The Foreign Secretary gives a list of "ludicrous requests" for consular advice made by British tourists, including how to erect a chicken coop, help with finding lost false teeth and translating 'I love you' into Hungarian. No Comments
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April 4th, 2012 - 9:59 am § in Australia travel blogs, Great Britain travel blogs, Greece travel blogs, Italy travel blogs, Spain travel blogs, Travel News
Checking on livestock and other ‘ludicrous’ requests to consular staff
May 10th, 2011 - 12:00 pm § in Destinations, Journals
Your Favorite Rail Routes
Last week senior researcher Meg Weaver interviewed Mark Ovenden about his new book, Railway Maps of the World, and he told us about his favorite rail journey, a jaunt on the Isle of Wight steam railway with his nieces and nephews. We then turned it over to you to tell us what your favorite rail̷[...]
August 19th, 2010 - 9:03 am § in Destinations
Win a copy of the fabulous book ‘Dive in Style’!
A Luxury Travel Blog has teamed up with the publishers Thames & Hudson to offer you a great chance to win one of 5 copies of the fabulous book âDive in Styleâ by Tim Simmond. I have a copy of this beautiful book myself and it contains over 700 fabulous illustrations of where you [...][...]
August 14th, 2010 - 2:28 am § in Journals
Day One, Edited at Last
Bodhisatta (n): In the Pali canon, the Bodhissata Siddhartha Gotama is described thus: Before my awakening, when I was an unawakened Bodhisatta, being subject myself to birth, sought what was likewise subject to birth. Being subject myself to aging… illness… death… sorrow… defilement, I soug[...]