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How do two adults and two teenagers travel to England, inexpensively, without staying in a hostel?
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ok, well before you totally discount it, there are some which are very nice, and since you can stay in a family room, or pair of double rooms, in a castle, or beautiful manor house, give it another think...
http://www.yha.org.uk/ one of the castle hostels~ http://www.yha.org.uk/hostel/st-briavels
you could also email and negotiate prices with b&bs. ive knocked prices down by skipping breakfast, which means they can sleep in : ) its actually reduced the rate by a fair amount.
camping is super cheap, and you can buy kit here or bring your own over. public transport is good into cities, and variable in the countryside. i just stayed at a spectacular place in the countryside; new shower block, beautiful farm, 4 miles from the sea. £5 a night for utter bliss, and i was completely alone : ) the smaller places are cheaper, and quieter. http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/
best of all, and utterly free ~home swopping. you let a family stay in your place, you stay in theirs. my parents did it a few times when we were small as it ment we'd have places ok for kids to stay in, with tons of toys and whatnot. we also had our cats, rabbits etc fed, though the dog went to kennels. we got their car for free, too, and they had ours. there are loads of sites doing it, all over the world.
obv, it means you can self cater.
there are loads, this is one run by a major news paper. http://www.guardianhomeexchange.co.uk/
you pay a small fee to register, then pay only for flights! take a look and see what's on offer : )
ok, well before you totally discount it, there are some which are very nice, and since you can stay in a family room, or pair of double rooms, in a castle, or beautiful manor house, give it another think...
http://www.yha.org.uk/ one of the castle hostels~ http://www.yha.org.uk/hostel/st-briavels
you could also email and negotiate prices with b&bs. ive knocked prices down by skipping breakfast, which means they can sleep in : ) its actually reduced the rate by a fair amount.
camping is super cheap, and you can buy kit here or bring your own over. public transport is good into cities, and variable in the countryside. i just stayed at a spectacular place in the countryside; new shower block, beautiful farm, 4 miles from the sea. £5 a night for utter bliss, and i was completely alone : ) the smaller places are cheaper, and quieter. http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/
best of all, and utterly free ~home swopping. you let a family stay in your place, you stay in theirs. my parents did it a few times when we were small as it ment we'd have places ok for kids to stay in, with tons of toys and whatnot. we also had our cats, rabbits etc fed, though the dog went to kennels. we got their car for free, too, and they had ours. there are loads of sites doing it, all over the world.
obv, it means you can self cater.
there are loads, this is one run by a major news paper. http://www.guardianhomeexchange.co.uk/
you pay a small fee to register, then pay only for flights! take a look and see what's on offer : )
How long did it take news to travel from the US to Europe 20 years ago?
Q. Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s, how slowly did news travel between continents?
Answer
A friend of mine got married in upper New York State in 1978, I phoned him direct from Leeds West Yorkshire England.
His American in Laws were really impressed because at that time where they were (about 60 to 80 miles from the nearest City) they still had to go through an Operator at the Telephone Exchange.
The call cost about £12 (about a days wages at that time) and I think I was on for just under 10 minutes.
So News was about the same as today, the big break through for News travel between the US and Europe was back about 1860 when the first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid across the bed of the Atlantic Ocean, Queen Victoria and President Buchanan sent each other goodwill messages on behalf of each others respective Nations on the opening of almost instantaneous communications.
Actually of coures you had to get to the telegraph office and it cost a fortune, and it was the dots and dashes of Morse code, so no vocal communications.
The next major improvement was the telephone, and Marconi and the ~Wireless~ Radio to you.
In the 1930s a Leeds printing company called Waddington's made one of the more famous transatlantic telephone calls when the Managing Director phoned Parker Brothers (the toys and games company) in America about acquiring the rights to produce the board game ~Monopoly~ outside US, the board of Parker Brothers were so impressed at receiving the call they agreed straight away.
In the 1960s there seemed hardly a year when some new communications breakthrough did not happen, indeed most people in UK could tell you where they were when they heard the News ~President Kennedy had been shot~ I was at a charity function at school and allowing for time zones heard about it about an hour after the event.
The restricting factor was location and the availability of Satelitte communications via a telephone line.
Whilst events now rarely happen outside the envelope of Telephone communications, we all watched the 911 twin towers event live, I still have the video recordings direct from the TV, in 1989 the opening of the Berlin wall was shown live.
And in 1980 watched the end of the Iranian embassy seige live on TV in the company of a friend of mine, and I couldn't have had a better companion as he is ex SAS and was giving detail as to why they were doing what they did.
1980s 1990s much the same as today except for a mass of amatuer footage from mobile phones.
A friend of mine got married in upper New York State in 1978, I phoned him direct from Leeds West Yorkshire England.
His American in Laws were really impressed because at that time where they were (about 60 to 80 miles from the nearest City) they still had to go through an Operator at the Telephone Exchange.
The call cost about £12 (about a days wages at that time) and I think I was on for just under 10 minutes.
So News was about the same as today, the big break through for News travel between the US and Europe was back about 1860 when the first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid across the bed of the Atlantic Ocean, Queen Victoria and President Buchanan sent each other goodwill messages on behalf of each others respective Nations on the opening of almost instantaneous communications.
Actually of coures you had to get to the telegraph office and it cost a fortune, and it was the dots and dashes of Morse code, so no vocal communications.
The next major improvement was the telephone, and Marconi and the ~Wireless~ Radio to you.
In the 1930s a Leeds printing company called Waddington's made one of the more famous transatlantic telephone calls when the Managing Director phoned Parker Brothers (the toys and games company) in America about acquiring the rights to produce the board game ~Monopoly~ outside US, the board of Parker Brothers were so impressed at receiving the call they agreed straight away.
In the 1960s there seemed hardly a year when some new communications breakthrough did not happen, indeed most people in UK could tell you where they were when they heard the News ~President Kennedy had been shot~ I was at a charity function at school and allowing for time zones heard about it about an hour after the event.
The restricting factor was location and the availability of Satelitte communications via a telephone line.
Whilst events now rarely happen outside the envelope of Telephone communications, we all watched the 911 twin towers event live, I still have the video recordings direct from the TV, in 1989 the opening of the Berlin wall was shown live.
And in 1980 watched the end of the Iranian embassy seige live on TV in the company of a friend of mine, and I couldn't have had a better companion as he is ex SAS and was giving detail as to why they were doing what they did.
1980s 1990s much the same as today except for a mass of amatuer footage from mobile phones.
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