Dubai Shopping Festival
Dubai is home to many fun festivals and the Dubai Shopping Festival isn’t any different. The 18th festival is set to be huge for passionate shoppers alike as magical musical street shows teamed with...
View ArticleEmirates Airline Dubai Jazz Festival
It seems February is a great month to be out in Dubai. Following on from the Shopping Festival is the Jazz Festival which runs for nine days from Thursday 14th February to Saturday 22nd. Run by...
View ArticleOh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree!
Since last year, Lego trees seem to be the in thing for cities in England at Christmastime and this year, it is Manchester that is host to the enchanting evergreen. 30ft, 108 branches, 450 bright...
View Article£31,250 And This Could Be Yours…
Why not go all out this Christmas and tuck in to this luxuriously rich dinner menu created with ingredients costing no less than £100. Think that’s bad? How about the most expensive ingredient which...
View ArticleBah Humbug! Returning Home…
For Malton, North Yorkshire, the classic Charles Dickens novel, A Christmas Carol, has returned home making this Christmas slightly more special than those before. This special bound copy of the...
View ArticleChristmas Dinner The Easy Way
The easy way?! Some of you are slowly becoming incensed by these words because, after all, it’s Christmas and Christmas only comes once a year so why not go all out, learn, extend and improve...
View ArticleHide Those Gifts!
You would have thought it would have been common knowledge. You would have thought that with the warnings each year, people would have wised up. You would have thought that keeping your Christmas gifts...
View Article12/12/12
12/12/12 Yes, I know it’s the 13/12/12 today but yesterday was the 12/12/12 and, if you didn’t notice or if you simply ‘missed’ the day then you missed a great day in history. This is the last day in...
View ArticleHave Yourself A Merry Vegan Christmas!
With the absence of any product coming from or containing an animal, the vegan diet can seem quite limited. Look a little further and you might just give up on the idea altogether. But when you have a...
View ArticleArtificial Antlers
When going to Santa’s Grotto you expect to see ‘Rudolph’ and his friends. But would you expect to see a cosmetic Rudolph the reindeer impressionist? Probably not, right? But in the West Midlands, Kate...
View ArticleThe Most Fun Job In The World – Apply Now!
Personally I think this is the most fun job in the world! What if I told you, expenses paid, you could travel all over the world for six months… Interested? Just for good measure let’s say you can...
View ArticleI Heart Sandals
I’m a lucky aardvark. The Caribbean in January is absolutely wonderful. Mrs Aardvark and I have just returned from an exquisite ten days of tropical island holiday perfection in Jamaica. Yes, the...
View ArticleTen Things You (Possibly) Never Knew About The Rio Carnival
It’s one of the most colourful events on the planet, renowned for the costumes, samba, floats and dancers. The UK has Shrove Tuesday; Rio has Mardi Gras. Pancakes or a four-day party? I know which one...
View ArticleUnderwater Nightclub
It’s the world first underwater nightclub. As if the Maldives didn’t have enough to offer with the lure of paradise, white beaches and blue lagoons surrounded by coral reefs! Dhaalu Atoll is one of the...
View ArticleHoliday Destinations: Fethiye – Ölüdeniz (chapter 3 -bölüm üç)
Over the course of the following twelve months we made three trips to the same hotel three times and have been back again since. We will go back and, perhaps get married there. It’s the people who make...
View ArticleHoliday Destinations: Fethiye – Ölüdeniz (chapter 1 – birinci bölümde)
Up until about five years ago I had never really fancied Turkey as a holiday destination. I’d like to see the sunrise over the Bosphorus, but would I go all that way just for that? It happened when me...
View ArticleHoliday Destinations: Fethiye – Ölüdeniz (chapter 2 – bölüm iki)
Fethiye [Feh-tee-yuh] is completely different. The stall holders at the market are just as keen to sell, but the town is much older. The streets around the old town are crammed full of boutiques, rug...
View ArticleHong Kong’s Panda Hotel
Themed hotels are extremely popular and with so many themes floating about, it must have been hard to find one that would not only be the world’s first, but one that would garner enough interest for...
View Article12/12/12
12/12/12 Yes, I know it’s the 13/12/12 today but yesterday was the 12/12/12 and, if you didn’t notice or if you simply ‘missed’ the day then you missed a great day in history. This is the last day in...
View ArticleGetting A Proper Job
Now I’m not work-shy but this is the most I’ve ever been through to get a ‘Proper Job’. Early July and I was driving with my Uncle to Cornwall for a week away with my family. I knew the motorway …...
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