British Airways are considering pumping fragrance into the cabins on their planes to replicate the experience customers have when walking into expensive department stores. I sneeze and then get a headache when I walk through the perfume section of expensive department stores and I don’t want to spend 10 hours on a flight having that same experience. British Airways already use scents in their Executive Lounge in Heathrow and want to put this fragrance on the planes … Continue reading
Welcome to the new version of my blog “Views from the Slow Lane”! It has a new name, a new location and a new look. It was time to separate my blog from the Slow Europe website. Slow Europe is a website for finding vacation rentals in Europe. My blog is about me, England, travel – whatever. Lately I have not been posting much because we have been getting settled in England and spending every … Continue reading
This is a nice change – a vacation rental agency has interviewed me, instead of me interviewing them! Sarah from the US-based agency Haven in Paris wanted to know what I think about European vacation rentals. Haven In Paris Blog Interview – Slow Travels Through Europe At the end of May Steve and I spent a week in the Haven in Paris Ecoles apartment (read my review on Slow Europe). The apartment was centrally located … Continue reading
I am merging my blog on Cotswolder into Views from the Slow Lane (this blog), and doing some redesign on the blog, so everything is a mess right now.
Questions? I am happy to answer any questions about Europe travel and vacation rentals or point you to some good resources. ** Post your questions on our Slow Europe Facebook Page or as comments on any of these blog posts **
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! The Irish Premier recently came to the US and announced changes to their laws making it easier for Irish-Americans to get Irish citizenship. In this economic downturn, which has hit Ireland harder than any of the other EU countires, they are trying to get people to move to Ireland. The current law gives you Irish citizenship if one of your parents or grandparents was born in Ireland. You need proof of … Continue reading
- First Look – Coup d’Oeil – Primo Sguardo – Have a Butchers – A Primera Vista – Einen Blick – I am very pleased to announce that we have launched Slow Europe! We are still adding new vacation rental resources to our database and adding new countries (Germany and Switzerland are next), but we wanted everyone to get a first look now so people can start using the site and we can get some feedback. … Continue reading
“Affordable England” has been almost unthinkable in the past few years, with the pound at $2.00 at the start of 2008 (when we were in England), but on Friday the pound was below $1.60, making England more affordable to American tourists. The high for the pound was $2.11 in November 2007. On August 1 2008 the pound was at $1.97, then there was a steep dropoff to $1.75 by September 11 and $1.59 on Friday October 24. … Continue reading
The Towns and Villages of the Cotswolds section has been published on the website! I have been working on this section for the last several months (but kept getting interupted by other projects) and I am pleased to have it finished. For me, this means Cotswolder is finally a full website. I will write about more topics, and I want to reorganize how the material is presented, but the base of the website is now there … Continue reading
Cotswolder has a new look and a new logo – based on the spring bluebells. The look for this blog is mostly the old look, with a little of the new look here by mistake. I will get the blog and photo gallery changed over tomorrow. It is exhausting working on colors The Cotswolder logo was designed in July 2008 by Ginés Valera (www.mediacomm.es and www.lumina.es (under construction) – email: info@mediacomm.es). Ginés is Lumina on FeaturePics, … Continue reading