travel link archives: quicklinks home

Friday April 25, 2008

Sunday April 20, 2008

Thursday April 17, 2008

Tuesday April 15, 2008

Heathrow Terminal 5 users refused travel insurance


According to the Association of British Insurers many companies now regard traveling with British Airways through Terminal 5 as a foreseeable and avoidable risk

Tuesday April 8, 2008

The long way there


The commuting patterns of Americans are changing: a slideshow of photos by Vincent Laforet.

Monday April 7, 2008

Wednesday March 19, 2008

A City That Sat on Its Treasures, but Didn’t See Them


Chandigarh throws out Corbusier's furniture as junk, finds out too late it was valuable junk.

Thursday March 13, 2008

Sunday March 9, 2008

Tuesday February 19, 2008

Forth Bridge painting set to end


In four years time...

Tuesday February 12, 2008

Tuesday February 5, 2008

Friday November 16, 2007

Tuesday November 13, 2007

Friday September 21, 2007

Wednesday September 19, 2007

Thursday August 30, 2007

Friday August 24, 2007

Wednesday August 22, 2007

Sunday August 19, 2007

Monday August 6, 2007

Thursday August 2, 2007

Airlines losing millions of bags a year


British Airways forecast to lose 1.3 million bags all by itself.

Friday July 6, 2007

Where luxury comes in a chic shade of green


The Telegraph goes to St Lucia

Friday June 15, 2007

Wednesday May 30, 2007

Overbooking, bumped flyers, and no Plan B


The joys of flying in America.

Friday May 4, 2007

Monday April 30, 2007

Metaphysical Tourism


AKA it takes all sorts, or why everyone else thinks Americans are nuts.

Friday April 13, 2007

Thursday April 12, 2007

Tuesday April 10, 2007

Wednesday January 24, 2007

Tuesday January 16, 2007

Friday January 12, 2007

Tips for a healthy high life


Tips for preventing [business] travel becoming a chore

Thursday January 11, 2007

Wednesday January 10, 2007

Saturday January 6, 2007

The Italian Connection


British Airways has been attempting to sort out lost luggage by chucking it all on a plane and sending it to Italy where the "Italian baggage handling establishment" will sort it all out...

Thursday January 4, 2007

Wednesday December 27, 2006

Saturday December 23, 2006

Wednesday December 20, 2006

'Paris Syndrome' strikes Japanese


Apparently the Japanese react badly to French 'manners'...

Tuesday December 19, 2006

Stewardess 'banned from taking bible on plane'


It's illegal to bring bibles into Saudi Arabia: ergo stewardess sues BMI, whose fault it really is. Apparently.

Sunday December 10, 2006

Friday December 8, 2006

Tuesday November 28, 2006

Yaks threaten China's 'miracle' train line


Mother Nature strikes back...?

Tuesday October 31, 2006

Sunday October 22, 2006

Sunday September 24, 2006

A mini guide to the Alhambra


Note with great care the sections on ticketing - and buy yours in advance!

Thursday September 14, 2006

Cyclists wearing helmets are 'more likely to be hit'


Drivers drive closer to men [and further away from women] and drive closer to riders who are wearing helmets

Sunday August 20, 2006

Friday August 18, 2006

Wednesday July 5, 2006

Sunday July 2, 2006

The United States of total paranoia


Jeremy Clarkson isn't enjoying working in America.

Friday June 30, 2006

Tuesday June 27, 2006

Saturday June 24, 2006

Wednesday June 21, 2006

The destruction of Beijing’s "hutongs"


Beijing's historic layout, which dates back six hundred years to the time of the Ming Dynasty, consists of hutongs, narrow alleyways that run in a maze-like fashion around the centre of the city. A third of the hutongs have been destroyed in the last three years...

Sunday June 18, 2006

Monday June 12, 2006

Sunday June 4, 2006

"Oui, Oui, Oui" all the way home


Highlights from 7 days in Paris.

Thursday June 1, 2006

Wednesday May 31, 2006

Tuesday April 18, 2006

Friday April 7, 2006

US airline quality worsening, report finds
"they're losing bags at a rate they've never done before" says report's author.

Wednesday March 22, 2006

Aryans on the Altar; Swastikas on the Church Bells
Should Berlin's only protestant Nazi-era church be preserved?

Monday March 20, 2006

Sunday March 19, 2006

Saturday March 18, 2006

Epson P-4000 review
RAW support is "a bit limited", battery life "is shockingly short". Just like the P-2000 then...

Monday March 13, 2006

Public inconvenience
There are 400 public toilets in London, a city of 7.5 million people. Excluding tourists and commuters, that's one for every 18,000 people.
Oyster data use rises in crime clampdown
Police hunting criminals are increasingly seeking information from electronically stored travel records, such as those created by users of the Oyster card in London.
British Rail's flying saucer plan
Not just a flying saucer, but a nuclear powered flying saucer.

Sunday March 12, 2006

Understanding RAW Files
If you have the space, shoot both RAW and JPG.

Saturday February 25, 2006

Tuesday January 17, 2006

Friday January 13, 2006

Wednesday January 11, 2006

Tuesday January 10, 2006

Thursday January 5, 2006

UK tourism deficit hits £17bn
Not quite the tourism destination we think we are, obviously.

Saturday December 24, 2005

All Hail The New York Transit Worker
"'Twas five days before Christmas and all through the town;
Not a train was up running, they'd all been shut down
..."

Friday December 23, 2005

Just Van Gogh!
Kottke on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition of Van Gogh's drawings that's closing at the end of December. It's very good, and it was relatively quiet and un-crowded while the MTA was on strike...

Saturday December 10, 2005

Online hotel rating sites driving anxiety into the hearts of many hotel managers
"On these sites, disgruntled guests are free to use their own words to describe the horror of their stay; totally free to alter the facts without comment, explanation, or remedy from the hotel"

Monday December 5, 2005

Saturday November 26, 2005

Friday October 14, 2005

The Best Burgers in NYC
And who says I never post anything of vital importance??

Thursday October 6, 2005

Monday May 2, 2005

Thursday April 21, 2005

Monday April 11, 2005

Black and white Photography » Walking the Circle Line: Moorgate to Tower Hill
"I am walking London Underground’s Circle Line. In this installment, I’ll be making the trek from Moorgate through Liverpool Street and Aldgate to Tower Hill."

Saturday April 2, 2005

Barry Barr's graffiti photos
You may have noticed I have a liking for graffiti and street photography: Patrick Barry Barr has been taking photos of graffiti and murals in various cities including Milan, Barcelona, Bilbao, BeloHorizonte (Brasil), Lima and, Queens, NYC. [via Wooster Collective]
The Way We See it
A London-based collaborative photo-blog [for lack of a better description...] where every week or so a group of photographers take pictures of a different part of London. The project aims to see how differently people view and perceive the same place through the lens.

Saturday March 26, 2005

Tuesday March 15, 2005

Sunday March 13, 2005

Saturday March 12, 2005

Thursday February 17, 2005

Saturday February 5, 2005

London Underground Stations
Lovingly hand coloured, not half as dull as you might think. via Londonist.