Travel Tips
Top Nine Eurail Secret Tips
Date: May 15th, 2006 |
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BootsnAll Eurail staff shares the TOP NINE SECRET TIPS on riding the trains in Europe.
In France, if you put your feet on the seat in front of you, it’s a crime with strict punishment. The French women get really mad, and make you take a whiff of this. Secret Tip 1
In Italy, if you don’t [...]
Smuggle Beer
Date: April 27th, 2006 | No Comments
This guy has a keg under his shirt This is one of the most daring yet brilliant beer smuggling inventions. It’s called the Beer Belly. You can smuggle beer into sporting events, inside a bag under your shirt that looks like your stomach. It’s camoflauged into your “natural gut”.
While the Beer Belly does making [...]
Product Newsletter 101
Date: March 14th, 2006 | No Comments
For the next few months, BootsnAll is publishing a action-packed product newsletter, highlighting travel services and products that can help plan your trip from A to Z, with just a few clicks on your computer. Don’t Worry Travelers!. The same independent, non-commerical, real-travel content will still fill your inbox each month.
[read more]E-mail Newsletters, why care?
Date: March 1st, 2006 | 19 comments
E-mail and e-mail newsletters were so cool when we started way back in 1999. Remember that initial excitment of receiving email from family, friends, and maybe even some businesses? Fast forward 7 years later (yeah, BootsnAll has been around for 7+ years) and your inbox is not nearly as exciting as it once was.
Between [...]
Frat House Day
Date: February 28th, 2006 | 1 comment
Court came into work today but unfortunately had to leave almost straight away. She may be coming down with the flu.
Without her here to keep us in line, it’s become a bit of a frat house here in the office. So much so, that we decided to change the curtains here in the office (pop-up [...]
World Cup, Blogs and Travel
Date: January 18th, 2006 | No Comments
Maybe some of you will remember, on the eve of World Cup 2002, Nick, Chris and I launched a little blog called World Cup Blog. We blogged during the games in the middle of the US night, Nick blogged about hairdos, others joined the fun and before it was all over we had laughed [...]
[read more]Lost Hat
Date: October 6th, 2005 | No Comments
This is kind of a funny email that came through our customer service email today. Random!
I’m having a hard time finding the right Powells Contact Us option.
Problem:
Last Sunday we were in your Burntside store, and I believe I left a grey Stetson cap in the children’s section.
I would be much idebted to Powells (a Portland [...]
BootsnAll on the Road - literally…
Date: August 26th, 2005 | 3 comments
Today the entire office is out on the road, literally, running in the Hood to Coast 197 mile relay race. Over the course of 24 hours(ish), 12 runners will each run 3 times.
It’s something that we’ve known was coming up but didn’t really pay too much attention to since there was so much going on [...]
Brandon Wilson, author of Yak Butter Blues in PDX
Date: August 22nd, 2005 | No Comments
BootsnAll is hosting a travel author reading in Portland on Thursday, August 25. Please mark your calendars and let us know if you can come. Brandon Wilson, author of Yak Butter Blues, walked 650 miles across Tibet with his wife and their horse, following an ancient trail that has been closed to travelers for the [...]
[read more]Nike Run Hit Wonder
Date: July 22nd, 2005 | 5 comments
This Sunday I’m actually doing my first ever running ‘race’ - I say race because it’s really more of a fun run, with 10,000 other people. The Nike Run Hit Wonder is supposed to be a blast, with artists playing their most famous song over and over as people dash by. It’s hard [...]
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BootBlog is the company blog of the BootsnAll Travel Network, a company that has been connecting travellers since 1998. Our goal is to inspire, educate and cultivate an organic community of independent travellers. But what does that mean? Well, we love to travel and we love to connect other travellers who have the desire to get out and see this great world of ours. BootBlog will showcase what is going on around the office, around the company and within our community of travellers.Top Categories
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