Taking a long distance, expensive holiday can test your conscience. You worry about the Co2 emissions from the flight, about that big expensive hotel with all those staff and that enormous heating (or air conditioning) bill. Isn’t the best model for sustainable tourism a cosy little “staycation” in your home country to which you travel… Continue reading
Is this the greenest fleet of company cars in Britain?
RCS Printers, a printing company in Retford, Nottinghamshire, has bought six Nissan Leaf all-electric cars for use by its employees. The cars will be powered with renewable energy, generated by solar panels recently fitted on the company’s roof. So this ought to be, near enough, zero-emission driving. Using the slowest form of powering up, simply… Continue reading →
Peaceful Abu Dhabi passes new tourism test
The second test match between England and Pakistan (January, 2012) shone a fresh media spotlight on Abu Dhabi. I was there recently. The place of the gazelle is less frantic than Dubai, its near nighbour in the United Arab Emirates in the Gulf. As well as a peaceful place to play big sporting events, the… Continue reading →
Countryside retreats for all seasons – UK holiday parks, the reality
Wanted. Somewhere to take 11 family members and friends, aged 12 to 90, for a big birthday celebration. It had to be in the South of England, and in the country. We didn’t want to pay hotel prices. And we needed self catering. Oh, and entertainment and activity to suite three generations. And it was… Continue reading →
Birmingham receives double tourist boost
I cannot fathom why Birmingham is routinely mocked, if only in fun. The city centre is grandly impressive, with powerful, restored old buildings such as City Hall, integrated across a great European style piazza with Symphony Hall and the conference centre, leading through to the resplendent canal district. The mistakes – the Bull Ring and the cramped… Continue reading →
Which is more important – a car’s top speed or its Co2 output?
The Week includes a weekly “New Cars” section, a useful digest of what motoring journalists are saying about the latest models. Useful, that is, unless you’re interested in the one detail which we are said to to care about more than anything else as drivers, the cost of fuelling our cars. Very often these vital… Continue reading →