• Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017 – From Narcos to Brexit, the Musical

    This year, Edinburgh celebrates the 70th anniversary of its famous and renowned arts and culture festival. It started in 1947 when a group of non-mainstream and uninvited theatre groups turned up at the esteemed Edinburgh International Festival in order to defy the norm. Alternative locations aside

  • Prepare for Winter: Discover Game of Thrones filming locations in the UK and abroad

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    Although the massively popular fantasy saga Game of Thrones has ended, there’s never a bad time to “prepare for winter” by visiting some of the TV show’s most iconic filming locations. GoT fans from the UK are in luck since many of the sets are actually located on British soil and thus fairly easy to visit. If you’re willing to travel a bit further to discover even more sets, we also tell you, which international locations served as King’s Landing, Qarth and Co. Game of Thrones filming locations in the UK The majority of on-location shooting occurs in Northern Ireland – in Belfast to be exact, where large studio complexes…

  • megabus summer sale: staycations have never been this cheap!

    In one of their largest summer sales ever, the low-cost coach operator megabus is giving away one million tickets for only £3 each (excluding a booking fee of 50p). Thanks to the company’s ever-growing bus network, this means that you can discover large parts of England, Scotland and Wales for only a

  • Discover the Top 3 cities for millennials

    No generation before was as open-minded and unconventional as the millennials: not only is the so-called Generation Y highly tolerant, tech-savvy and economically thinking, it is also characterised by its love for travel and its willingness to try out new things. If there’s an attractive

  • Dos and Don’ts: 5 ½ tips to avoid being the weird person on the bus

    In the US Sitcom “How I Met Your Mother”, Ted Mosby comes up with the idea that there’s always one weird or crazy person on the bus. The person can earn this special name tag by engaging in conduct that annoys fellow travellers, such as talking too much or eating particularly smelly food.

  • Travel to the world’s happiest countries!

    In 2012, the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network published the first World Happiness Report. Experts in different fields such as economists, psychologists and survey analysts worked closely together to measure the world’s happiness. The report was originally meant to help

  • Happy Birthday, National Express!

    When travelling on the UK’s motorways, you’re very likely to spot a National Express coach. The famous coach operator basically connects all of the country’s cities and towns, from A for Aberdeen to Y for Yeovil, and counts around 19 million journeys per year. In 2017, National Express is celebrating

  • Visit the World’s Most Tourist-Friendly Countries of 2017

    When looking for the perfect holiday destination, there’s a lot of things to be considered: Are there any entry restrictions? How do prices for food and drink compare to those at home? How many interesting sights and unique landscapes are on offer? Is it easy to get from A to B and to travel across the country?

  • 3 UK theme parks that you can easily get to by bus

    Summertime is theme park time! There’s hardly anything that kids love more than a family day out in one of the UK’s theme parks. While some of them are a bit more secluded and are fairly hard to get to by public transport, there’s still some that you can reach without the need for a car. CheckMyBus has picked the Top 3 UK theme parks, which can easily and affordably be reached by coach. Taking the bus to the theme park: Travelling with kids Everyone who has already travelled with kids knows that there’s some things to think about beforehand to guarantee for a pleasant journey. The most important thing…