Archive for the ‘ Travel ’ Category

No boxes of tissues provided during our stay

The brownbookproject is going to Procida next week and searching for accommodation is always the necessary but boring part of organising a trip. I mean, what can compare with booking a flight? Rarely on hotel review sites, such as tripadvisor, do you actually get an idea of what to expect; it’s as much a gamble picking the first B&B [ READ MORE ]

From St Petersburg to Pimlico

Here’s an interesting story of movement about a family I recently rehoused. Russian woman who lived St Petersburg marries an Afghanistani man in Russia. He moves to London to live with his parents and then eventually brings his pregnant wife over to be with him. The young couple are asked to leave as it’s overcrowded and, six [ READ MORE ]

The Pride of Bilbao

The Pride of Bilbao will set sail for the last time on 27th September 2010 thereby bringing to an end P&O’s loss making Portsmouth to Bilbao route. It sounds like the end of an era but The Pride of Bilbao has only been in service on this route since 2007 having been built in 1986 [ READ MORE ]

The Brownbookproject gets in the mood for Australia.

This Sunday the Brownbookproject is traveling to Australia.  We fly by Ethiad. I wonder if Tyler Brule would fly Etihad.  Tyler? To get in the mood for Australia I recently entered this FT competition to win a luxury trip.  But I’m very happy nonetheless with our plans to rent a camper and drive from Sydney to [ READ MORE ]

‘In the mood for’ with the Brownbookproject: Russia and all those countries that used to be part of the Soviet Union

Flickering through the travel pages of the Observer this morning, the Brownbook project was very pleasantly reminded of its fascination with Russia and the former Soviet Union. Not even half way through Mike Carter’s article about Lake Baikal in Siberia, I wished that instead of having coffee in my warm apartment in Amsterdam, I was [ READ MORE ]

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