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5 Abandoned Victorian Bath Houses “Open” for Exploration
October 18, 2011 | Featured | Read More
Modern swimmers might be slightly grossed-out to learn that Victorian bath houses weren’t constructed only for popular enjoyment or communal exercise. They were built to literally keep people clean. Most of the factory workers that flooded into cities during the turn of the century didn’t...
10 Maps You Didn’t Know You Needed
August 15, 2011 | Featured | Read More
Maps are a traveler’s bible. Whether you prefer your maps digital, interactive, or the old-school fold up kind, we would never recommend leaving home without one. A good map gives its user logical information–directions, topography, street names…you know, the important stuff. While...
UK Hotel Must Pay Damages for Wrongly Banning Gays from Sharing Room
January 27, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
While a small hotel near Penzance, a town in Cornwall, argued that they were following their personal views in banning non-married couples from sharing their double rooms, two men from Bristol successfully sued and won damages.
Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy had tried to rent a double room from Peter...
Will and Kate Plus 2 Million Britons are Taking April Off
January 21, 2011 | Travel News, UK | Read More
Being royalty has its benefits for Prince William of England and his fiancee Kate Middleton, but two million UK residents can also enjoy some perks – that many Britons are expected to take advantage of the prodigious timing of the wedding between the two.
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Beware of GuestScan, a Now-Legal Way to Find Travel Malcontents
October 8, 2010 | Travel News, UK | Read More
Revelry has its place in travel; after all the best way to enjoy a new place is with the company of those who live there, especially during festivals and other holiday activities. However, if you’re the type of partier who overachieves, you might want to make sure your name doesn’t appear...
11 Dumbest “Sporting” Events for the Non-Athlete in All of Us
July 31, 2010 | Featured | Read More
While quite a few NileGuide staffers are marathon runners, cyclists, even daredevils, some of us NileGuiders are the kids who got picked last in gym class, never made it onto varsity, and still don’t own a pair of cross trainers. Even though some of us will never win the New York Marathon or climb...
Cliveden House: Tour the Scene of a Political Scandal
July 16, 2010 | Travel News | Read More
People call it the biggest political sex-scandal of the 20th century, even bigger than the Clinton-Lewinsky affair. And most Americans have never heard of it.
Regardless, it was the political scandal that could have possibly helped upturn Harold Macmillan’s then-Conservative U.K. government, thus...
Modern Architecture Taste Test Provided To UK Holidaymakers
May 14, 2010 | Budget, UK | Read More
Vacations are supposed to be relaxing, which in many locations means architectural styles that haven’t changed much in the past century or longer in some locations. Alain de Botton is planning on changing that.
He’s a leading philosopher who wrote “The Art of Travel,” and whose...
British Family Forgets About Tide in West Midlands Vacation Spot, Ocean Borrows Car
April 29, 2010 | Travel News, Travel Safety, UK | Read More
Surfers and fishermen know the value of timing high and low tides, but a family in the United Kingdom didn’t realize that station wagons can also be taken in by the sea.
They had wanted to test out a jet ski at Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, according to the Daily Mail, and left their car near the...
Top 10 Reasons to Visit Brighton, England
November 30, 2009 | Brighton, Top 5/10 Lists | Read More
In Brighton anything goes and everyone has a good time. There are plenty of opportunities to be naughty but you can surf the straight and narrow and still have a blast. Read on for ten reasons to pay Brighton a visit:
No one is marginalized in Brighton. You’ll see drag stars in the supermarket, Goths...
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