Update: You can find tips for first time flyers at the bottom of this post.
If you don’t know already, I’ve set myself a bit of a challenge. The objective is simple. I have to visit every single European country in my lifetime. A visit constitutes being across the country border for longer than five minutes [...]
I stayed at the Ramada Plaza in Basel for one night. If you’re looking for a stunningly designed, efficiently run and good value hotel in Basel, look no further. Here’s my review of this very impressive property.
Throughout my trip to Switzerland, I was sending updates from my mobile phone to Twitter. These updates were collated each day into a single post. For the purposes of clarity, I’ve now deleted these individual posts and have created this single post for the whole trip.
13th October 2007
Off to Switzerland tomorrow. Updates all week. #
14th [...]
I stayed at the Hotel Oberland in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland for four nights. The excellent hotel staff provided everything I could have hoped for after a day’s slog up the mountains. Warmth, comfort, fantastic service, amazing food and superb value. Here’s what I thought.
Hi. I’m back from Switzerland. What did I bring back with me? Swiss chocolates, cow bells, postcards… and a stinking cold! Everyone seems to think it was the altitude. They’re probably right. I got a sore throat almost as I arrived, but I managed to get rid of that with some tablets from the ‘Apotheke’. [...]
After a year of hard work, my studies for 2007 are finished. I completed my exam for my Open University Environmental Studies course on Wednesday and I’m now free to do as I will until it starts all over again next February/March. I’m glad I get at Winter break as opposed to a Summer break. [...]
ARRRGGGHHHH! Something’s definitely not right. This afternoon, England, who’ve quite frankly been awful ever since they won the World Cup four years ago beat Australia in the quarter finals of this year’s World Cup. There was only one try in the whole match and it was Australia’s, but four penalties from the golden boot of [...]
