Walking or Biking to work can improve your health

This is a great blog post about a new piece of 'research' that shows that walking or talking the bike to work can improve your health. It often amazes me how lazy people get when they buy a car. Suddenly the under 30 minutes walk becomes a car journey. Or the trip to the shops to buy a few items which we couldn't possibly carry home (probably becase we never do, but that's a different story for another day). Walking and biking uses our bodies and so is an excellent way to keep healthy. Combine them with getting too or from work and you can even do them as part of your daily routine, feeling better and not really having to make time for excersise. Of course if you don't live close enough to work there may be a bus or a train that you could take part of the way. Not being a great fan of cycling along public roads myself, cycle paths are a wonderful thing for me. However I did come accross this video for some ideas of places to cycle when there is no path, such as railings (I'm joking don't come asking to sue me when you break every bone in your body!).

Summer is almost here - great days out

One of my favourite tour operators is Compass Tours. As well as offering a good selection of days out they have friendly staff and enthusiastic volunteers who give up their time to make sure customers have a great day out. I have put a list of the summer 2009 tours on the website along with a booking form if you are interested. Click here to download. It is a large file so right click and then 'save target as' and it should download fine. The summer tour program includes days out to the Scottish Highlands, West Highlands, Edinburgh, York, Scarborough and Devon & Cornwall. The tours depart early morning, alow time in the place you wish to visit and then return home in the evening so they can save on expensive overnight hotel bills. If you are travelling as a couple there is the option of a private table for two in first class but the entire train is formed of comfortable and spacious intercity coaches so you will have a good experience however you choose to travel.

Offers

I've come accross some special offers to share with the readers and put them in the news section of the main website. In particular if you are planning a trip anywhere along the East Coast route anytime soon, book any Advance ticket before 6th April and you will get 20% off the price, and that is in addition to any railcard you may have. After that the 10% discount is back. Those discounts are only when you book online on the National Express East Coast website. See the above link though for all the offers.

Happy travelling over Easter.