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London has wonderful, gloomy cemeteries. It is useful to think of them as spacious open air museums that preserve an atmosphere of stillness amid the tumult of the city. The association with celebrated personalities makes things even more exciting for the graveyard tourist. Within the bounds of Greater London there are seven famous ones and people call them the “Magnificent Seven”.
Posted: 2008-04-04
Category: Travel & Leisure
Drinking in New York is like drinking anywhere else. But Americans will expect a 15% tip according to most guides and this means, in practice, forking out a one dollar note extra every time you go to the bar. Bearing this in mind the canny drinker will go somewhere with a pleasant view, at least then he might feel he’s getting his money’s worth.
Posted: 2008-04-04
Category: Travel & Leisure
Before it became a territory for men to dispute, Cyprus was home to dwarf elephants and an equally diminutive version of the hippopotamus. This phenomenon is well known in nature where an absence of predators negates the advantage afforded by bulk. Elephants are not to be seen these days on the island (at least not by the sober) although there is still a unique kind of mouse here (Mus cypriacus).
Posted: 2008-04-02
Category: Travel & Leisure
For hundreds of years the Anglo-Norman colonisers made few inroads into the Irish hinterland. Coastal strips around Dublin and Wexford were settled quickly and these areas were defended. Indeed, the word “pale” refers to a wooden stake which would have been a component of these defences.
Posted: 2008-04-01
Category: Aviaton
Frankfurt does not have an established reputation as a short break destination. This is because most people recognise the city as a European financial centre and this tends to dampen the interest of visitors. However there is plenty here to merit a short break.
Posted: 2008-03-31
Category: Finance
A 70 year old driver was born into a world in which the horse drawn plough was still a familiar sight. It’s a different world today and a new study from the Institute of Advanced Motoring indicates that our senior citizens are ill-equipped to cope with increasingly snarled up highways and byways.
Posted: 2008-03-31
Category: Insurance
The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) was developed to ease the burden on astronauts encased in their bulky suits. It was deployed in three of the latter Apollo missions (Apollo 15, 16 & 17). With a top speed of barely 10mph and a total range of around 70 miles it sounds underwhelming. However the achievement of housing a folding car in a tiny landing craft is mammoth.
Posted: 2008-03-28
Category: Insurance
The coastal areas of the state are quite flat but the land rises to nearly 5,000 feet in the MacDonnell Range of the interior. Otherwise the landscape is arid and characterised by shifting dunes. Tropical storms sweep down across the coast with some regularity. Indeed, Darwin was practically obliterated in a hurricane at the end of the nineteenth century.
Posted: 2008-03-27
Category: Travel & Leisure
The real inconvenience of driving the sQuba in its particular element is the bind of having to bring your own oxygen, to say nothing of wearing a wet suit. Nevertheless for anyone with a bit of Roger Moore in them or indeed anyone with a fancy for things submarine, what could be more exciting than driving underwater?
Posted: 2008-03-27
Category: Cars
The compelling spectacle of young, sunburnt Brits trawling and trashing bars in Ibiza, egged on by boorish tour reps, has been well documented in the media.
Posted: 2008-03-25
Category: Travel Tips
Beloved of science fiction writers for decades, the vision of the flying car transporting people to and from the office has remained distant from scientific reality. However, the NASA Personal Air Vehicle Challenge projects a future where helipads on rooftops are a common sight and traffic jams a distant memory.
Posted: 2008-03-17
Category: Insurance
Whoever said “Life’s a beach” might have been talking about Qatar. The lone, level sands of this Gulf Emirate stretch from one coast to the other with little between but for the occasional decaying mud-built fort.
Posted: 2008-03-17
Category: Vacations
The pay day loans sector is growing quickly in the States. Credit is granted quickly upon the security of a monthly pay or benefit cheque and interest is charged at a consistently high rate. American legislation may forbid direct payments from social services to lenders but these have found a loophole in the rules. These loan providers often work with banks and it is the banks that transfer borrowers’ money to loan companies
Posted: 2008-03-06
Category: Loans
For those caught in the snare of Germany’s capitalist system that have been cast aside like so many worn out shoes, it is not easy to get credit. Some amongst the 7,500 BMW staff made redundant in Munich this week (despite the car makers’ record profits) are bound to discover the truth of this shortly.
Posted: 2008-03-04
Category: Credit
In order for a small business to have a loan approved in Germany the first thing that needs to be established is the creditworthiness of the applicant. The way that this is done is now quite standardized across the commercial credit sector.
Posted: 2008-03-04
Category: Credit
