You may need to add ‘thorough leg warm up’ to the top of your pre-flight checklist, as some of Europe’s low-cost airlines could be introducing a new standing-only seating option as early as next year....
We’ve been spoilt for choice in the European train travel department recently, haven’t we? A whole host of handy new rail routes have been popping up, ready to speedily and sustainably whisk passengers acros...
Getting your hands on a shiny new passport is about to get a tad pricier as the government has just announced that (subject to parliamentary approval) the cost of applying for a UK passport will be going up. Again. So,...
Considering that the entire extent of my moon-related knowledge comes from a nineties Jaffa Cake advert, the prospect of a ‘blood moon’ sounded pretty darn terrifying to me at first. But upon further researc...
In today’s episode of ‘affordable train travel does actually still exist – who’d have thought it?’, we’re heading across the channel (because the UK could never), and hopping aboard t...
Star-gazers and space-lovers, gather round – you’re going to want to hear this. In what could be one of the greatest planetary displays we’ve seen in years; six planets will be gracing the night sky at...
I know it may be hard to believe, but it turns out that affordable train travel does actually still exist. And it just so happens that Europe is preparing to welcome yet another cheap and cheerful rail route as we speak...
Look, I know that the concept of a train ticket that doesn’t resemble the cost of a small mortgage seems pretty out of reach for us Brits at the moment. But it turns out that cheap-and-cheerful train travel does a...
As you might have noticed, here at Secret Birmingham, we’ve got a bit of a soft spot for our city. There’s nowhere quite like it. And certainly nowhere else we could imagine ourselves living. Unless, of cour...
