January 27th, 2012
The Working Traveller
A lot of travel bloggers are chasing sponsored or press trips at the moment. Tour boards and travel businesses are increasingly aware of the benefits of arranging transport and accommodation for writers. In return most bloggers are happy to experience a new destination at little cost to them.
There is quite a bit of useful information out there on the subject already. The latest article I have seen is by Ryan Brown of Just Chuckin’ It. Writing at TravMonkey he recounts how finding a naked stranger asleep in his hostel bed led to getting taken on as the persona of the Nomads’ mascot camel.
January 26th, 2012
The Working Traveller
Where: Paris, Toulouse and Bordeaux
Who: FrogPubs
FrogPubs need help pulling some of the one million pints of bitter, lager, wheat beer, ginger, spicy and fruit beers served each year in their seven English pubs across France.
Popular with expats and anglophiles, each FrobPub has its own microbrewery producing beers with names like Inseine, Dark le Triomphe and Parislytic to accompany restaurant food and British sports on the TV.
Gap year students are provided with a structured training programme and health insurance as they learn lessons in greeting and serving customers, driving sales and maintaining a clean environment. Staff are need both in the bar and in the kitchen.
January 25th, 2012
The Working Traveller
The first time I saw an elephant outside of an enclosure I was incompetently riding around Ko Samui on a motorbike. This was my second time on a bike. Though encouraged I hadn’t crashed into a stationary milk float this time I found working down the gears difficult and needed a runway longer than that required by a 747 to come to a halt.
The thing about elephants is they are quite big. Despite plenty of warning from first sighting the animal in the distance to actually stopping I still perhaps got a tad too close.
January 24th, 2012
The Working Traveller
When music teacher Frano Selak gave away the £600,000 he won in the Croatian lottery he made headlines around the world. But his win wasn’t the first time Selak had made the headlines or the event that has had him dubbed the world’s luckiest man.
In 1963, Selak was blown out of an airplane when the door blew off. 19 people died but Selak landed in a haystack and survived with minor injuries.
This wasn’t Selak’s first brush with death. The year previously Selak’s train to Dubrovnik derailed into an icy river. 17 passengers died but Selak survived with hypothermia and a broken arm.
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