May 22nd, 2009 | by Simon | published in Travel, airlines
I use AA.com all the time – booking flights, checking my AAdvantage miles, and checking seat availability, requesting upgrades bla de bla.
Their site honestly sucks big time. It looks awful, is clumsy, and is a nightmare to navigate. So hats off to Dustin Curtis for sending an open letter to AA about their site design, [...]
May 17th, 2009 | by Simon | published in Travel
On a trip to London probably about a month ago now, me and the famille ended up in Lacock. It is a really olde worlde looking village with loads of thatched cottages, and is used loads in filming historical television series and so on. Probably the funniest thing about the trip was when we had [...]
April 14th, 2009 | by Simon | published in Advertising, Scotland, Travel
This is an advert produced by the Scottish Government to publicise Homecoming Scotland. It does actually make me want to go back home! Hooray for Scotland!
January 5th, 2009 | by Simon | published in Family, Travel
Well I’m back at home now after a relaxing Christmas break, and back to work today as well. I went to visit my family in London this year for Christmas, and we all went off to a very nice hotel (in the pic above) for four days over Christmas. It was great to chill out [...]
October 19th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Film / TV, Friends, Travel
So a couple of weekends ago, me and me ol’ mucker Jill headed off to London to see Strictly Come Dancing, which our mate Christine Bleakley is taking part in this year. If you live in the US, Strictly Come Dancing is our version of Dancing With The Stars.
Now I must confess I don’t really [...]
October 19th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Photography, Travel
An old abandoned hotel in Corpus Christi
October 19th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Dallas, Travel, airlines
I had to do a mileage run when I was out in Dallas. That’s basically taking a flight for no other reason but to keep your status with an airline frequent flyer programme. I needed 500 miles to go platinum with American Airlines. I know it sounds stupid, but there are big pluses to having [...]
March 16th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Music, Travel, Work
Day 3 at South by Southwest baby! I can honestly say the weather has been brilliant this week – it’s been around 95° every day, which is very nice.
Thursday then was to have the same pattern as the next couple of days for me really. Rigsy, our presenter, Feargal and Jim, our cameraman went out [...]
March 16th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Music, Travel, Uncategorized, Work
Day two at South by Southwest! And I have got a bit behind with this so have some catching up to do!
Wednesday was our first day filming – so we went off to a Belfast / Nashville Sister City party to hear and film some Northern Irish acts performing. The main attraction for a lot of people [...]
March 13th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Music, Travel
So on Monday, we arrived in Austin, Texas for South by Southwest 2008 – it’s the biggest music industry gathering in the world, with over 1700 bands attending and playing showcases during the week. We’re staying at a hotel a bit out of the centre, which is slightly annoying, as it’s a 10 minute taxi [...]
