The current cold spell sweeping across Europe has focused many minds on booking holidays in warmer climes. And despite the current weak state of sterling against the euro the little island of Lanzarote in the Canaries remains a real hot favourite with tourists from the UK and Eire. As visitor numbers from both of these [...]
Ryanair is saying it might ditch Italy … and it’s not just a publicity stunt. The low-cost airline says that new rules on which forms of identification are acceptable for boarding compromise security. The new reg, from Italy’s civil aviation authority, ENAC, makes licenses for driving, fishing and hunting fine for use at the gate, [...]
Spaniards are big into Christmas. The eating, the gift giving, the shopping craziness, it’s all here with a distinctly Spanish twist. Hold off on the presents The day for gift giving isn’t Christmas, but Epiphany on January 6. Christmas Eve isn’t a time for anticipating what’s under the tree but for sitting with the family [...]
Europe may still be experiencing the effects of the recession, but online travel continues its upward march across the continent’s diverse and complex markets, according to travel industry research authority, PhoCusWright Inc. Changes in the economy and the travel industry have driven significant shifts in how consumers shop for and purchase travel. PhoCusWright’s European Online [...]
An incident in which Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was injured by a man wielding a statue has proven profitable for souvenir sellers in Italy. According to Yahoo News, vendors say they’ve noticed a sharp uptick in sales of the Duomo statue, the same one a mentally disturbed man used to bloody Berlusconi’s face while [...]
More than two thousand passengers were trapped in the Channel Tunnel last night when unusually cold weather in northern France made four Eurostar trains break down at the same time. Four trains coming from Brussels and Paris entered the tunnel between France and England and promptly broke down because of the temperature change between the [...]