A quick post to say that we have started our Summer 2009 Europe trip and are having a great time, but I am either too busy or too exhausted from the too busy, to post. I am tweeting when I can – @PaulineK. On Thursday evening we met Dana (@danamac) who I know from the SlowTrav community and from Twitter. Dana is the person who got me to join Twitter. Via Twitter we realized we … Continue reading
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Follow European Vacation Rental Owners on Twitter
I made a list of Europe vacation rentals owners, agency owners and rent-by-owner and home exchange websites who are on Twitter. Article on Slow Europe – Follow European Vacation Rental Owners on Twitter Twitter is a micro-blogging service where you post and read “tweets” of 140 characters or less. Learn more about vacation rentals in Europe by following owners and agencies on Twitter. They tweet about their vacation rentals and their local areas. It is … Continue reading
Home Base Holidays
Recently, on Twitter, I ran into Lois Sealey who lives in London and runs Home Base Holidays, a home exchange website. I know Lois from my SlowTrav days. Lately I have been interested in the idea of home exchanges, which in many ways are similar to staying in vacation rentals when you travel. You are staying in a home, not a hotel, and are based in a neighborhood where you experience a place as a local … Continue reading
Use Twitter to Get Alerts for UK Train Service
TechCrunch has a story today about using Twitter to follow weather and train service in the UK. As snow hits the UK the Twitter mashups storm in, TechCrunch, Mike Butcher, Feb 2, 2009. “There’s nothing like a breaking news event to show off the usefulness of Twitter. Today large swathes of the UK were blanketed in snow, but the Twitter feeds and mashups came to the rescue of anyone wanting real-time updates about what was … Continue reading
Upgrade Finished
Eight hours later – finished the upgrade. Upgrade was easy-peasey but interrupted by the snow stopping so went out to pickup our mail (they seem to be plowing more streets in Santa Fe this winter), endless loads of laundry (just got back from a 10-day trip to Tucson AZ), listening to Talk of the Nation (the news is a little too interesting these days), phone calls, making dinner (cauliflower and carrot soup, brown rice). Now … Continue reading