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✈️ Travel Talk #threadcast

Ep79 Tue 29-Oct-24

ℹ️ This is the #travelcast where we chat all things #travel on Leo

💬 Talk about your trips, discuss adventures and enjoy the world's delights!

  • Where have you been, and where would you like to go?
  • Post pics/vids, articles, tips, news and anything else related to travel
  • Tag #leotravel and join the LeoTravel community

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Tuesday TravelCast on the go! Share all your travel tales, talk and tips right here...

UK foreign office issues travel warning to popular destination over 'regional escalation'

Article via Express

There's 1 Massive Health Benefit Of Travel That We Don't Talk About Enough

A reason that’s heard less often, perhaps, is to slow down biological aging.

Whatever the reasons for their trips, older folks are traveling. According to a survey commissioned by IHG Hotels & Resorts and conducted by Talker Research, 59% of retirees are planning to travel more during retirement. Some are having “retirementmoons,” celebrating the end of their working years with a trip.

Article via HuffPost

These are the UK’s cheapest and quietest dates to fly this Christmas and New Year

Article via Independent

Tell us about your favourite remote place in Europe

Perhaps it’s a windswept beach on a little-visited island, maybe it’s some hard to reach ruins, or a mountain trail that few people tackle … We’d love to hear about a favourite place that feels far from the rest of the world, somewhere wild and inspiring in the UK or Europe. Tell us what it’s like and why it’s special. The best tip wins a £200 Coolstays holiday voucher.

Article via The Guardian

Ryanair makes business travel play with Concur Travel

Article via Travel Weekly UK

Travelogix starts beta test for ChatGPT functionality

Beta testing is about to start on new functionality using OpenAI’s ChatGPT which has been integrated by Travelogix. The travel tech specialist is using the large language model (LLM) to supercharge users’ ability to analyse charts, graphs and data sets within its data tool Analytix.

Article via Business Travel Mag

The opportunities these days are incredible. Smart people will make a lot of money with very little effort!

Hadleigh family shares travel hack saving £50k after 80 home swaps in 35 countries

Article via Southend Echo

Lufthansa Group reports stronger earnings after healthy summer travel

Article via Euronews

Psychic astrologer shares 4 signs that should never travel together - 'trip won’t be easy'

Article via Express

Noticeboard - Intrepid Travel ventures into publishing with first book

Article via TTG

Travel Counsellors gains direct access to hotel rates and deals

The integration builds on the company’s tour operating business as it will provide agents with instant access to live hotel offers including special offers and live rates...

Article via Travel Weekly

Luxury travel company launches VIP club for top advisors

Suite DNA’s members’ club will offer its luxury advisors a number of benefits, including exclusive access to renowned hotels and administrative support.

Article via TTG

Budget 2024: what does the travel industry want – and need – from the chancellor?

The new government will deliver its first Budget on Wednesday (30 October), billed as being potentially the most important and impactful for years.

Article via TTG

Why Tequila’s remarkable rise belies global travel retail performance – Category Intel...

In the latest in Global Drinks Intel’s series analysing the changing dynamics in global travel retail, Pi Insight’s Garry Stasiulevicuis draws on data from the company’s ShelfTrak tool to explore how tequila is performing in the channel.

Article via Global Drinks Intel

📍 Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸

👉 What to do in the Spanish Capi?

🎞️ Hungry Passport YouTube channel give their top 10 tips!

More info in replies… 🔗 ⬇️

10 tips/places from the video…

  • Plaza Mayor
  • Food & markets: Mercado de San Miguel
  • El Retiro Park
  • Matadero Madrid
  • Palacio de Cibeles
  • Greenhouse Atocha Train Station
  • Templo de Debod
  • Queen Sofia Arts Center
  • Gran Vía, shopping
  • Palacio Real, Catedral de Almudena, Muslim Wall

📍 Madrid / La Alberca / Cazorla, Spain 🇪🇸

Pueblo Inglés: Welcome to the Hotel La Alberca... chit-chat & shenanigans in the deepest depths of Spain!

Going back a few years ago now, but this was my first foray to Madrid before I moved there for several years. I took part in a volunteer program helping Spanish people with their conversational English…

Fascinating experience, and went on to work for the company coordinating the English speaking side of those very same programs!

Related article linked to in replies… 🔗 ⬇️

#leotravel #travel #spain #madrid

🇪🇸 Madrid Characters

Some of the folk you may encounter if you take a stroll through the Spanish capi…

Here we have 2 chaps going at it on their machine (what's it called?)

Then we have the dude always belting out Bob Marley and other classics

Next up, another guy who bloody loves it who has all sorts going on in that lot: all manner of makeshift drumming equipment. Practically a mini rave in the street!

And let’s not forget our old friend, dear 'Fat Spiderman', taking a break in Plaza Mayor…

Just a few of the weird and wonderful faces you meet on the streets of Madrid!

#leotravel #travel #madrid #spain

When Mr Bean meets Michael Jackson!

What are these 2 fellas chatting about in central Madrid??

Simon Calder shares cheap European destination that's a 'hidden gem' and 20C in November...

The affordable seaside destination has beautiful little towns with no crowds, and it's only three hours from the UK

Article via Express

Spanish city boasts best 'quality of life' in Europe thanks to its exceptional food and 'relaxed' pace...

Nine European cities offer an unparalleled quality of life, according to a relocation expert

Article via GB News

  1. San Sebastian, Spain
  2. Graz, Austria
  3. Utrecht, Netherlands
  4. Ljubljana, Slovenia
  5. Brno, Czech Republic
  6. Braga, Portugal
  7. Gdansk, Poland
  8. Rostock, Germany
  9. Lille, France

Cities close to the airport! ✈️🌎

🇨🇭 Geneva – 4km – 🚊 7mins €3
🇩🇰 Copenhagen – 8km – 🚊 / 🚇 13mins €5
🇳🇱 Amsterdam – 9km – 🚊 15/20mins €5.90
🇦🇹 Vienna – 18km – City Airport Train (specific for airport transfers) 16mins €12 one way
🇨🇭 Zurich – 10km – 🚊 10mins €7
🇧🇪 Brussels – 12km – 🚊 20mins €9 🚍 30/40mins €7.50
🇸🇪 Stockholm – 7km – 🚍 20mins €9
🇵🇹 Lisbon – 7km – 🚇 20mins €1.65
🇫🇷 Nice – 7km – 🚋 25mins €1.50
🇪🇸 Madrid – 12km – 🚇 20mins €5
🇬🇧 London (Heathrow) – 24km – 🚇 30mins £6
🇮🇹 Rome – 30km – 🚊 Leonardo Express 32mins €14
🇩🇪 Munich – 28km – 🚊 40mins €11
🇨🇦 Toronto – 25km – 🚍 45mins CAD $3.25
🇯🇵 Tokyo (Narita) – 60km – 🚊 Narita Express 55mins ¥3,000
🇦🇺 Sydney – 8km – 🚇 15mins AUD $19
🇺🇸 Los Angeles – 30km – 🚍 1hr $10

🚋 - tram
🚍 - bus
🚊 - train
🚇 - metro

It’ll soon become much easier to see Italy by train...

After announcing its first non-airline partnership with Eurostar, SkyTeam is also joining forces with Trenitalia

Article via TimeOut

France is home to the world’s coolest neighbourhood, according to a new ranking...

A Marseille neighbourhood has been crowned the “coolest in the world” in Time Out magazine’s annual ranking. Licked in graffiti, lined with vintage stores and soundtracked by live music, Notre-Dame-du-Mont was selected for its “rebellious spirit”

Article via Euronews

Move Over Barcelona - Travelers Are Flocking to Lesser Known City With Stunning Old Town...

Check out Cordoba!

Article via Travel Off Path