October 7th, 2009 | by Simon | published in Travel
I’ve always wanted to go surfing, so when I was in Australia I was determined to give it a shot and have a lesson. So I scooted across to Manly Surf School, for a two hour beginners lesson. Jill decided she didn’t want to participate, and no-one else turned up to begin with so I [...]
October 7th, 2009 | by Simon | published in Food and Drink, Travel
Ok I’ve been tardy with the posts again. I just have a couple of Sydney related posts and then it’ll be back to normal, even though I’ve been back like a month!
One restaurant I was really keen to go to when I was in Sydney was Bill’s. Bill Granger’s done a couple of TV shows [...]
September 7th, 2009 | by Simon | published in Travel
Dustin Curtis (who has an amazingly designed blog) and his friend Alaska Miller (no relation) are about to undertake a 30 day trip to visit every destination jetBlue serve (thanks to an All You Can Jet pass jetBlue put on sale recently).
They’re going to strike up conversations with fellow travellers and see if they can [...]
August 30th, 2009 | by Simon | published in Travel
So Jill and I have spent our first week down under, and it’s just been amazing. Read on for more about what we’ve been up to in our first week!
July 31st, 2009 | by Simon | published in Friends, Travel
Me any my mate Jill are off on one of these soon! A couple of us had been looking to get away from the dreadful Belfast summer to someplace hot for two weeks. Amazingly I managed to discover a little known, short-term offer on BA.com and Jill and I managed to score two return flights [...]
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 [...]
