Personally Chosen

Now that summer is almost here it is great to be thinking about getting our kids out of all those stuffy coats, stockings and boots and into lovely light summer clothing. Childrens fashions have come along in leaps and bounds over the past years and it is a joy to go shopping for things for the kids to wear, especially if you are going away on holiday.

Great Little Trading Company has a wonderful range of clothes for the kids; all top quality and right up to date with regards to fashion. For both boys and girls you can get items that they can wear out to somewhere special or simply play around in.

You will also be able to buy accessories and items for their bedrooms if you are thinking of renovating as well as great things for the playground, yard or for playing indoors.  Their catalogue is free so register online and order right away and you can purchase online. If you have any special occasions coming up take advantage of their gift finding service too.

I’m terribly stingy when it comes to hiring a car. Whenever I can, I spend the time to go through all the car hire companies operating in the airport that I’m flying to because their deals change at different times.

Yet, every single time that I’ve done that recently I’ve ended up with Holiday Autos.

They’re not really a “proper” car rental firm in that you won’t find a sign in the airport saying “Holiday Autos desk” and that’s what keeps their prices low. Whereas Hertz, Avis, Europcar and the rest are paying for people to staff their offices (and each one has thousands of offices) and to buy enough cars to be able to offer you things like a guarantee of having a car, all that Holiday Autos do is negotiate a bulk hire rate and pass the savings on to you. I say “all” but, of course, that’s hard enough I’m sure.

One of the interesting things I found is that although Europcar are normally the outfit that supplies their cars around Europe, it costs more to hire the same car directly from Europcar and the terms of the rental aren’t as good either. For example, I wanted to do a one way drop off once: the Holiday Autos price was 30€/day for the car whilst the Europcar rate was 50€/day AND there was a 100€ dropoff charge from Europcar vs none from Holiday Autos.

Anyway, save yourself both time and money and just book with Holiday Autos. Just be sure to book well in advance as they do sell out of the very best offers quite early.

We girls are pretty easy to please when it comes to gifts. We just like to be appreciated and when our special man takes the time to think about us and surprise us with something nice, well, we like to show our ‘appreciation’ eh?

Men really do like to buy nice lingerie for their partner but can often find the experience a bit intimidating to go into a shop and browse the racks. The best solution is to look at La Perla. The items are just beautiful and designed to suit all shapes and sizes; so long as you know ‘her’  fitting and favourite colours you cannot go wrong making a purchase for her from their range of lingerie.

Here’s a tip: ask a female friend of hers, if you are not too sure about things such as sizing/style, and get some assistance from a female point of view. I can assure you – when she opens her gift she will love whatever it is you have personally chosen for her.