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Category Archives: Travel

Transport for London’s random money generator

If, like me, you have a travelcard and pay as you go on the same Oyster card, you maye recently have started to notice odd amounts being deducted from your card’s pay as you go balance.
This is because those clever Oyster card people, who have been paid millions of pounds to implement pay as you [...]

Getting inside a person’s head

I was shown yet another rambling, boring example of someone’s twitterings this morning, and it showed me a lot more than I needed to know about how the author’s mind worked.
What was a lot more interesting was visiting this exhibition at the weekend, where artists have created spaces that evoke what their minds feel like [...]

Do offers always work?

Yesterday I received an email from a car hire company containing an offer that must end soon. I didn’t book any car hire because of it though, because I don’t need to hire a car. Had the offer been for, say, a cheap flight to Paris, I might have taken it up, but very few [...]

Name the airline…

Back this weekend from a fantastic holiday, all researched and arranged using the Internet. It’s fantastic to think about how much travel has been changed by sites like TripAdvisor, and the sites produced by even small hotels are getting so good. There were only 2 bad experiences throughout the whole trip, both down to the [...]

BA’s terminal 5 preview site is live

After a great deal of effort from a cast of hundreds (well, almost) we’ve launched British Airways’ preview site for Heathrow Terminal 5, which opens next year. It’s a feast of interactive content, showing all aspects of what’s going to be an amazing place to travel through. Some of the team have had visits already, [...]

New Agency.com work for British Airways

We’ve made some great tongue-in-cheek video content to help BA with their recruitment of new cabin crew, using the Pam-Ann character. It’s pretty funny, and it’s nice to see so many clients and colleagues in the video itself.
Most importantly from my point of view, BA tend to be quite a serious brand, and it’s good [...]

Google’s innovative approach to mapping the world’s streets

If you visit Hyderabad on Google Maps you’ll see some street maps that have been generated in a very novel way, using residents of the city, who’ve been sent satellite tracking equipment by Google. Essentially, they’re given software and a sat-nav and walk around identifying streets as they walk.
One of the problems with Google Maps, [...]

Travel Thoughts

Travel’s on my mind at the moment, for a number of reasons. We’re planning a big trip at the end of the year, and it’s incredible how much easier it is today to research and transact online, even for some very remote and obscure locations. BUT there are still some terrible websites out there, operated [...]

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Oia is incredibly photogenic. I’m posting a few sample photos, so you can see what I mean.

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Originally uploaded by harkmopwood

Oia is incredibly photogenic. I’m posting a few sample photos, so you can see what I mean.