We’ve often written blogs about optional extras and whether you should get them from the rental companies or buy them yourselves and we’ve also done the same regarding baby seats. We advised people to go and buy baby seats on their holiday instead depending on the time they were hiring as baby seats as rental companies charged anywhere between £5-15 per day for the seat which quickly added up to the cost of buying one. (more…)
Top 5 Winter Sun Holiday Destinations
People tend in winter to head off skiing, or to somewhere cold just to get in the mood. There’s a few of us however that enjoy escaping the cold weather and going somewhere warm for the winter, so where are the best places to escape to get a nice bit of sun in December? We have compiled our Top 5 Winter Sun Holiday Destinations to share with you guys and give you some ideas.
Top 5 Winter Sun Holiday Destinations by Indigo
#5 Cape Town – South Africa
It’s in another hemisphere to the UK, meaning warmth! Cape Town boasts an amazing scenery, great beaches and fantastic places to wine and dine with fabulous local food. The city in South Africa is popular no matter the time of year but it’s a fantastic place to consider for winter due to its lovely warm climate, perhaps the best part of the holiday would be the fact there would be no jet lag! Cape Town is in the same time zone as the UK.
#4 Sydney Australia
Sydney is Australia’s most famous and largest city and the capital of New South Wales. Sydney offers a lot of spectacular driving routes, one being the Grand Pacific Drive.
This spectacular drive does through the Stanwell Tops, the winding Sea Cliff Bridge and also has glamorous views of the golden beaches that Australia is known for.
#3 Paphos – Cyprus
Even in the coldest months you will find yourself out in a t shirt and shorts bracing the warm weather. Paphos is a city right on the coastline of the Mediterranean in Cyprus, enjoy the fantastic beaches, warm ocean and beach side restaurants this winter. Paphos won’t let you down, it’s everything you expect!
#2 Tenerife – Canary Islands (Spain)
Summer all the time, all the Canary island destinations are popular in winter including Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and so on but Tenerife just edges it and not just because its flag looks like the Scotland one. Tenerife is one of the only places in winter you can kick back in your swimming trunks and in the distance see the tops of mountains covered in snow, you get that winter feeling even without meaning too!
#1 Miami – Florida
With more than 800 miles of beaches and world class attractions, Florida is one of the places you must visit at least once in your life time.
Miami is one of Florida’s top attractions, due its famous beaches, legendary resorts, world class shopping and historic landmarks.
Miami, among other things is a business hub and leader in media, entertainment arts, commerce, finance and culture leading to its nickname ‘Capital of Latin America’. Miami was also rated Americas Cleanest City by Forbes magazine.
Top 5 Scariest Roads in Europe
Europe is a continent with over an area of 10 million kilometres. There are hundreds of thousands of roads all across Europe, some of them are fantastic but some, some are just plain scary. Here’s a little insight into some of the scariest roads in Europe and the reason they gained this status. (more…)
£300k Lamborghini Could Be Crushed
A Lamborghini Aventador picked up on Wilton Place in Knightsbridge could be destined for the tip. The flashy sports car was seized by police after the driver of the vehicle was found to be behind the wheel of the £300k car without any car insurance. What may be a crime in itself however is that officers are weighing up the possibility of crushing the car, it should be an offence in itself to crush such as beautiful car. (more…)
Top 5 Endangered Classic Cars
Several popular cars of the past are now facing extinction as classic cars seem to be going out of favour. It’s a shame to see some of the big names of the past diminishing in such a way, it can be rare to see some of these cars on the road now compared to them being all you used to see. What cars are in the top 5 endangered classic cars countdown?
Debit Card Car Hire Scotland
Scotland is a regular place for car hire with some of the popular places being of course Inverness, Glasgow and Edinburgh. We offer car hire without a credit card at all these locations, whether you’re going for a nice quiet day golfing or in the roaring crowd for the football we have the perfect car for you here at Indigo. Often car hire without a credit card can be a huge struggle as companies don’t trust the use of a debit card. However a select few companies do accept debit cards but just don’t make it obvious, due to us being a broker we can bring you the service of debit card car hire in Scotland. A lot of the major car hire companies do accept debit cards and we can arrange debit card car hire Scotland no matter your location. (more…)
Increasing Lorry Speed Limit
The current national speed limit for lorries is 40 mph, but recently there has been questions raised about the danger of cars being able to go 20 mph faster on single carriageways. The danger of this is often that drivers want to overtake lorries which causes a large amount of collisions. They plan to increase the limit of HGVs by 10mph making it only a 10mph gap between them and cars, this change will also help other things such as cut fuel bills and reduce carbon emissions.
This issue becomes as particular interest to Scotland as its smaller area has many single carriageway roads and large amount of traffic compared to other places within the UK, this of course is a recipe for more accidents. Transport Scotland published statistics that if lorries where to be increased the speed limit of 10mph it would cut accidents by up to 18% and also stop vehicle traffic and cut from an average of 18 vehicles down to a low of just 6. As well as these statistics if lorries could increase their speed it would increase productivity.
Despite all the good factors of the increase there is also people that disagree. One of the main opposing forces of this debate is Sustrans the sustainable transport lobby group they strongly disagree as they feel it would pose an increased risk of accidents to cyclists with Jason Torrance, the charities police director saying “This decision will only make our roads more dangerous for those at the greatest risk.” However this isn’t the common belief as many people become irritated at the low speed of lorries and attempt to make risky overtakes as they become impatient causing hundreds of accidents a year, but there is no telling what would happen if they were to make this increase. Would it improve safety? Or increase accidents related to the most vulnerable, cyclists?