Rachel Gawith

The Decline of the Fixed Rate Mortgage Product

For many years long-term fixed rate mortgages have been the backbone of the UK mortgage market, ensuring your repayments remain the same for ten years or longer, allowing you to budget easily for your monthly repayments to the bank or Building Society. Ho... Read >

Energy Efficient Plumbing Products

People are now turning to green alternatives in an effort to save planet earth. Among the various aspects like environment, interior decoration, waste disposal and air pollution, we tend to overlook our bathrooms where a lot of water gets wasted. Energy e... Read >

Ten Start-Up Tips for Using Submersible Pumps

Submersible pumps are utility pumps that can be used for a wide array of different jobs such as emptying a swimming pool or draining a flooded basement. Regardless of its function, here are ten tips for starting up a submersible pump to ensure proper and ... Read >

Why You Should Use An Exterminator

If you need an exterminator because you have a bug problem like spiders or coach roaches for example, whom do you trust to come into your home to spray? There is a list of questions you should ask when calling around. Here are some tips and facts to think... Read >

Ecommerce Essentials: A Merchant Account and Payment Gateway

If you are just starting an ecommerce business, searching for a merchant account and a payment gateway should be top priority. Together a merchant account and payment gateway will enable you to accept online payments in the form of credit cards directly o... Read >

Tips for Buying from Global Sellers on Internet Auctions

Purchasing anything online carries risks but those risks can increase significantly when buying through an online auction. Add to the fact that the seller is from a different country and you may not always get what you pay for. As such, practicing a healt... Read >

Costs of Car Hire Compared to Private Transfer Service

There are various options for travelling from the airport to your ski resort – you could catch the train, a coach, a private mini-bus transfer or you could self-drive. However, train and coach times often do not always match your flight arrival or departu... Read >

The First Ski Lift and Subsequent Development

In the 17th century rope passenger ways were being used in Asia to cross chasms in the mountains but in 1616, a Venetian engineer by the name of Fausto Veranzio designed a bicable passenger ropeway. The Dutch man Wybe Adam then went on to build the first ... Read >

The History of Skiing

The first evidence of skiing is from around 6300 BC to 5000 BC and skis made of hard wood dating from this age were found near Lake Sindor, in Russia. Other skis have also found in other locations made from the bones of large animas, with leather straps t... Read >

The History of Courchevel Ski Resort in France

Whilst Courchevel might now be known as one of the largest ski areas in the world and also as the winter playground of the rich and famous, it started out as a study where the French State wanted to build a 'People's Ski Resort'. Following World War I... Read >

An Introduction to the Diversity of Bulgaria

Bulgaria offers a diverse range of countryside from majestic snow capped mountains, to flat plains, rolling fields and then the sandy beaches along the southern part of the coast and the more craggy areas to the north. There are numerous lakes and dams, g... Read >

Top 5 Tips For Buying Off-Plan in Bulgaria

In August 2004 I entered into a disastrous agreement to purchase an off-plan apartment in Bansko, Bulgaria. I encountered numerous problems such as the sales literature being misleading, facilities not being included as thought, no real views from my balc... Read >

Perperikon –the Temple of Dionysus in Mount Rhodope, Bulgaria

The fascinating remains of what many now believe to be the Temple of Dionysus, are perched high on a hill top in the Eastern Rhodope mountain range, around 15 kilometres or so from the town of Kardzhali. Currently the archaeological remains are still a wo... Read >

Fancy a Change? How about a property exchange?

Many People dream of leaving the UK for a variety of reasons. Is there anyone who hasn't had enough of the rain and cold by the time they're five? But of course, it isn't simply a matter of selling up and taking the plunge. It takes courage to leave behin... Read >

The Stara Zagora Region - Central Balkans, Bulgaria

The Stara Zagora region has one of the best climates in Bulgaria because of the southern location and because the Balkan Mountains serve as barrier for the winds from North. It means milder winters, although snow still covers the mountains and warm summer... Read >