http://www.po-ferries-uk.co.uk/blog P&O Ferries | Travel Across the World Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:07:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For everyone who dreaming of the snow: It might be a touch odd, but as we are all here quivering away in subprime temperatures, holiday makers are streaming off to ever colder places, spurred on by the desire to slide down great mountains attached to a couple of planks of wood. I’m ... http://www.po-ferries-uk.co.uk/blog/france/ski-trip/ With the credit crunch beginning to bite, John Hillman offers us all with a touch of advice about how P&O Ferries can help out with the post Christmas blues -------------------------------------- A January shopping binge is essential to our wellbeing as northern Europeans so don’t let the global financial crisis stop you. Shady characters ... http://www.po-ferries-uk.co.uk/blog/po-ferries/the-january-sales/ John Hillman reports on news of the latest Hollywood historical epic It’s looking like the story of the most famous Channel crossing in history is finally going to get the Hollywood treatment. 1066 and the epic battle of Hastings is having three separate feature films made about it next year; all ... http://www.po-ferries-uk.co.uk/blog/britain/hollywood-sets-its-sights-on-1066/ John Hillman laments the continental view of Albion ------------------------------------ Next time you head over to Rotterdam with P&O you might want to find out why on earth they think that the English are responsible for their bad weather. Apparently a common enough slang for grey miserable rainy days is Engels Weer, English weather, ... http://www.po-ferries-uk.co.uk/blog/po-ferries/miserable-misconceptions/ John Hillman ponders over the cliffs of England and a perfectly preserved snapshot of the past that might just gives us a glimpse into our future ------------------------------------- The Bouldnor Cliff on the Isle of Wight is the site of some pretty interesting underwater archeology, including an 8,000-year-old submerged Mesolithic village, but it ... http://www.po-ferries-uk.co.uk/blog/britain/the-bouldnor-cliff/ John Hillman slips into the P&O club lounge and tells us all about what he finds inside There was a time when travelling between countries was a great excuse to indulge in a bit of glamour; when even a couple of bus conductors from Birmingham would magically transform themselves into Lawrence ... http://www.po-ferries-uk.co.uk/blog/po-ferries/the-po-club-lounge/ John Hillman looks towards Amsterdam, the perfect setting for a New Year's Eve Party ----------------------- There are few spectacles in life as exhilarating as a stroll through the picturesque streets of Amsterdam on New Year’s Eve. Not that picturesque is a particularly truthful description of the riot that’ll be going on around you; ... http://www.po-ferries-uk.co.uk/blog/po-ferries/new-years-eve-in-amsterdam/ John Hillman sticks up for the humble buoy - a little lifesaver Floating about on the high seas sounds like a wonderful life to some but during these icy cold winter months spare a thought for the lonely buoy. No-body knows who first had the idea of floating a marker out at ... http://www.po-ferries-uk.co.uk/blog/po-ferries/an-unsung-hero/