By Denis Campbell
“Cold enough for you?” “Yes, quite. Now go ____ yourself,” would be an appropriate local reply. Mostly though I behave like the gang of diabolical penguins in the animated film Madagascar, “just smile and wave boys, smile and wave.”
Today, sitting in an Amsterdam airport hotel room (thanks to the good folks at Hilton [...]
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Best to Live on a Bus Route
Posted on 10 January 2010 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: Bristol, Bristol Airport, Cardiff, Cardiff Airport, cold weather, delays, Schiphol, snow
The Thrill of Victory – Celebrating the Last 811 Finishers And The 44 Who Tried
Posted on 19 October 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 1:05:50, 8811 runners, and Leanne and Irene Young, Barnardo's Cardiff Half Marathon, Cardiff, Paula, Simon Lawson, Sophie Chambers, Vincent and Jane Browne, winner
By Denis Campbell
It was a Chamber of Commerce day for the 8,811 chip-timed Barnardo’s Wales Cardiff Half Marathon runners Sunday who raised £1 million pounds for this children’s charity and countless other thousands for charities around the UK and the world. As many know, I ran my first ever ½ marathon after recovering from a [...]
A Tale of Two Cities: Why Is Economic Development So Difficult in Wales?
Posted on 14 October 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Cardiff, Coral Gables, Dade County, Dylan Jones-Evans, IBW, International Business Wales, Miami, Price Waterhouse, ROI, The Western Mail, Wales, Welsh Assembly Government, Welsh Development Agency
By Denis Campbell
This article also appears in the Fall ‘09 Edition of Cambria Magazine.
Timing is everything. The Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) waited until just before summer recess to release details of £700,000+ pounds of credit card expenditures by International Business Wales (IBW) for global trade. It exploded then died over summer break. Dylan Jones-Evans wrote [...]
£2K for 10K No-Brainer or Pennywise But Pound Foolish?
Posted on 08 September 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (4) | Tags: Bill Savage, Cardiff, Cardiff and Co, HSBC 10K
HSBC 10K Run Highlights Cardiff Sport Glory – But Where Was Cardiff and Co?
By Denis Campbell
Under brilliant sunshine and cool pre-fall temps, the Cardiff 10-K went off Sunday with 3,000 pairs of feet pounding the pavement around the national capital city. While many runners supported the Children’ Kidney Centre at University Hospital, participant teams and [...]
UK Progressive’s Recession Busting Suggestion Box
Posted on 07 August 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: $2 billion dollars, 4/10th of 1%, Cardiff, Cash for Clunkers, consumer credit, Denis Campbell, MP expenses, Open Source Govt. 2.0, Toyota, US car companies, US Senators, used car, Washington, Westminster, yobs
By Denis Campbell
The USA’s ‘Cash for Clunkers’ was just extended a new $2 billion dollar funding lifeline. It is such a simple programme doing so much good on so many levels, we wondered if schemes like it could boost the UK and global economy? Between zombie banks, MP Expenses and the pound getting pounded, we [...]
Cardiff and Baltimore, Separated at Birth? (Reprise)
Posted on 23 July 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (2) | Tags: airports, Baltimore, BWI, Camden Yards, Cardiff, Cardiff Bay, Columbia, CWL, Denis Campbell, Harbor Place and The Gallery, James Rouse, M&T Bank Stadium, Maryland, Millenium Stadium, Millennium Centre, stadiums, vadimus post, Wales, Washington DC
How can two cities from two different sides of the ocean be so alike in so many ways? Vadimus Post’s Denis Campbell looks at this psychological “Tale of Two Cities.”
Lib Dems: Upset Bound or Permanent 3rd Party?
Posted on 18 April 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Angel Hotel, Cardiff, Kirsty Williams, Lib Dems, Nick Clegg, Party Conference, Welsh Lib Dems
By Denis Campbell
Welsh Lib Dems are meeting this weekend in Cardiff for the annual Welsh conference. While the Lib Dems have a chance to tap into voter distrust of both Labour and the Tories, can they overcome voter apathy and provide a real 3rd party choice?
At this point there is little to distinguish them from [...]
All Aboard – Amtrak Is Full Up
Posted on 23 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 10x per day crisscrossing the NE corridor, 12-minutes magically added to the schedule, 150 mph (220 kph), 1st Great Western, 28 million people (up from 25.6 million), 33% increase in the budget for Amtrak, abandon cars, Acela, age and neglect, alternatives, Amsterdam, Amtrak, Amtrak’s Northeast corridor, Anglo-French Eurostar, antiquated system, Atlanta-Dallas, avoid long drives, Belgians, boon to travellers, Boston, Bridgend, British TGV, Cardiff, Chicago-St. Louis, Congress, Congress seems to be listening, continually slept, deferred major infrastructure projects, delays are often very long, Dutch, EU, Eurostar, exceed 300 kph or 200 mph, Frankfurt Airport, French, French in particular, German, Germans, high cost of petrol, high petrol costs, high speed rail, huge economic toll between major cities, huge struggle, ICE, infrastructure, Joe Biden, lengthen the time of the journey, London, London Paddington, long-running joke, Naval Observatory Circle, need 5-10x that amount, night and day, old equipment, owns 700-miles of trackbed, Paris, plagued with delays, poor quality track beds, public train transport, reener opportunity, rents from freight lines, ridership was up 14% in July, San Franscisco-LA, US citizens love to mock Europeans, US train system, USA, Vice President, Wales, Wall Street Journal, Washington DC
Now that Joe Biden may live this January in Naval Observatory Circle as Vice President that would free a seat daily on Amtrak’s Northeast corridor. But will it be enough? Amtrak ridership was up 14% in July and because of the high cost of petrol more than 28 million people (up from 25.6 million) will [...]
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