Posts in category Infographics

The second in our 10 Reasons to Visit… series, York certainly comes out top for us. Although we may be a just a little biased as it’s also our home town, ask anyone who has visited and they are sure to agree with our sentiments. The NRM The National Railway Museum is the greatest railway museum in the world, and welcomes almost a million visitors each year. With over 100 locomotives on display, your visit will take you back in time through 300 years of rail history. The NRM is a fun day out for the whole family, and the …

Portsmouth is a wonderful seaside city with a proud naval heritage and no shortage of great things to see and do. Here are 10 ideas to help you get started and plan your trip. The Mary Rose Museum The Mary Rose was one of Henry VIII largest warships. It battled the French for 34 years – Brits loved doing that back then. It sank in the Solent in 1545 under mysterious circumstances. In true British style we blamed the weather. It was raised from the seabed in 1982. HMS Victory This is Admiral Nelson’s famous ship. He defeated a load of …

Budapest is a beautiful city, with the great Danube river cutting between the two sides of the city – Buda and Pest. Both sides are packed full of beautiful and ornate structures that twinkle at night with stunning illuminations. What’s more, a trip to Budapest can be a perfect budget getaway, as food, drink and much of the entertainment is very low-cost in comparison to the UK.

Each year when the Brit Awards come around, someone, somewhere, is complaining about how music is not as good as it used to be. This year, we decided to put that theory to the test. Are we just getting older and more cynical, or is music genuinely not as good as it used to be?

This is the year that Google release one of their latest gadgets, the ‘Google Glass’. There has been a buzz around the internet about the launch of this product, but opinions are mixed. Wearable technology is likely to hit the market in a big way this year, with smart watches and smart ski goggles being amongst the inventions that are set to be the most popular, but with Google Glass arriving on the scene potentially as early as April 2014, are people really ready for what this piece of tech really means for our day to day lives?

This time last year, many of us were in the process of forming a set of new year resolutions that were going to turn our lives around and help us to accomplish something spectacular with our lives. Sadly, around this time eleven months ago, the vast majority of those ambitious ‘ressies’ had already been broken. In actual fact, many resolutions last little more than a couple of hours on new year’s day, with only a few making it past the first week – never mind past the first month.

Were you aware that your choice of handbag says a whole lot about you? Who would have thought that a decision that we usually make without a second thought can have such an impact on the image we project about ourselves to others. We are how we dress though, and the handbag is one of the most important statements about our outfit, because it reveals how we conduct our lives.

Facebook is ideal for keeping up to date with news from your friends and finding out what events you should be attending, but irritations are increasingly creeping in over the way people use the popular social networking site. We wanted to find out what types of facebook users were the most annoying, and conducted a survey to find out the main offenders.

  Many rumours are circulating about the new consoles on the block, including their release dates, features and much more. We have gathered all of the latest information about the consoles to compile this informative infographic, helping you to make up your mind whether it will be the XBox One or the PS4 that you are going to be parting with your hard earned cash to purchase this winter.

We recently conducted a survey of 1000 of our newsletter subscribers to find out about how they planned to spend their money during the Christmas period in 2012. The infographic below summarises just a few of the results that we found the most interesting.  Some of the findings that we came across are fairly surprising although others are quite predictable since we are still fighting our way out of the rescission at the moment.