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Valentine, You *Readly* My Mind!



Posted on 2019-02-05 by tikichris

Stuck for Valentine’s Day ideas? Or maybe you’re looking to seal the deal with a little something extra to what you’ve already lined up? Be sure to keep Readly in mind for you and your better half, especially if you both love to read and to travel. Continue reading →

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Urban: Wellness That Comes to You | #TCTalks 62

Posted on 2019-01-30 by tikichris

Here’s the most relaxed and relaxing episode of tikichris Talks yet – and one that’ll save you money doing something that makes you feel great. It’s all about Urban, the app and web-based way for you to book wellness treatments … Continue reading →

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Urban: Wellness That Comes to You | #TCTalks 62

Posted on 2019-01-30 by tikichris

Episode 62 of #TCTalks is all about Urban, the app and web-based way for you to book wellness treatments – such as massage, manicures and pedicures, facials and osteo services – in your own home, office or hotel room. Continue reading →

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Urban: Massage, Osteo and More in Your Own Home, Office or Hotel

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Posted on 2019-01-26 by tikichris

Did you know there’s a no-stress way to book the treatments you need – massage, nails, skincare and osteopathy – in the comfort and privacy of your own home, office or hotel? Continue reading →

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Get £4 Off Your First Three Rides with ViaVan

Posted on 2019-01-03 by tikichris

Have you tried ViaVan – the app that combines the best of a private taxi and public transport for affordable and fast trips across London? Sign up now with my referral code chris3a8r for £4 off your next three rides.

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Win All You Can Read for Three Months with Readly Digital Magazine App

Posted on 2018-06-12 by tikichris

Readly’s catalogue is vast with magazines for all tastes and persuasions. Top titles include GQ, Hello!, Empire, T3, Top Gear, Marie Claire, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan, BBC Good Food plus lots, lots more. The app feature 35 unique categories to browse and more than 2,700 titles – available at the touch of your finger. Continue reading →

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8 Free Smartphone Apps You Need When You Travel (Going Places)

Posted on 2017-09-23 by tikichris

Check out this octet of free to download apps for iPhone and Android devices that everyone should have on their phone when they travel. Continue reading →

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Win £500 and a Crate of Ale from 24hourlondon

Posted on 2017-07-14 by tikichris

Download an app (for free), tell the developers what you honestly think about it and win £500 plus a crate of craft beer? Where do I sign up?!? Keep reading for details about a fun competition from 24hourlondon offering the chance to win £500 and a crate of Tremethick craft ale. Continue reading →

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24hourlondon Meets Social Media Influencer tikichris (24hourlondon)

Posted on 2017-06-22 by tikichris

I sat down for a cold pint and a cool chat with Emma Hartley of 24HourLondon recently. Emma was interested in interviewing me about being a “social media influencer” and such. Emma’s free to download 24hourlondon app for iPhone and … Continue reading →

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Tabun Kitchen, Soho

Posted on 2017-04-02 by tikichris

Tabun Kitchen serves “Jerusalem home cooking” from a comfortable Soho nook on Berwick Street. I had a satisfying lunch there recently and thought I’d pass the word on about it. Continue reading →

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Pulp – Fun New Way to Learn about Wine

Posted on 2017-03-31 by tikichris

Pulp is a new startup for budding wine enthusiasts that wants to make you a wine expert at-home and at-ease … and at 50% off for tikichris readers. Continue reading →

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Get Five Free Lunches in London with MealPal

Posted on 2017-03-28 by tikichris

For a limited time, I’ve teamed up with MealPal to offer readers five free lunches. Continue reading →

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Lunch at Tostado

Posted on 2017-03-10 by tikichris

Blink and you’ll miss it (and miss out) – tiny Tostado in Soho offers Ecuadorian fare at a fair price and with a warm Latin welcome. Continue reading →

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Mister Lasagna, Rupert Street, Soho

Posted on 2017-03-08 by tikichris

Mister Lasagna serves (as you might have surmised already) fresh made lasagna, with a varied range of this popular Italian oven treat on offer alongside an assortment of fresh pastas dishes, snacks and desserts. Continue reading →

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London Meet MealPal and Get a Week’s Worth of Lunches for Free

Posted on 2017-02-20 by tikichris

Super popular American lunch app – MealPal – has launched in London. Through the app, you can reserve quick pickup lunches for less than £5 per meal at a time and place convenient for you. But before you get all excited about that, check out this opportunity to give the app spin with a week’s worth of free lunches with no obligation to continue after that. Continue reading →

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Good Stuff #59

Posted on 2016-08-16 by tikichris

Good stuff and lots of it! Here’s the low down on some fine things to see, sip, savour and more – all of which I’ve recently come across and thought were worth sharing with you. Enjoy.

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Bidvine: A Safe Bet for Hiring the Right Pro

Posted on 2016-07-24 by tikichris

Bidvine is an app-based and online local services marketplace that dubs itself as “the easiest way to find and hire local professionals.” The folks at Bidvine recently got in touch to see if I’d like to browse their site and see about giving one of the services a go. I took ‘em up on it. My house has never been cleaner. Continue reading →

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Have a Drinki on Me

Posted on 2015-09-03 by tikichris

Drinki is the world’s first app to reward users with free cocktails in return for Facebook check-ins. The free-to-download app for iOS or Android features more than 60 bars in London (with new venues joining every week) along with bars in Manchester and Liverpool too. Continue reading →

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A Taste of Puglia: Sightseeing in the Salento

Posted on 2015-06-11 by tikichris

So as I alluded in the intro to this series about my time in Puglia, my aim is to share the best bits of my time there as well as highlight some Pugliese treats I’ve come across here in London. But where to start? I suppose at the source is as good a place as any, especially when it’s as beautiful as the Salento, the very bottom of the country’s so called boot heel. Continue reading →

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Good Stuff #42

Posted on 2015-06-07 by tikichris

Good stuff and lots of it! Here’s the lowdown on some fine things to see, sip or savour – all of which I’ve recently come across and thought were worth sharing with you. Enjoy. Jean-Pierre Braganza Limited Edition Sunglasses for … Continue reading →

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Get a Free Side with Your Lobster Roll or Calamari Club at Fraq’s Lobster Shack

Posted on 2015-06-07 by tikichris

Love lobster and calamari? Ever find yourself passing through Goodge Street or around Tottenham Court Road? Like getting yummy stuff for free? Then check this out! I’ve joined forces with PocketHighStreet and Fraq’s Lobster Shack to offer tikichris readers a special discount: one free side order with any purchase of a Boston Lobster Roll or a Calamari Club Roll when you buy your roll online at pockethighstreet.com or via the handy dandy PocketHighStreet app. Continue reading →

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Find Sicily’s Tastiest Spots with the Free Agromobile App (OneTravel)

Posted on 2015-05-20 by tikichris

A recent and delicious visit to Sicily was made all the more juicy, fruitful and scenic with the Agromobile app. Agromobile is a website and a free to download app sharing food and wine related itineraries in Sicily. Interested “land … Continue reading →

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Barcelona Brief: Too Brief but Brilliant!

Posted on 2015-05-13 by tikichris

Just back from far too few but still wonderfully rejuvenating days in Barcelona, it’s easy to proclaim it as the ideal getaway. So ideal, I can’t stop thinking about what it might be like to getaway there for good! No matter your “thing” – art, food, beach, luxury, street life, shopping, history … etc etc ad nauseum – or whether you’re one to zealously guard a small budget or magnificently blow a big one, you can do so with flying colours in this captivating Catalan capital. And if you’re like me and want the best of it all in maximum dosage, then keep an eye out for upcoming posts in my Barcelona Brief. Continue reading →

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Le Vie della Zagara: Experiencing Sicily with Gusto!

Posted on 2015-05-03 by tikichris

Le Vie della Zagara is a new initiative encouraging visitors to Sicily to take at least a little time of their beach bound holiday to explore the island’s surprisingly diverse landscape and enjoy its equally varied bounty of citrus and many more treats along the way. Continue reading →

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Get Lucky Riding with Addison Lee over St Patrick’s Day Weekend

Posted on 2015-03-12 by tikichris

To celebrate its Irish roots, Addison Lee, is offering the code to customers travelling to or from postcodes around the St Patrick’s Day Parade at Trafalgar Square (WC2, SW1 and W1). The code is valid on Sunday 15th March and redeemable once per customer. Continue reading →

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Good Stuff #38

Posted on 2015-02-16 by tikichris

Good stuff and lots of it! Here’s the low down on some fine things to see, sip or savour – all of which I’ve recently come across and thought were worth sharing with you. Enjoy. Bread Street Sessions with Dub … Continue reading →

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Addison Lee and the #MillionPoundGiveaway

Posted on 2015-01-19 by tikichris

Addison Lee, has announced a £1 million fare giveaway – its biggest ever price drop – offering London commuters £10 off up to 100,000 journeys from 20 January until 16 February 2015. To celebrate the new year, “Europe’s largest minicab … Continue reading →

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TripAdvisor App | Neighborhoods Project | Me

Posted on 2014-12-26 by tikichris

From my list of the Best Beaches Around Hawaii to my Holiday and New Year’s guides to London (with a bunch more recs, lists and itineraries jam-packed between), I’ve been having a blast contributing to one of the world’s most useful online resources for travel. Among the coolest undertakings with which I’ve helped has been the Neighborhoods project for the TripAdvisor app. Continue reading →

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Addison Lee Updates Its App for an Even Smoother Ride

Posted on 2014-11-10 by tikichris

Addison Lee has updated its free and popular app (over 850,000 downloads and counting) with live fleet mapping, multi-account bookings and more features. I had been rather content with the app as-is to be honest, but when the opportunity arose to review the updated version I was keen to give it a spin and was not disappointed. Continue reading →

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Carnaby Echoes Celebrating 100 Years of London Music (OneTravel)

Posted on 2014-11-03 by tikichris

These days Carnaby Street is probably best known as a Central London hub for designer shopping. But for much of its history, this iconic little Soho lane running between equally iconic Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Circus has been just as (or more) … Continue reading →

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XE Currency App Even Comes in Handy When You’re Offline (OneTravel)

Posted on 2014-09-13 by tikichris

The XE currency app enables travelers to “convert every currency on-the-go” by offering “live proprietary exchange rates and historical charts” to make calculating prices and exchange rates fast and hassle free. The app has seen more than 25 million downloads … Continue reading →

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The 4 Apps I Use Most for Getting around London (OneTravel)

Posted on 2014-08-20 by tikichris

When visiting a new city, do you ever wonder what apps the locals use to get around? Here’s a look at four apps that I use most often when moving around London. All are available to download for free. Read … Continue reading →

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My Basel: Taking the Make My Switzerland App for a Spin

Posted on 2014-07-01 by tikichris

Obviously you’ve heard about Switzerland’s stunning panoramas of and from its mighty Alps. But for my first of hopefully many more visits to this friendly little Alpine nation, I found the views shared via a handy Swiss app to be a real wonder to behold as well. The free to download app, called Make My Switzerland, is available via Google Play and Apple’s App Store and offers a wealth of insider knowledge about the things that savvy locals love best in seven Swiss cities – Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, Lucerne, Lugano, and Zurich. I gave the app a whirl over an especially fun weekend in Basel, and I’m more than happy to recommend the city and the app to anybody keen to explore a delightful and compact destination that’s big on culture. Continue reading →

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3 Easy Photo Editing Tools to Perfect Your Vacation Photos

Posted on 2014-05-06 by tikichris

Okay. So you’re back home from the perfect vacation where you shot some amazing photos. Now what? Sifting and sorting through all those files and editing them can be boring and time consuming while also taking away from moments you … Continue reading →

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MyCheck App Takes the Wait Out of Paying Your Restaurant Bill

Posted on 2014-03-12 by tikichris

A new (to London) restaurant bill payment app, MyCheck, that aims to do away with the hassle of waiting for someone else to process that payment and to put you in control of when can get up to go. I recently tried MyCheck and was impressed … and relieved that the answer to an elusive waiter might be only a click away. Continue reading →

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