June 2017

Avios redemptions on EI / BE

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I wrote previously about the extortionate taxes/fees charged by Avios redemptions on Aer Lingus flights ... which included 41 gbp from Dub...
20 June 2017

Don't use Oyster from St Pancras to Stratford

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I needed to attend a talk at one of the hotels adjoining Westfield Stratford, and having recently used a Javelin train from St Pancras to K...
19 June 2017

London things to do - Updated

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It may not be quite travel ... but there's lots of things in the city that I want to do ... museums or places that i've n...
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...