Archive for November, 2006

The Knee Defender: Protect Your Turf on the Airplane

Other than perhaps a bad wax job in the nether regions, there is little in this world worse than having the person in front of you on an airplane recline his seat all the way back into your lap. This is especially true if you are part of the 99% of the world’s population with [...]

A Classic Everest Adventure Trek in Nepal

After reading Into Thin Air, you couldn’t pay me enough to climb the world’s tallest mountain. I understand why some would want to experience all of the agony it takes to reach the summit, but I’d rather leave that challenge to others. That isn’t to say that I wouldn’t want to check out Mt. Everest [...]

£0.01* Flights from London to Central Europe

Today as I was pondering who the first person was to ever include the term *lol* in an email, I came across the latest offerings from our friends at Wizz Air. When flights between London and select destinations in Central Europe can be purchased for £0.01*, it is certainly no lol matter. As is usually [...]

Berlin Hotels and Hostels Deals

I had the good fortune to spend a couple of months in Berlin, Germany this summer during the World Cup. The German capital is an electric city that is seemingly changing for the better each and every day. As you walk down the streets past some of the historic buildings and admire the pioneering modern [...]

Mt. Kilimanjaro Marangu Route Tour

There is something about standing on the highest point on a continent that is attracting a lot of people to mountain climbing these days. It is an exhilarating feeling for sure, but it also is a lot of work and can be dangerous. Mt. Kilimanjaro is the highest peak in Africa and it is also [...]

Fly to Central Europe for 1 Euro

The low fares this week are flooding in faster than you can say “Whatever happened to those Spice Girls?” Today’s tasty offering is flights from the UK to Central Europe for one Euro. SkyEurope will take you to Bratislava, Krakow and Salzburg for less than the cost of one of those fancy cups of coffee. [...]

HLX Offering £5 Flights to Europe

I’ll give the German discount airline Hapag-Lloyd Express (HLX) some credit for their slogan, “Fly for the price of a taxi.” Pretty clever, as are their airplanes painted taxi yellow. Most clever of all are the £5 tickets they have for sale right now to destinations throughout Europe. Fly from Newcastle to Hanover; Birmingham to [...]

Cheap Tickets to Riga, Latvia on Air Baltic

I’ll confess that flying on an airline that I don’t know much about like Air Baltic always makes my stomach a little nervous. I guess I am still trying to recover from a flight I took on Kazakh Air about a decade ago. I swear that various parts of the airplane fell off during the [...]

Jet2 Offers Up Free Flights. Yes, that says Free

Not to be outdone by the free tickets being peddled by Ryanair, Jet2 has launched their on free ticket sale. Simply pay the taxes and you can fly free to places like Amsterdam, Milan and Prague. I’m telling you folks, this time next year the discount airlines are going to be paying us to fly [...]

Lufthansa Flies to both Beijing and Peking

Loyal readers of this blog – thanks Mom, Dad – know that I have a certain affection for Lufthansa’s Ready to Fly? program. Each week they magically send me an email update for great offers and each week I dutifully check it out. Today, I received an email with an offer for a round-trip ticket [...]