The budget hotel chain, 'The Travelodge' has now introduced the concept of scented rooms to help intice their guests to stay there and to soothe the travellers' rest.Guests will be able to choose from 'smell of the...
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"Having been left with no option other than to resign from the Security Department of the Home Office, John Francis Smith soon found another job in the NHS and though not as well paid, he survived comfortably enough....
Most leisure or business travelers visiting Mumbai have planned their trip in detail.One thing that they might not have carefully considered is the clothes.Anand Giridharadas offers some suggestions in Dressed by the Best: What to Wear in Mumbai? (Globespotters).
Hurray for the old elephants of Kerala!"Adorned with gold, and carrying a Hindu deity on his broad back, Babu the elephant plays a central role in religious ceremonies across the Indian state of Kerala....
I never heard of glamping until I stopped by Cool Travel Guide which paid me a visit recently.Glamping sounds like the name for a disease to me but is actually camping with the comforts.Hey! we are getting older.The word amounts to a mashup of glamor and camping.
The safety questions on a number of Boeing planes have caused yet another US airline to cancel flights."Delta Air Lines says it plans to announce Thursday whether it will cancel more flights while engineers inspect...
I am not the most relaxed person at times. I tend to think that I stress too much. After reading When Anxiety is at the Table by Jeff Bell (NY Times), I realized that at any rate I would rate as a mild case of anxiety. The article details how 'restaurants can trigger...
Ready to hit the trails, looking for adventure, ancient civilizations with Macchu Picchu as the crown jewel, Mountain Lodges of Peru offers all that via hiking trails such as the Salkantay Trek with the reassuring thought that your maybe not so young or trained bodies find...
Many of us would love to be able to sofa sit, surf the web, and watch any internet video on TV with the same ease and laziness as our simple channel clicking television viewing habits. But at present, as the Wall...
In case you missed it, November 14 is a milestone for train travel from London to the Continent with the launch of Eurostar service from its new home of St Pancras. Roger Blitz thinks that 'High-speed link may be the dawn of new era for rail'. Shaving off time on...
A retirement home for former sex-worked in Mexico City has been set up to take care of women who are retired from the sex trade."An estimated 3,000 prostitutes work in Mexico City at any one time
Go to the centre of Mexico City after dark and you can see the women start to...
Hope, a term we all use to assuage our fears and calm ourselves in this complex world. This amazing essay, flips the coin on this tremulous emotional state which defines the boundaries we impose on ourselves in...
"Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard broke down and sobbed after he knocked down a 10-year-old-boy outside a school.
Jamie Halliwell ran into the side of the footballer's Bentley - but escaped with only a broken leg.
A...