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SandWagon: 08-Nov-2011
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Tuesday, 8 November 2011. Spanish high-speed trains help RENFE scoop travel award. Independent travellers in Spain and Portugal have benefited from improved services across the Iberian Peninsula, something celebrated by the international tourism community yesterday. RENFE, the Spanish public rail network won a World Travel Market Global Award at London's Excel, which company president, Teofilo Serrano Beltran collected from WTM Chairman Fiona Jeffery. And here is the rest of it. Posted by Kelly Pipes.
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SandWagon: "Gamification" coming to a holiday near you
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Monday, 7 November 2011. Gamification" coming to a holiday near you. Exploring the architectural glories of Renaissance Florence via the third-person animated pixels of the game Assassin's Creed II is surprisingly gratifying, I admit. Control pad travel, aboard the PlayStation plane, has certain advantages over real life travel. And the same can be said, it seems, for selling holidays. Travel boffins Euromonitor concluded from recent studies that, "Gamification is the latest battleground in online travel...
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SandWagon: 31-May-2012
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Thursday, 31 May 2012. A chance to take stock during travels in South East Asia. It's just 8.30am on registration day at the International Dhamma Hermitage of Wat Suan Mokkh. I wound up at the Hermitage of Wat Suan Mokkh after a thought-provoking stay on the island of Koh Lanta led me to seek out a yoga class or maybe a meditation introduction elsewhere in Thailand. My compass was set for Koh Phanang, where I planned to mix soul-searching with scuba diving and some Full Moon Party decadence. Right now th...
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SandWagon: Bali scuba trip - I've that sinking feeling about this dream travel plan
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Sunday, 5 February 2012. Bali scuba trip - I've that sinking feeling about this dream travel plan. MY wonderfully well-crafted dream of floating below the swooping wing of a manta ray was certainly curtailed today. even though I've a credit card gagging to shoulder the booking. But I've a hunch this one just ain't going to be. Which is the first time I've let travel reality slap me down. I've never been rich (far, far from it) but I'm the queen of the travel 'f* k it', with the 'f* k it and fly' maga...
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SandWagon: 19-Apr-2014
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Saturday, 19 April 2014. Paris Marathon 2014 - stepping back into the light. Now is as good a time as any to reconnect with you on the sandwagon. I ran my first marathon on April 6. It was the Paris Marathon. And I've been mulling over how to report it ever since. The Arc de Triumphe gives me goosebumps. Always has and still does. Thick-set and overwhelming in comparison to delicate Parisian wrought iron that dances over balconies and up lampposts. Lining up for the marathon on the Champs Ely...Fatigue, ...
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SandWagon: 29-Nov-2011
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Tuesday, 29 November 2011. Plastic problems in Cyprus highlighted by Thomas Cook. HUNDREDS of plastic water bottles have been used to create a thought-provoking eco-sculpture that stands proudly at Thomas Cook's offices in Peterborough. The statue is of a meditative man and is a replica of Auguste Rodin’s sculpture The Thinker, created in 1902 and now on display in Paris. Jo Baddeley, sustainable destinations manager for Thomas Cook, called the new recruit unique and really strange. Called “Message...
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SandWagon: 07-Nov-2011
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Monday, 7 November 2011. Gamification" coming to a holiday near you. Exploring the architectural glories of Renaissance Florence via the third-person animated pixels of the game Assassin's Creed II is surprisingly gratifying, I admit. Control pad travel, aboard the PlayStation plane, has certain advantages over real life travel. And the same can be said, it seems, for selling holidays. Travel boffins Euromonitor concluded from recent studies that, "Gamification is the latest battleground in online travel...
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SandWagon: 05-Feb-2012
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Sunday, 5 February 2012. Bali scuba trip - I've that sinking feeling about this dream travel plan. MY wonderfully well-crafted dream of floating below the swooping wing of a manta ray was certainly curtailed today. even though I've a credit card gagging to shoulder the booking. But I've a hunch this one just ain't going to be. Which is the first time I've let travel reality slap me down. I've never been rich (far, far from it) but I'm the queen of the travel 'f* k it', with the 'f* k it and fly' maga...
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SandWagon: 21-Feb-2011
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Monday, 21 February 2011. Win British Airways flight tickets to world's 'Highest Stand-Up Comedy Gig'. On March 12 B. Will team up with Comic Relief. To change their dinner menu from “chicken or fish” to chuckles and fits of laughter . and tickets for the in-flight fun fest are still up for grabs. BA will kick off a year long partnership with Comic Relief by setting a record for the ' Highest Stand-Up Comedy Gig in the World. On a flight over the UK.On the bill are stand up comics Dara O'Briain. British ...
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SandWagon: Warning posters issued to stamp out fish feeding and shark attacks in Sharm el Sheikh
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Thursday, 23 June 2011. Warning posters issued to stamp out fish feeding and shark attacks in Sharm el Sheikh. Beach hotels and scuba schools, popular with thousands of British holidaymakers, in Sharm El Sheikh are being urged to support a new campaign to help lower the risk of more shark attacks in the Red Sea. Egypt’s Chamber of Diving and Watersports (CDWS) has printed posters in English, as well Arabic, Russian and Italian, to explain why the practice of fish feeding should be stamped out. Oceanic wh...