Hi, I’m John, TravelCrunch is a sort of travel blog. It does not stick to the conventions of being a weblog or journal but it is updated with various topics from the past, present and possibly discussions of the future.
Budget travel has always interested me and so has sharing my experiences with other travellers. As time goes on though I have become increasingly aware that the planet we inhabit has limited resources. The way we travel today will affect the travel aspirations of future generations even possibly their quality of life.
Treading lightly as we travel this beautiful world will ensure that our successors can enjoy it as much as we do.
This has been started to discuss these issues and share experiences and tips for travellers who are want keep the cost of their travel to themselves and the environment to a minimum.
Please feel free to challenge any of my views on here, I don’t profess to be an expert and I’m certainly not ‘holier than thou’.
Contact me:
If you would like to e-mail me then how about trying this: username@host.co.uk? Which will now get lots of spam from webots. But changing the “username” to “mail” and using the name of this blog instead of “host” will very likely deliver an e-mail to me. Me getting around to reading it may be a lot slower; so please be patient. If you would like to get me faster, a Tweet sent to @eurapart will land in my phone very quickly and is likely to be read.
A photo essay of the Udal Peninsula on North Uist, Western Isles, Scotland.
While walking the streets of Brussels, I am often aware that I am following in the footsteps of Georges Rémi, better known as Hergé, creator of Tintin. From where I type this article, I can see both of the schools he attended in his youth. He left his mark in the form [...]
It is the overhead snippets of conversation, that tells me that Winter Wonders or Plaisirs d’Hiver in French, is popular with visitors. “I was like…” the repeated “like” in twenty something females’ conversations. The oral version of a Facebook Wall. Or “I am lucky, as I can catch a train [...]
The theme for the photo sharing day on Twitter on Friday 18 November 2011 was Flags. If you look at my Twitter profile you will see that I tend to spend time between three locations. In this piece, I will include photos, including flags from each of these places. Wales [...]
There are a lot of widely held views built on hearsay and misinformation. The deeper I look, the more complicated the story seems to get. One of my aims is to educate myself on travel environmental issues. Then to share my findings on this site and hopefully start a discussion [...]
#FriFotos is the weekly photo sharing day on Twitter. On Friday November 11, the theme is “Fall”, but as is usual, it is open to interpretation. Fall is the term used for Autumn in North America. However, the eleventh of November is Armistice Day and a Public Holiday in much [...]
The abbey of Val-Dieu was founded in 1216 by Cistercian monks. Surviving wars, floods and moral crises, it was temporarily dissolved by the French Revolution. Then in 1844 with the aid of the church and the last surviving monk, it was re-established and flourished again for another 150 years. The [...]
Have you ever stood on a railway station concourse and stared longingly at destinations on the Departures Board that were not printed on your tickets? Have you ever found yourself on the road somewhere and found that the you were travelling along one of the world’s more famous long distance [...]
Street art Last week I visited the Ixelles Museum here in Brussels before their exhibition on Street Art closed and is replaced by a Dubuffet exhibition. Bonom was featured heavily, with insights into how he plans his pieces. The photo above shows a spider on a concrete building by Chapelle [...]
Why is it so many people aspire to fly in First Class, sleep in Five Star hotels (or even Seven Star hotels) and eat in Michelin Three Star restaurants? Don’t they know that it is very poor value for money? That you can sleep just as well in a £29 [...]
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Hi John,
Like your blog. I’m doing something very similar (www.horseshoenail.org), have added you to my blogroll
Natalie
Hi Natalie,
Thank you. I will be sure to add you to my blogroll when I update it from its very sparse state.
John
Like the new blog and nice article on yesterday’s TTOT debate.
DM me your blurb, I’ll add you to my blogroll
Catch you soon