About Lewis
Lewis is a blog author for Holiday Hypermarket.

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Triposo Try to Top Travel World with Google Search Style
Written by Lewis Lane September 22nd 2011

Two ex-Google employees, Jon Tirsen and Douwe Osinga, have given the grand opening of their mobile travel guide, Triposo.

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Globe Travel Awards 2012 Open for Nominations
Written by Lewis Lane September 22nd 2011

The industry’s premier travel awards event has opened its doors for this year’s nominations.

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Disneyland Look For British Parent to Join International Help Team
Written by Lewis Lane September 20th 2011

One lucky British mum or dad will have the opportunity to join a panel of parents who help other families plan how to get the most enjoyment out of their visit to Walt Disney World.

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High-tech balloon to offer space travel to the masses by 2013… for a price
Written by Lewis Lane August 24th 2011

Adventurous travellers will soon be able to take 22-mile-high flights into space if a Spanish entrepreneur’s lofty plans come to fruition. Jose Lopez-Urdiales’s space balloon – ‘the Bloon’ – will take budding astronauts to incredible heights in 2013. The specially designed balloon will r

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Royal couple receive £200 after BA in-flight entertainment fails
Written by Lewis Lane August 18th 2011

British Airways has dished out compensation of £200 in duty free vouchers after in-flight entertainment failed on a recent flight from Los Angeles. All of the first class passengers received the vouchers – including Prince William and Kate Middleton. An insider told the Daily Mirror: “The whole

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Landing Aborted due to Drunk Female Passenger
Written by Lewis Lane August 17th 2011

A drunk female passenger has been given an eight month suspended sentence and 60 hours of community work after forcing an airline pilot to abandon a landing at Manchester Airport by fighting with passengers and crew. Lynn Grimes, who was on an EasyJet flight from Athens to Manchester, had been drink

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UK-based “Holidays 4U” ceases trading, thousands to be repatriated
Written by Lewis Lane August 3rd 2011

UK-based travel company Holidays 4U has ceased trading today, advising the Civil Aviation Authority that it no longer had any credit. Holidays 4U specialised in Turkey holidays and also traded as AegeanFlights.com. Both trading names had an annual combined turnover of around £35m, offering package

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Snake on a bullet train
Written by Lewis Lane July 7th 2011

An ultra high speed Japanese bullet train was forced to stop yesterday after a conductor discovered a snake coiled up in a passenger seat. The red and black Honduran milk snake was discovered at around 9AM on the Kodama 642 bullet train between Osaka and Kyoto. The train was ordered to stop immediat

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Dubai Airport to invest in $7.8 billion expansion
Written by Lewis Lane July 7th 2011

Dubai Airport has been given the green light for a plan to spend a whopping $7.8 billion over the next 10 years, expanding airspace and airport capacity. It is expected the number of passengers going through the airport per year will rise from 60 million to 90 million by 2018. The plans include new

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Huge dust cloud covers Phoenix, Arizona
Written by Lewis Lane July 6th 2011

The US city of Phoenix, Arizona was last night engulfed in a massive 50-mile-wide dust storm at the beginning of the region’s monsoon season – running from mid-July until September. The gargantuan brown cloud engulfed homes, fields and even skyscrapers as it made its way across the city. Video f

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