Category Archives: travel
Cantal press trip blogged – and a travel request
Just back from a week in the centre of France in a little known area called the Cantal. It may be “one of the most sparsely populated and geographically isolated French departments”, according to Wikipedia, but it does have one … Continue reading
Travmedia launches new social network for travel trade
Travmedia, a press release and journalist alert service which connects journalists and PRs, has just made a very smart move (I hope) by launching a Facebook-style social network, that will facilitate many more travel trade connections and work opportunities, and … Continue reading
News from my blogs
Having different blogs for different subject areas means that I am a slave to them all. So if it’s quiet here on my central hub then it’s probably because I’m over on one of my other workday or spare-time blogs. … Continue reading
Yeah, what he said…
OK, this is possibly the laziest blog post in the world evah as I did want to document today’s trip to Ironbridge in Shropshire, an hour or so west of Birmingham, but fortunately the work has already been done perfectly … Continue reading
Spaghetti Junction Flickrmeet
Why Birmingham Flickrmeets rawk and possibly create an opportunity local adventure tourism – check out the full story over on my travel blog. Meanwhile, here is a slideshow of yesterday’s concrete loveliness – or view the full set on Spaghetti … Continue reading
SXSW – the Glastonbury of conferences
A little SXSW diary catchup… It’s the halfway point of SXSW Interactive and I’m still gearing up into this festival to end all web festivals. Here’s my personal/business mission statement for this year’s event – slightly different from last year … Continue reading
Transparent journalism – the Web 2.0 way to compile a Top 10 list
Been having fun over on my travel blog Tourist Vs Traveller with exposing the messy inner blood and guts of how I put together two Valentine’s Day features on the ‘top 10′ romantic places in the UK and around the … Continue reading
NYE at Birmingham Coach Station
Apologies for the cross-posting but my new travel blog Tourist Vs Traveller is now up and running, and has some nice, shiny new content on it so I’m shouting about it a bit. It being that time of year, I’ve … Continue reading
