Revisiting Old Ground.

It’s been well over a year since I’ve been doing any sort of serious travelling – so long in fact, that Hostelworld recently sent me an e-mail asking me (paraphrasing heavily) something along the lines of did I not like them anymore(?!), which is a hint if ever there was one that you haven’t been anywhere exciting lately. (Although, the truth in this is also that I stay in less and less hostels all the time, given the relative discomfort of... Read More

Let’s Fly The BA Way… – Part II

Well, for anyone who had been eagerly waiting to hear how the rest of my trip to London and back with BA went, my apologies for the delay but I think everyone accepts that me getting work done through Christmas and the New Year while back home in Dublin was evidently not going to happen!   What do we make of BA? In the end of course, it’ll come as no surprise to anyone that my second drink – my benchmark test of how caring airline staff are... Read More

Let’s Fly The BA Way…

Cheap, Toronto, let's do it... A couple of years ago, the opportunity presented itself by way of sheer cheapness, to travel with British Airways from Dublin to Toronto via London Heathrow. I was excited for all the nerdy travel reasons – first up, my previous trips to Canada had been with renowned cattle-class specialists Zoom Airlines, who had since ceased to exist, and had been of a quality ranging from relatively to completely awful. Secondly,... Read More