Financial & Travel Musings

If you’ve a holiday property you’ll know that people are always on the lookout for postcards, so why not offer them your ones.

The business of postcard printing is pretty simple these days. Basically you just need to pick out a suitable image, add some wording (including your contact details obviously), upload it and a matter of days later you’ll be set to start selling your postcards.

Incidentally, don’t be thinking that you can give them away as a great marketing ploy. As with all marketing, there’s generally only a 1% return so even if your postcards only cost 10p that would mean that bookings brought in that way would cost around £10. Not disastrously bad if people only take one but don’t leave a whole stack of them in each room.

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What is with this country? The second busiest airport in the country is closed, trains are stranded and thousands of people can’t get out of their houses. All because of a relatively small amount of snow.

What on earth would it be like if there was another mini iceage like they had in the 1800s when the Thames was regularly frozen?

Ironically, it would probably be a whole lot easier going. The reason for many of the problems this year is simply that the UK as a whole simply isn’t prepared for really cold weather. Were it to be a regular feature of our climate then more money would be thrown at the problem and many of the difficulties that we’re currently experiencing would go away. After all, colder countries don’t have all these issues.

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Between one thing and another we’ve not managed a proper holiday this year and could really do with one.

Since the kids are at school now we need to fit our holidays around the school breaks so as we’re in the midst of the Halloween break right now we thought we’d have a go at getting away for a few days before they’ve to go back. Ideally we’d have planned it all out of course but the September to October period has been particularly hectic for us so we only really had a chance to start thinking about it when the holiday actually started.

That means short break of course. Probably a few days. And, naturally, one that doesn’t involve a whole lot of travel.

Our thinking at the moment is the Republic of Ireland though we’re drawn towards Scotland too. Where-ever it turns out to be, it’ll need to be shorted sharpish.

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