Posted in Budget, Cheap Activities, Drink, Europe, Food, Free Stuff, Lodging, Museums, Public Transport, Spain, Travel, Web Tips, tagged Barcelona, Girona, Madrid, Valladolid on 15 May 2008 | No Comments »
A nine-day trip to four Spanish cities, including airfare to/from the UK, for under 150 euros? I’ll show you how after the jump.
Posted in Airports, Cheap Activities, Europe, Free Stuff, Internet Access, Luggage, Museums, Public Transport, Rail, Travel, United Kingdom, Web Tips, tagged day trips, London, Stansted on 7 May 2008 | No Comments »
An unfortunate scenario: you’ve booked yourself on two low-cost flights connecting at London Stansted airport and find yourself with an entire day to kill between them.
Common sense dictates that if you’ve got less than four hours between arrival and the next two-hour check-in window, you simply stay put. There are plenty of restaurants [...]
Posted in Airports, Cheap Activities, City Tips, Europe, Free Stuff, Museums, Online Media, Public Transport, Rail, Travel, United Kingdom, Web Tips, tagged London, Stansted Airport on 30 April 2008 | 1 Comment »
Getting to and from Stansted Airport Cheaply
If you want to save money on airport transportation, moral of the story is: BOOK EARLY and ONLINE.
Absolute cheapest when booked in advance is easyBus, where you can snag fares as low as £4 each way (plus 25p booking fee). Since planning for my own trip, they [...]
Posted in Budget, Cheap Activities, Europe, Free Stuff, Travel, United Kingdom, tagged London on 28 April 2008 | 7 Comments »
Another five days in London, including flights to/from Berlin, once again cost me under £100. How did I do it? I lay my budget bare and reveal the winner of the Reader Tips contest for London after the jump.
Posted in Cheap Activities, Food, Free Stuff on 26 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
Readers in the northern hemisphere have already had their first taste of spring (between spells of bad weather), while those in the south are watching autumn slowly wind towards winter. Here is your chance to enjoy your first/last ice cream outing of the season on [...]
Posted in Cheap Activities, Free Stuff, Museums, Public Transport, Travel, USA, Web Tips on 28 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here’s a freebie I’ve been sitting on for awhile:
The Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle offers free boat rides every Sunday from 2-3 p.m. Reservations are highly recommended and can be made in person only at the Center’s front desk.
Also Sundays, starting at 1 p.m., visitors are invited to work on a 37-foot log [...]
Posted in Airports, Cheap Activities, Contest, Europe, Food, Reader Tips, Spain, Travel, United Kingdom on 20 March 2008 | 12 Comments »
Per yesterday’s post, I’m off in April for my first trip to Spain and have tied in time in gateway country England as well. That’ll be 4.5 days in London, .5 days passing through Valladolid to Madrid (unless someone argues I should spend more time there), 4 days in Madrid, 3.5 days in Barcelona, [...]
Posted in Airlines, Cheap Activities, Europe, Luggage, Public Transport, Rail, Sale, Travel, Web Tips on 20 March 2008 | 10 Comments »
If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been, I’ll let you in on today’s activity: RyanAir is advertising another of their “no taxes, no fees, no charges” sales. Included are flights for the month of April only. Tickets must be purchased by midnight tonight. The good news: despite the booking engine [...]
Posted in Cheap Activities, Europe, Travel, Web Tips, tagged Chicago, Dublin, Fugitive, Harrison Ford, Ireland, St. Patrick's Day on 17 March 2008 | No Comments »
. . . on St. Patrick’s Day. Put on a little green, have yourself a corned beef and drink a pint of Guinness. Or better yet, sit down this evening with a big bowl of popcorn and watch The Fugitive. (Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks of that movie on [...]
Posted in Asia, Australia, Carnivals, Cheap Activities, China, Food, Free Stuff, Museums, Online Media, Packing, Travel on 15 March 2008 | 7 Comments »
Welcome to the fourth Travel on a Shoestring Carnival for Asia, Oz. Here you’ll find Asian, Australian, New Zealand and Oceania travel tips for those without a lot of money to spend.
Photographic inspiration this week is courtesy of Karen Castle. Her image of Niall David Begley’s Swaanen is from the annual Sculpture by the Sea [...]
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