Posted by Jackie Hewett on Sat 7th April 2007 at 10:49 PM, Filed in Travel Tips
When looking for and booking hotels via the internet where should you start?
My best advice is research, research and more research! If you want to be sure of getting a hotel that will meet your requirements, and at the best possible price there are a few simple things you can do.
Firstly do a general Google search on the town / area you want to stay. Once you have found a few hotels that are potentially of interest look them up on ‘http:www.tripadviser.com’. This is a site on which members of the public publish their opinions on hotels in which they have stayed.
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Do you go on self-catering holidays, or holidays where you have access to a washing machine and don’t want to have to take heavy boxes of washing powder with you, or the hassle of finding it in a foreign country? At the same time you could be doing ‘your bit’ for the environment.
We are all becoming increasingly aware of how vital it is to ‘be green’. With such a large family (see my biog) I don’t want my children and grandchildren blaming my generation for wasting our valuable, limited natural resources so I am now converted to balls (Eco Balls that is).
I found this amazing product by ‘trawling’ the internet…..THEY WORK!!
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Posted by Jackie Hewett on Tue 27th March 2007 at 11:28 PM, Filed in Travel Tips
Fortunately I am not a sea-sickness sufferer myself. However as my mother and step-children all are I watched a recent ‘Mythbusters’ program on television with great interest as it exploded the myths behind various remedies….
They started by designing a chair contraption designed to simulate the motion of being at sea, and then identifying potential sea-sickness sufferers. Their guinea-pigs took turns in the ‘chair of torture’, and only those who became really queasy were selected to test various commercial, and other, remedies.
The remedies triailed included special tablets, wrist bands and the old mariners favourite - ginger. The program was very convincing as the poor sufferers were put through their paces and grew increasingly reluctant to participate! I am glad to report (for your pockets) that the only consistently effective remedy was found to be the consumption of ginger. As you can get it in many different forms (pills, candied, raw and powdered) I advise you to ‘go natural’ and not waste your money on fancy products.
If you have any of your own sea sickness tips we’d love to hear from you!
