Marbella Puerto Banus Beach Clubs – Nikki Beach, Buddha Beach and Ocean Beach.

On a recent trip to Marbella for a hen do we booked into and visited one of the beach clubs, Buddha Beach, in Puerto Banus.  There are a few beach clubs to choose from in Marbella, although the three main ones prove most popular and are frequented by the beautiful and tanned people visiting Marbella, plus hen [...]

Social Media Marketing Bootcamp – 12th May 2011

I’m helping organise and will be attending the Social Media Marketing Bootcamp this Thursday at Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford. If you want to attend it’s your last chance to book! See details below: This programme of concise, easily digested seminars explores all aspects of social media including LinkedIn, twitter, facebook and location-based social networking [...]

Nominated for an award!

I have to apologise, it’s been far too long since I wrote on my blog, it’s been busy at work and I’m afraid finding time has been difficult.  But my labour has not been in vain, given the holidayholiday website is doing well, and I’ve now found out I’ve been nominated for an award – the [...]

Holiday Insider named site of the day!

The Holiday Insider blog has been listed as blog of the day on the website travelblogsites.com run by the well known team at Travelpod. The blog is a comprehensive directory of independent travel blogs on the web. Their aim is to rank the blogs weekly and profile the best ones on a daily basis. If [...]

Afternoon Tea

I spent the weekend in London, celebrating a friend’s birthday.  Part of this weekend involved going for afternoon tea!  I seem to have been to a few places for afternoon tea now, perhaps I am getting old, or perhaps it is becoming more fashionable – who knows?!  In fact, according to the Observer afternoon tea [...]

Travel Blog Camp

So I have signed up to go to travel blog camp this year, run by Darren Cronian of Travel Rants fame.  It is happening in the week of the World Travel Market, which I attend every year at Excel in London.  The ‘camp’, much to my relief, is in a london bar somwhere (tba).  I’m looking [...]

Blog Action Day 09:Climate Change: Take Action!

This Year, Blog Action Day (15th Oct) is about Climate Change.  Run in conjunction with Change.org, it is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day. The aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion. And what better than to focus on Climate Change.  Working in [...]

Meeting a Lion

Well, any of you that read the travel industry magazines will have seen my pic this week in TTG.  With a lion.  Yes that’s correct with a lion, not a stuffed one or even doped one, but a 2 year old live lion in New Zealand.  This picture was taken as part of my travel around [...]