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The Last Whalers – An Azorean Past

No longer practised on the islands of the Azores, but whaling was a big industry. A whale’s cadaver was processed for lamp oil, candles, medicines, perfume and machinery lubricants. The blubber was melted down for oil and the bones tossed aside. The first type of whaling done was shore whaling along the New England coast, […]

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Village Life in the Azores

Blimey Summers, Scorching Canuks

As a fellow Canadian, I completely understand the hardships of weather patterns in Toronto Canada. In 2011 it’s proving to be an especially scorching summer, something that can’t be said about London England. In Toronto the swings of seasons are clear, hot summers, wet autumns, freezing winters and warm springs. Though ask any Canadian and […]

World’s first HD streaming video of planet Earth

World’s first ever high definition, streaming video of planet Earth, installed on the outside of the International Space Station through a joint effort with the Russian Space Agency, the camera will provide a 40 km wide, high resolution, color image down to as close as 1.1 metres. UrtheCast is building, launching, installing, and operating two […]

Global Debt – Countries with the Highest Debt

Global debt is increasingly becoming a serious global issue. Below is a list of countries with the highest external debts. All the talk of financial crisis it was good idea to get a look at the situation of countries with their debt listed, it proved interesting to see, and shocking. These results are as of […]

London Bike Hire

Launched on 30 July 2010, the Barclays Cycle Hire soon became a great success on London roads. Like anything British, there were bumps in the beginning, but now almost a year on, the scheme continues to prove popular. I enrolled for an annual membership, allowing me to take as many 30 minute journeys for free. […]

Ash Clouds & Travel Insurance

Iceland volcano Eyjafjallajökull eruptions disrupt flights in Europe because of ash clouds. Scotland and Scandinavia have some 250 flights cancelled. In 2010 the volcano ash grounded most of northern Europe for more than a week, causing chaos among passengers and airlines, costing billions. I was lucky to have flight bans lifted the day I was […]

TOP 100 MOST VISITED CITIES – 2010

Top most visited destinations and cities for the year ending 2010 in terms of international tourist arrivals. The economic crisis that started in 2008 has caused a drop in international travel, in the top 100 cities there is an average 3.5% drop. There is no part of the planet that has not been effected. One […]

Abu Simbel • Egypt

The complex of temples dedicated to the Pharaoh Ramsis II “the Great”, Abu Simbel in Upper Egypt was saved from the rising waters of Lake Nasser, growing behind the Aswan Dam, in a massive archaeological rescue plan sponsored by UNESCO in the 1960s. Abu Simbel is a village lying 280 km south of Aswan and only 40 km north of […]

Aswan • Egypt

One of the driest inhabited places in the world, Aswan is a city in the south of Egypt. It stands on the east bank of the Nile and is a busy market and tourist centre. Aswan is some 680km (425 miles) south of Cairo, just below the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser is far more relaxed and smaller than Cairo and Luxor. The smallest of […]

Cairo • Egypt

Cairo, literally “The Vanquisher” or “The Conqueror”, is the capital of Egypt. Nicknamed “The City of a Thousand Minarets” for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region’s political and cultural life, associated with Ancient Egypt due to its proximity to the Great Sphinx and the pyramids in adjacent Giza. One of the largest […]

Giza • Egypt

Giza is a city to the west of the Egyptian capital, now absorbed as part of the heavily-populated and sprawling Cairo metropolis. One of the premier attractions of Egypt, the Pyramids of Giza represent the pyramid structures of ancient Egyptian civilisation. The city of Giza, or Gizah, is the third-largest city in Egypt located on the west bank of the Nile River, […]

Luxor, Egypt

Luxor is the premier travel destination in Upper (southern) Egypt and the Nile Valley. Vast temples, to ancient royal tombs, via spectacular desert and river scenery and a bustling modern life. As the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, Luxor has frequently been characterized as the “world’s greatest open-air museum”, as the ruins of the […]

EGYPT CLOSED – CHAOS ACROSS EGYPT

Cancelled trip to Egypt as per advice from UK Foreign Office, means travel here is now dead until peace is restored. Three hours into my flight the captain announces we are diverted to Athens. Later it is confirmed the flight landed due to a bomb scare as reported by the BBC. The rising unrest in Egypt and the […]

SHUNNING THE EURO ZONE

With the pound and the euro now almost the same value, holidaymakers decide on traveling to go where they can get more for their money. With the low value of the British Pound and the Euro now almost the same value, holidaymakers (including myself) have decided to avoid travels in the Euro zone to try […]

MOST DANGEROUS AIRPORTS

A list of some of the world’s most dangerous airports, scary landings and take-offs. It’s not the sort of thing you always wanted to know before you travel, but there are some airports around the world notorious for risky landings and take-offs. I’ve researched and found a list of some of the worlds most dangerous […]