UK Ferry Tickets

Maybe it’s just me. But on recent trips abroad I do find myself longing for the days when making a call home from a foreign country involved tracking down a phonecard and getting to grips with the public call boxes of whatever country you find yourself in.
The mobile phone has changed all that of course. [...]

If you’re travelling to Europe on a self drive holiday with your children then a lot of fun can be had by all. After all, you’ll have the accommodation booked up, activities planned to keep all of you entertained and no doubt they’ll be exhausted every night so you’ll have a good night’s sleep. However, [...]

We all dream about it 358 days of the year – getting off the ferry and heading onto the open road, driving for miles with no worries, responsibility or stress. Sounds like heaven doesn’t it? It certainly does to me. No matter how much thought goes into the trip though, the likelihood is that you’ll [...]

Now holiday season is in full swing, your summer holiday might be looming on the horizon. If you are planning a self-drive holiday in Europe then you might want to start thinking about whether you are to take your own car or whether you are going to hire one after travelling on the ferry or [...]

Self-drive holidays are becoming more and more popular for several reasons. They’re usually cheaper than jetting off somewhere, undoubtedly give you a lot more freedom to do what you like when you like and are also much better for the environment than long haul flights. There is one pressing consideration involved in taking a self [...]

I’ve always been confident that staying cool, calm and collected and having a basic understanding of the laws of the road is enough to ensure that you have a relaxed and enjoyable self drive holiday abroad.
An experience at the weekend got me thinking though. Driving through a suburb of Newcastle I was pulled over by [...]

The UK is undoubtedly a great place to come from. We have everything we could possibly need at our disposal here and many of us enjoy life on our separate little continent. However, the UK hardly prepares us for travelling abroad. For starters, the weather leaves a lot to be desired and you can almost [...]

The world’s first chocolate-powered vehicle is to travel from Britain to Timbuktu later this month.
Two inventors, Andy Pag and John Grimshaw, will drive the route of over 4,500 miles using biodiesel fuel made with the waste from chocolate production. It will, with a bit of luck and a following wind, create the lowest possible carbon [...]

There’s a commonly-held belief in the UK that European drivers are all mad and will cut you up as soon as look at you.
I’ve never actually found that to be the case. Certainly, driving around France is a lot more pleasurable than trying to negotiate the roads of south London. Drivers seem a lot more [...]

After two years of politics, cuddling up to the right people, presentations, reports and site visits, it all came down to a stirring speech from Lord Coe and that husky-voiced woman from M-People singing over a video showing David Beckham attempting a crossword.
How marvellous it was for London to win the right to host the [...]