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I sometimes forget we live on and island. You mention the word island and it conjures up long sandy beaches, palm trees and clear blue sea but we do live on one and albeit a bit colder sometimes. The narrow stretch of water called the English Channel has kept hordes of invaders away during two World...
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Chrisoakes
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23 Apr 2010
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Filed under: oakes, holidaytaxis.com, taxis, scotland, agents, home workers, chris, airport, spain, Thomas Cook, manchester airport, Ryanair, COOP, reps, TUI, evacuation, volcano
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Apologies as it has been some weeks since my last blog. Since the Travel Convention I have managed to squeeze in a family holiday at last to sunny Tenerife. Travel is amazing as I have still have some friends over there Roberto and Karina that I worked with and Adi and Ruth and even though it has been...
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Taken from this weeks Sunday times another classic Ryanair act of diplomacy....... IT’S SCRATCHCARDS AT DAWN The chief executive of the no-frills airline Germanwings has sparked a furious row with Ryanair by predicting that the Irish giant would go out of business. “The Ryanair model is coming...
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Ok so just back from the much anticipated Faro FAM Trip jointly hosted by Avro, Cosmos, Holidaytaxis.com and of course our country hosts the Portuguese National Tourist Board – so was it a success? From our point of view every agent was excellent...
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Hi It’s been a few weeks and I have been travelling far and wide up and down the UK and Ireland. This for a lot of us is conference season and over the next few months I am away to Faro with 45 luck agents courtesy of HTX, PNTO and Cosmos so watch this space for the photos! In October Barcelona...
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Oakesy's little acorns.....
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Chrisoakes
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9 Sep 2009
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Filed under: travel, oakes, cosmos, taxis, Hays, agents, taxi, chris, airport, Fam Trip, Faro
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Ok – so we all here about rip off Britain. Latest culprit Manchester Airport!! I have just booked flights with an airline and had to pay £60 quid for bags – I know it’s a rip off, however you know they are going to charge you. Yesterday morning going through security at Manchester...
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I have just returned from a week at the Holiday Village in Benalmadena. I booked my package through an agent – however opted not to take their transfer and used one of our private transfers. In these days of incremental income agents are getting savvier and by offering services such as these greatly...
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Off on my holidays – and yes booked with a travel agent – after 21 years in travel I still have a huge loyalty and being a family man (not married but been dating 17 years) I have to go up an aisle one day – and that is of course and aircraft! I have booked private transfers with my...
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Oakesy's little acorns.....
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Chrisoakes
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2 Jul 2009
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Filed under: travel, oakes, holidaytaxis.com, taxis, ABTA, agents, taxi, airport, Benalmadena, spain, katona
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Worried about your pensions - take a look at this ingenious idea to feather your nest!! F rom the Bristol Evening Post: Outside Bristol Zoo is the car park, with spaces for 150 cars and 8 coaches. It has been manned 6 days a week for 23 years by the same charming and very polite car park attendant with...
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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Next week I am back in the homeland of Scotland at the fantastic setting for this year’s SPAA Summer Ball - the Cameron House Hotel on Loch Lomond so hope to see many of our Scottish colleagues on my travels or at the event...