I got on board the AMTRAK train to New York at New Carrollton as I normally do. Walking down the aisle wheeling my carry-on luggage with one hand and holding my coffee and blueberry Danish in the other, I spotted my old friend Joe. Even though he was wearing Ray Ban sunglasses, there was no mistaking his big, broad smile. Joe and I had spent many hours together on AMTRAK - Joe going to Delaware...
A top writer is furious at being passed over by ITV who have commissioned three new travel programmes. ITV Daytime have ordered celebrity travelogues by Adrian Admondson, Ade In Britain, and Dick Strawbridge, the boat-based Hungry Sailors, while a...
Hey there! I was sitting around the other day, at my parents, rolling a fat one, and I just thought to myself - "I'm not just not ready to stop travelling yet, I think I'll head off to Asia or the Pacific or something." I was comparing the life I had last year, when I was backpacking around Egypt to the one I have now, you know, trying to find a job, get a bond together to move out of my par...
Each week we join Sir Digby Herringbone-Sweater as he takes us on one of his famous Slut Walks. This week, Sir Digby discovers the cultural high watermark that is Croydon-On-The-Lash and its environs. I step off the rickety tram (a charming hallmark of a bygone era) alighting on the outskirts of East Croydon station, wondering what sights I will behold on this, my latest Slut Walk? I can barel...
The Conference North, the second tier of non-league football has been expanded to include Bishop Stortford. Bishop Stortford is the town in which London Stanstead Airport is located. "It's a bit ridiculous," said Alan Carlisle, chairman of Working...
In a further attempt to bridge the gap between U.S. and U.K. cultures and their respective citizenry, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced the "Have a Bloke and a Smile" campaign. President Barack Obama has also picked a director of goodwill c...
Peregrine Trip investigates the West Country cathedral city… I stared intently at the map, but I just was not seeing. For the life of me, I could not locate Bristol Road. So, feeling rather foolish, I asked the thick-set lad at reception who was trying to give me directions: "I'm sorry, but which is Bristol Road? I know… I'm sorry… it's stupid but I just can't see it." The pair of recepti...
Not many people would consider Saudi Arabia as a potential holiday destination. However, travellers who ignore it could be missing out on a surprising country which on the surface appears to offer little, but actually delivers. One of the main cities is Mecca, which is a historically important Islamic city. Indeed, it has become something of a mecca for Muslim pilgrims. There are other citie...
Globe trotting presenter Michael Palin has revealed that his latest in a long line of travel documentaries will be based in Brazil. Called "Hovel To Hovel : Around The Favelas In 80 Minutes", the ex Monty Python star's newest enterprise will featu...
Travel editor Peregrin Trip visits the historic Belgian port... Magnificent! Antwerp Central railway station - truly magnificent. What a temple to the glory days of rail travel! Antwerpen Centraal was clearly designed to demonstrate that the latter-day burghers' ambition and civic pride were just as great as their medieval forefathers who built its more ancient and holier compatriot down the...
Rail travellers in the U.K. are steeling themselves for disruption with the news that Arriva Trains will be striking in Wales and parts of England next week. Although workers have been offered a 12% increase over the next 2 years, union sources cl...
Buckingham Palace is advertising for a new "head of travel" to help the Royal Family cut costs and reduce their carbon footprint. The post, worth between £55,000 and £75,000, is advertised on the family's web site. A palace insider said: "Membe...
The Foreign Office's previous instructions advising "essential travel only" for Egyptian destinations such as Cairo, Alexandria and Suez, has finally been relaxed. The warnings has been put in place in the wake of widespread unrest and civil dist...
Lately, I've been doing a lot of traveling in connection with my writing. The past three months alone I've driven to Sylva, North Carolina, Louisville, Kentucky, and Destin, Florida. Overall, I'm holding up reasonably well, except for the fact that my rear end is starting to closely resemble the upholstery pattern of my car seats. I've also learned that you don't want to drink a twenty-four ounce...
In the wake of Heathrow Airport's shocking inability to handle the winter weather, a snitchy insider has claimed that those in charge of the laughing stock of the air travel industry were always going to show their incompetence and inability to deal...
In recent years more than 40 automobiles, drivers, and passengers have disappeared for days while navigating on roads and highways in up-state New York. Little news of these occurrences ever reaches the media who is blinded by purported intellectua...
A lone, regal silhouette stares from an upstairs window at snow-swept Sandringham, the Norfolk estate where the Royal Family gathers annually for the Christmas holidays. HM the Queen keeps the vigil, dividing her gaze between her Blackberry and a...
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