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This evening there has been breaking news announced that there has been a terrorist attack on one of Russia’s main airports on the outskirts of Moscow. It has been confirmed this evening that two British tourists are amongst the 35 people who have been confirmed as dead. There are also suspected to be approximately 135 people who have been injured in the attack too. It appears as if this was a suicide attack at the airport and it is claimed by some eye witnesses that the suicide bomber was an ‘Arab-looking man, aged between 30 to 35’. The blast has been confirmed as happening at 4:30pm local time in the arrivals hall of Domodedovo Airport, outside of Moscow. This airport is the busiest of capital’s three airports, situated 26 miles outside Moscow.

Well, it might be January outside, the temperature might just about be above freezing but according to the high street we all need to be buying our summer clothes already. I went shopping in Liverpool this weekend – wrapped up in a hat, coat, gloves and UGG boots – only to find some shops were already bursting with summer staples for our wardrobes! There were bikini’s, sunglass, kaftans and flip flops in the shops as I waked around looking for the nearest coffee shop to warm up in. I am all for brining the summer sunshine into shops early in the hope that warmer weather and lighter nights might follow, but I think that having beach wear in the shops in January is going just a bit too far!

Most people never take quite as many photos as when they go on holiday. Whether they are travelling around the world, experiencing cultural city breaks or just taking a week or two out of their hectic calendars, people love to get their cameras out and record all the sights they are awarded on their trips.

It makes sense to actually display these holiday snaps in a way that will keep your adventures fresh in your mind. It’s all well and good copying digital snaps onto your computer and then putting them on Facebook, but if you never look at your photos then the memories are likely to fade, without doing justice to your holiday.

One way of displaying your photos in a really attractive way is to make calendars out of them. Personalised calendars are a lovely touch, because they give you a new memory to ponder every month. You can design calendars like this yourself, so it is entirely up to you which snap corresponds to which month.

You might even want to get creative and compile calendars from holiday snaps from a number of different holidays, perhaps with snow-capped mountains depicting December, sunny beaches depicting August, and so on.

A decision on a miniskirt ban in a small seaside town is expected this week, the mayor of the town hopes a ban on the fashion item will help improve standards of public decency. If anyone ignores the ban they could face fines between £25 and £500. If it does go thought on the same policy it would also outlaw sunbathing and playing football in public places. People of Freedom party Bobbio, says he would like to introduce the measures to combat those who are “rowdy, unruly or simply badly behaved”. Some towns in Italy have already introduced bans on kissing in cars and building sandcastles.

As weird as this might sound, it has been proved that air traveling is the most secure mean of travel or should we say, where there is the less problem.

Train and cars are the most problematic with accidents repetitively happening. The boat is a pretty safe option but plane is still ahead with the least accidents across all mean of transports.

The downside is that the plane is not green and probably one of the most polluting transport on a per passager basis where electric train are of course the best choice.

Green or not, the choice is up to you but with pricing going down and down on flights tickets, most people will probably go for the cheapest.

It is this time of the year when everyone is starting to prepare for festival. Buying tickets, arranging accomodation, booking flights. The recent scandal of false festival tickets also concern the rest of the package. If you book a complete ticket+ accommodation + flight to go to on of those European festivals from a false company, it is not just the ticket that will be refused but also you accommodation and the flight, which even not exists.

So double and triple check everything, only book from trusted and known website. Check that the site has an https connection (if your browser shows a small locker in the bottom bar it should be fine).

The previously announced BA strike and the ash cloud still keeping some plane to the ground may have discouraged quite a few travelers.

AA has announced that roads will be much busier that other bank holiday due to the fact that less people are taking holidays abroad because of the current conditions, and will rather take their cars to drive somewhere close.

So if you are one of those grounded travelers beware of the traffic and try to prepare your journey in advance by departing in off pick hours for example.

Hope everyone has a very nice and long bank holiday weekend.

It has been announced that the staff of British Airways will go on strike again very soon. If you intend to fly from London beware and check with the airport / BA before going to the airport. Many flight should be canceled if the strike is followed by as many people as last time and we expect to see a few delays as well.

The staff are fighting management because of a salary problem, again, and the authorities haven’t said if they were going to honnor those revendications or not yet.

So as usual we will keep you posted on further development but for now it seems that you are flying with BA you’re not flying at all.

After a good week of break not hearing anything about Ash cloud, it comes back to haunt us. Airport have been grounding flights after flights recently and it looks like it will go back to the situation we had two weeks ago.

There is a ray of hope though as a new revision of the recommendation could mean more flight could be allowed to fly. The density of ash in the air where plane can still fly might be raised later today which would mean over 90% of the canceled planes would actually be allowed to fly.

We will of course try to get more information about that so stay tuned.

If you have ever booked using one of the numerous low cost airlines available, chances are you have been charged pricey charges that do not always make sense.

For example why should you pay transaction fees on a per way basis per passenger basis when you pay with one single card. They only do one transaction right? So where are those charges coming from? Rynair are probably the most famous for that, charging over the top fees for arguable reasons.