http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Gareth+Powell Travel Gareth Powell Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=4806&ca=Travel In Europe, hotel charges bite far deeper into budgets than you would sometimes expect. In Britain there is the inexpensive alterative of bed and breakfast. This does not exist to such an extent in the rest of Europe. One way of getting around this, particularly for friends planning to travel togethe... Travel Gareth Powell Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=4807&ca=Travel Know first that canal and waterway cruising is not a holiday that will please everyone. If you like playing tennis and golf all day, if your idea of happiness is lying beside a pool looking at the young ladies in their miniature bikinis, if you must absolutely be able to enjoy a hectic night life ev... Travel Gareth Powell Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=4808&ca=Travel This is Paris and it is raining, which is as it should be. Paris rain is not as the rain of other cities. It is softer, benevolent. It caresses, rather than soaks. Perhaps the main reason I come to Paris is because of the food. Not that I am a true gourmet. More a gourmand. It is perfectly possible... Wellness, Fitness and Diet Gareth Powell Wed, 06 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=4814&ca=Wellness%2C+Fitness+and+Diet You need to know your stress levels before you book a holiday. This quiz for evaluating stress originally surfaced in a Macmillan medical book in 1982 but in various forms it has been around for much longer. Basically what you need to know is whether you have been under too much stress in the past s... Travel Gareth Powell Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=4811&ca=Travel You can effectively extend a touring holiday of Europe by several days and perhaps save money. To do it you need a Eurail pass and a little forward planning. This is how it works. With a Eurail Pass you can go from city center to city center in Europe in great comfort at a reasonable price. The key... Travel Gareth Powell Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=4812&ca=Travel Luggage has many schools of thought. Here are but some of them: • Minimalist. Cutting down to the bare essentials so that you need only one cabin bag which you can carry on the aircraft. My daughter has this down to a fine art and recently toured India for two weeks with one small, leather Gladstone... Travel Gareth Powell Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=4813&ca=Travel Here are three areas of expertise when it comes to packing to travel: frequent travelers, airline cabin staff, butlers and valets. Strangely, all seem to come up with the same advice: fold it carefully, pad it well, pack it tight. The definitive authority on packing is Stanley Ager, who was butler t... Entertainment Gareth Powell Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=4815&ca=Entertainment When my children were young I filmed them on Super 8. I cut and edited the resulting footage so that it was not too disgusting. Now that they are grown up they find it a source of endless amusement. For me, a source of nostalgia. If you have children you have a built in excuse for using a camcorder... Entertainment Gareth Powell Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=4816&ca=Entertainment Bless the bride... and God help the video maker. True. Let us start with grim warnings of doom and disaster. Making a video of a wedding is something which can lose you a lot of friends. The bride and groom and their respective families want something that will make 'The American President' look lik...