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We are already wondering where to go for Easter 2010. We have already booked a major voyage to Australia for the end of the year and we will be travelling via Florida, so we have been looking at Disney vacation packages to keep make the kids dreams come true. Well okay…mine too.

But as for Easter: bearing in mind that we have the big trip later on we dont want to travel too far for just three days so we have narrowed it down to either Glasgow or Edinburgh, but I would prefer Glasgow as I haven’t been there yet and it looks as though that city has all the things I like.

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There had to be a catch to it somewhere eh…? but it is a genuine offer. One US vaccine manufacturer is offering a novel incentive for people willing to take part in a drug trial for a remedy for ‘holiday tummy’. Up to 900 volunteers can apply for a free holiday in Mexico or Guatemala to the value of £1,400 – and all they need to do is eat, drink and see if they get sick.

Accommodation in three-star hotels is included, as well as flights, and travellers can go where they like – as long as they are within three hours of test centres where they can provide blood and stool samples if they are struck down with a stomach upset. The trips are being billed as ‘almost like going on a package holiday’, and recruitment clinics are opening up in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Belfast, Glasgow and even Reading. All they have to do is wear a patch on their arm for six hours, three weeks before they go away, followed by another the week before travel, then take their holiday as planned and see if they get sick.

The vaccine has already been tested on American volunteers who travelled to Mexico and Guatemala, and results showed the drug reduced incidents of diarrhoea by 75 per cent.

Volunteers can find more information on the study at www.trekstudy.com. and if you are up for it then why not…?

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Were you planning to travel to somewhere nice, mild and warm this Xmas…? were you planning to fly with British Airways…? well BA have decided to extend to their travellers their warmest regards for the festive season – by going on strike during the Xmas week and disrupting their customers plans. Typical.

Cabin crew have decided that going on strike from 22nd December to the 2nd January will get their message across nicely and completely stuff up the holiday plans of thousands of people this coming Xmas – and all over their already well salaried conditions of employment. I have a few words for these people…

Happy redundancy all of you. There are many people in this country who would give their right arm for the jobs that you have and on an average pay of £29,000 a year when Virgin cabin crew earn £14,000! Don’t expect sympathy from the general public when it is the general public who will lose out on all of this.
Secondly when you work for an organisation that is an national airline you don’t only let yourselves down but the country. You owe it to your country to serve the people who use that airline. If not you should leave, find another job. If I were BA I would sack all of you for the way you are behaving now, and at this time of the year too just as you all are ruining some people’s Xmas’s.

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