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Popular Valentines Weekend Break Deals – Including 50% off hotels

Here is what city break deals, hotels, flights and lastminute holiday deals that most people have been searching for on the Internet as we prepare for the Valentines Weekend break coming in February.
Most popular Valentines Weekend Deals at Thomas Cook: 

50% Off Hotels
£50 Off Flights + Hotels
£50 Off City Breaks
Lastminute Holiday Deals
£30 Off Hotels

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Thunder, lightning and hailstones in London

How quickly London weather changes! Yesterday and early part of today we were baking in temperatures more like back in Zimbabwe, and now we have hail stones, thunder and lightning. Now I’m stuck in the house, London weather???

Peny-pinching Ryanair to axe baggage handlers and charge for using toilets

Passengers travelling on budget airline, Ryanair could soon be told to load their own luggage onto planes and could also be charged £1 for using the toilet.Ryanair believes they could save money if it did not have to pay for baggage handlers. But will that work?? Ryanair chief executive, Michael O’leary, says: ‘I believe we [...]

Travel like a Queen, use budget airlines

The Queen of Spain travelling on budget airline, Ryanair. That’s not more like royal travel isn’t it? Well, it’s been in the British press as a lesson in cost cutting to the British royal family. The Queen of Spain travelled on a £13 Ryanair flight to London.The 70 year old mornarch flew with the low [...]

Would you pay extra money to reserve a train seat?

National Express services is introducing a £5 rail levy just to reserve a seat on it’s trains. Is this fair or it’s another rip-off by the train companies?Personally i think if you pay your train fare you should get a seat, especially on those long journey trains. National Express is going to charge travellers £2.50 [...]

We are set for a hot Summertime in Britain

We are set for a hot summer in Britain. The Met office is predicting temperatures regularly above 30 degrees in it’s long-range forecasts. This is good news, something to cheer us up in these gloomy days, we have the Credit Crunch and now Swine Flu.
Time to sort out those plans for a summertime of fun.The [...]

I felt cheated of my one hour yesterday

Daylight saving…..well, in Africa we didn’t have anything like that. All these years in London, I still find it hard to cope with losing my one hour when clocks go forward….especially when I was working in the morning. Plus it was a cold weekend again…..how I miss the weather back home.But, thank God…sunny weather is [...]

It’s like summer in London today

After the bad weather of the past few weeks…what a lovely day we are having this Saturday! In fact it looks like summer has come early.
Very unfortunate that I’m stuck at work the whole day today and tommorow again……I would rather be at home.
Well, I hope this good weather will last a bit longer.

London Snow – Lonely Snowman in my garden!

Snoogy the Snowman in my garden! Get to go back and make his partner.