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With the help of iPlayer I’ve managed to watch national treasure Stephen Fry [http://www.stephenfry.com]‘s travelogue throughout America.  His goals featured visiting each of their 50 states whilst celebrating the USA and its ideals, rather than mock and dismiss, as he felt was currently the vogue.

Less than three hours drive hugging the coast East out of Rio lies the delightful tourist area of Buzios (don’t pronounce the ‘i’).  There are 23 beaches, unspoilt marinas where the local fisherman will fry up the most divine caught-that-morning fish (Chovo & Desugo I think were the names

Spending a lot of time in airports recently, I got chatting to a couple that had the usually catastrophic experience of losing their holiday luggage.  Yet rather than the typical “never fly with such-and-such again” (usually the woeful BA naturally) they sang the praises of their airline, Air France. Flying

Back from a week without internet, a touch of surfing over a coffee just revealed a delightful article on how to make the credit crunch prefaced recession work for you on your personal spend.  It’s all about haggling [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/3377202/Haggle-your-way-to-a-bargain.html]

Those battling to prevent an obesity epidemic currently promote the virtues of having 5 portions of fruit and veg each and every day.  The results are self-evidently staggering for your overall health and Body Mass Index should you keep to just such a routine. Inspired by this dramatically positive impact,

I spend a fair amount of my time helping sales people make the most of their latest new product.  There’s no doubt that technological advances such as the immediacy of and permanent connection to email is contributing towards making us intolerant of patience. Where once it would be quite

I admit to being bowled over by the spooky accuracy of Kondratiev during an overwise painful series of economics lectures at Uni.  He’s the Russian who unearthed the reasoning behind patterns of boom and bust that his disciples consider hard-wired inside trade cycles.  You can read about him and

Here’s an unpleasant retail experience from a surprisingly mild Autumnal day in central London.  Heading back to my desk during the afternoon, I walked by a deli-patisserie that I often pass.  Combining the knowledge that I’ve only ever been an occasional customer with my desire to stop giving