Accra is going ga-ga over Barack Obama’s impending first visit to Africa as the President of the United States. He’s scheduled to be in Ghana on July 10.
Taking this opportunity to milk President Obama’s immense popularity in Ghana and timed to coincide with his visit to the African nation, and also the celebration of America’s Independence on the 4th of July, […]

Posted on July 6th, 2009 by Thomas
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The British never cease to amaze. Seems like they’re always upto no good, and somehow end up foisting on the world one scatterbrained scheme after another. But this is one time I probably wouldn’t mind their scheme jumping across the Atlantic from London to New York.
Because London Breaks and the Daily Mail are offering an intriguing promotion […]

Posted on June 26th, 2009 by Thomas
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Few months back, a British couple was caught having sex on one of Dubai’s beaches, and they got their due come-uppance. Then another nutty British tourist starts swimming in the moat surrounding the Japanese Emperor’s Palace. All-in-all, British tourists have earned a bad rep for creating trouble while on vacation.
But now the chickens have come home to […]

Posted on May 2nd, 2009 by Thomas
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If you’re a mystery/murder buff, and you have £2,400 lying around a-wasting, you have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to spend a week wallowing in the hallowed Devon vacation home of the Queen of mystery thrillers.
Greenway, near Dartmouth, was purchased by Agatha Christie in 1938, and she spent three summers here with her second husband Max Mallowan. Greenway, along with […]

Posted on April 23rd, 2009 by Thomas
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Planning to go to London for a vacation and take a ride on one those famed red double-decker buses? Go ahead, but make sure you don’t take any pictures of the double-deckers. Apparently they’re state secrets, and if a would-be wackadoo raghead were to see said picture, you could end up as an accessory to an […]

Posted on April 20th, 2009 by Thomas
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The Olympics present a splendid opportunity for various civil rights groups and other sundry hell-raisers to blackmail the authorities into compromising, because they don’t really want to fan the media flames over some minor incident, fearing that it could escalate into an international embarrasment.
And so it begins for the Britons. According to the BBC, a […]

Posted on March 26th, 2009 by Thomas
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What’s the first thing that British tourists do when they land up at a foreign destination? They start whining, is what.
This according to the “European Travel Trend Survey,” conducted by Sweden based Kairos Future, based on data collected from 11,000 people in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Britain, Germany and the Netherlands. The survey fingers Britons as the […]

Posted on March 24th, 2009 by Thomas
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Christopher Rodrigues, head honcho of Visit Britain, says that British hotel staff are grumpy and surly, and offer shoddy service to tourists, which he says could cost up to 50,000 jobs in hotels and restaurants because foreign visitors to Britain are put off by poor service and high prices.
In an interview to the Independent (H/T Guardian), Rodrigues […]

Posted on January 27th, 2009 by Thomas
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There’s a large basket, 20ft wide and 10 ft high, weighing a quarter of a ton, with over 100 varieties of plants and flowers inside, hanging on the side of the new Hotel Indigo London Paddington, owned by London Town Hotels. It’s the world’s biggest hanging basket, and it’s being called the ‘The Hanging Gardens of […]

Posted on January 20th, 2009 by Thomas
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Some time back, we wrote about a string of high profile planned mega resorts in the middle-east, including the Nakheel Tower project and Atlantis the Palm and it’s $20 million launch party. At that time, oil was at an all time high, and the sheiks were probably going giddy with all the petro dollars flowing into their […]

Posted on January 15th, 2009 by Thomas
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