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New Year, New Me. What Does 2019 Hold.
I pause to take stock and make plans for an uncertain future. 2018 was a hard year, will 2019 and the future be better? I am formulating plans and preparing for a tough year, hoping for the best but ensuring I can handle the worst of 2019.
Preparing For Brexit
Stop procrastinating and get prepared for BREXIT in a very few short weeks you may wish you had bought more beans.
Avoid The Retail Tricks!
The world of retail pricing or in fact any pricing strategy is to pull the wool over the buyers eyes and make you shell out your hard earned cash on stuff you don’t need. Bold statement but how close to the truth is it?
Great Ways To Save For Travel
Saving for travel can be fun and by changing some of your habits the cash can soon mount up. Here are some great saving tips to get you started and you'll soon be relaxing on that tropical beach.
Flight Packing Guide
Travelling by air can be very stressful. Today’s version of air travel differs greatly from that of only a few years ago. Today, people are crammed into an ever-shrinking seat with smaller amounts of legroom and more restrictions then entering Buckingham Palace.

Cycle Touring

Nico the Bus Driver
I cycled for about an hour and a half before arriving at Kerk in Spiere just after the Belgium border, not that you notice borders in Europe, apparently they have an arrangement
Sleeping in a Car Wash!
I could see lightning in the distance and hear the thunder, it was already raining and I had a feeling the weather was going to get worse. I was on the main road heading out-of-town when the lightning was directly above me and the thunder was really loud, up ahead …
Continue Straight On!
But it's a corn field, now I knew the navigation App was set to keep me off busy roads and aim for cycle paths but a corn field, okay there was a path and it had bike tracks on, so perhaps it was a short cut (by the way if …
Belgium Waffles
Once I had escaped the grips of the forest I headed into Brussels town, my aim was to get to see the atomium. I popped into a bus shelter to look at the map and figure the route out, it turns out I was very close and after a short …
Sore Ribs
The weather outside the tent was windy in the early hours with some showers, I got up at 09:00 and went to the shower block to freshen up and hoped a hot shower would relive the aches and pains.