Year: 2017

The Northern lights
Travel

How to see the northern lights on a camping trip Scotland

The aurora borealis is the most spectacular light show on earth. If you’ve long dreamed of seeing the phenomenon for yourself, but travelling to Iceland or Norway is out of your budget, then there’s still a chance you could see them by camping out in rural Scotland. Just read on to learn how you can maximise your chances of seeing the northern lights. Why Scotland? … Continue reading How to see the northern lights on a camping trip Scotland

James Cole
Travel

Best traveller & tourist destinations for 2018

Must be time to indulge in some travel porn and explore what the best destinations are for 2018. Right now, the rain is hitting the conservatory roof, the light is grey, and the light from the laptop screen is the brightest and warmest thing I can cling on to. To make things worse, I have facebook friends currently taunting me from Thailand, Fuerteventura, Abu Dhabi, … Continue reading Best traveller & tourist destinations for 2018

James Cole
Travel

What’s the real risk of travel?

A new interactive ‘Travel Risk Map’ for 2018 highlights risk ratings across the world as global survey uncovers that two-thirds (63%) of people think travel risks have increased in the past year – with security threats and natural disasters cited as main reasons for changed travel plans. The past year has been a royal pain in the proverbial, with terror attacks taking place in Turkey, … Continue reading What’s the real risk of travel?

James Cole
Work

Don’t react

I have this dream of an ideal morning whereby I wake, stretch, walk slowly but purposefully downstairs, reach for the cold-brew coffee, pour myself a cup and sit down at the laptop and write. But the truth stops much earlier in that process where I wake, stretch, reach for my phone to read the time and then the notifications. Half an hour later of reading … Continue reading Don’t react

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Jenny Evans Designs: Dragonfly
House

Jenny Evans wins Entrepreneurship award

Jenny Evans, a Cardiff School of Art and Design student who started an enterprising textile design business shortly before starting her university course, was declared the winner of the 2017 Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards at the national ceremony in London this month. Jenny beat off stiff competition in the UK-wide awards which attracted thousands of entries. As the winner of the post-revenue category, she will … Continue reading Jenny Evans wins Entrepreneurship award

James Cole
House

Building a community: Canvey Island

From one perspective, when a group of similar individuals all set up home in the same area – that becomes a ready-made community. From another perspective that’s considered an immigration nightmare, a population takeover – and when this happens in numbers large enough, the xenophobic among us tend to refer to this as a ‘ghetto’. The truth is that us humans aren’t massive fans of change and … Continue reading Building a community: Canvey Island

James Cole