Guides > Travel Tips
This page will hopefully grow as I become more experienced with various forms of travel and holiday.
Online Booking
- Low cost airlines
- From the end of September, more European destinations will be serviced via Birmingham Airport.
Camping
Considerations
Inventory
- Torch
- Food
- Breakfast cereal
- Soya milk
- Games
- Cards
- Pictionary
- Timer
- Dice
- Pencils
- Paper
- Small selection of cards
- Clothing - can be washed, so no more than three days worth should be taken
- underwear
- t-shirts
- fleece
- jeans
- Bedding
- Fleece blanket
- Inflatable mattress or ground sheet
- Other
- Citronella candles
- Towel
- Book
- Tent
Costs
Skiing
Considerations
- Go for a small company in Austria, as it teaches all day, as opposed to French which only teach in the morning.
- For a first holiday, go with big names like Crystal, Thompson or Neilson.
- Go for a local lift pass, unless you plan to go on a day trip.
Inventory
- Clothing
- waterproofs
- trousers
- jacket
- goggles
- gloves
- ski suit
- woolly hat
- gloves
- sun cream
- sun block
- brown shoes
- swimming costume
- thick black trousers
- thick socks
- boots
- peak cap
- polo poncho
- photochromatic glasses
- salapettes
- small backpack
- towel
- fleece
- Food
- apples
- chocolates
- water
- breakfast cereal
- soya milk
- Other
- Photographs for a lift pass, although this may no longer be necessary.
- Mobile phone
- Mobile phone charger
- Toiletries
Costs
The typical cost of a seven day skiing holiday would be £633 made up of:
- Flights (£150)
- Accommodation (£200)
- Hire (£219)
- tuition (£58)
- skis and sticks (£40)
- lift pass (£103)
- boots (£18)
- Food (£8/day)
London
- Sightseeing:
- British Museum
- Madame Tussauds / Planetarium (£12.50)
- National Gallery
- Places to Eat
- 18:00 Wagamamas
- 10a Lexington Street, Soho, London, W1F 0LD
- A-Z page 61, 7G
Stratford-upon-Avon Area
- Stratford-upon-Avon [http://www.stratford-upon-avon.co.uk/]
- Warwick Castle [http://www.warwick-castle.co.uk].
- Explore the castle.
- Virtual reality tour.
- Full history.
- Things to see:
- Stables - entrance
- Victorian rose garden
- Archer
- Court Jester
- Armoury
- Dungeon
- Torture Chamber
- Kingmaker - passage running under and through the castle with animal and human figures done by Madame Tussaudes.
- Battlements:
- Clarence Tower
- Guy's Tower
- Gatehouse and Barbican
- Caesar's Tower
- Chapel
- Great Hall
- State Rooms
- Ghost Tower
- Red Knight
- The Mount - the oldest part of the castle dating back to 1068.
- River Island
- Wellesbourne Market - every Saturday from 09:00 to 16:00.
- Wellesbourne water mill
- Walk
- Wellesbourne
- Charlecote
- Forest of Arden
- Along the Avon and the Greenway
- Kenilworth castle
- Coventry Cathedral
- Hatton craft market
- The Saxon Sanctuary, Wootton Wawen
- Drive around the Cotswolds: [map]
Thailand
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