Driving holidays in Europe for the independent motorist.

Newsletter Summer 2010

Regular readers will know that we no longer issue a regular newsletter. Instead we use Twitter, the Drive-Alive Blog, and, lately, Facebook.

These services allow us to keep in touch more frequently, sending you snippets on Twitter, a bit more detail on Facebook, and more in-depth information on our blog. If we have anything which we think everybody should know, then we can still use the newsletter.

DRIVE-ALIVE ON FACEBOOK
It took us a while to get to grips with the benefits of Facebook, and we're still learning, but we are now posting regularly to our Facebook Wall. We see this as the place to inform our users in more depth than is possible on Twitter, but more informally than through our blog. For example we expanded on the car hijack scam and onboard pantomimes mentioned briefly in Twitter, and reported on the forthcoming move to offer ferry passengers the same rights to compensation for delays as is given to airline passengers.

But for us the most interesting possibilities lie in the interactive nature of Facebook. If you visit the Drive-Alive wall you will see that you can "Comment", so if you've anything to add or want to tell us what you think, we'd be delighted to hear from you. There's also a very important (to Drive-Alive) button - the "like" button. We are new to Facebook, but the more people who "like" us the sooner our words of wisdom will permeate throughout the Internet. So if you'd like to give us a boost, click the "like" link!

DRIVE-ALIVE ON TWITTER
Tweets are short texts which we use to let our visitors know what's happening in the world of driving holidays. Amongst our recent Tweets we warned of carjacking in Spain, told you about pantomimes on board ferries, and high-lighted the not often seen discounts on Eurotunnel. We've even been known to use humour in our Tweets.

The Drive-Alive Twitter page is where all our recent Tweets can be found, and if you want to pass on any of our Tweets then just click the "Retweet" link. You can even reply to these Tweets, so if you'd like to tell us something or comment on our website or anything else to do with Drive-Alive, and don't need more than 140 characters to say it, this is the place to do it

At the top of our Twitter page there is a link to "Follow Drive-Alive". This is the best way to keep up to date because every time we post a Tweet you will receive a copy on your own Twitter page. Unless you already belong, you do need to sign up to Twitter, but this is a quick process. Apart from providing a user name and password you can get involved with Twitter as much or as little as you like.

THE DRIVE-ALIVE BLOG
This is where you can find our equivalent of an article about a particular subject relevant to driving in Europe, or any of the peripheral activities which accompany a motoring trip on the Continent.

For example, we recently returned from our trip by car to Greece through the former Eastern European countries of Hungary, Serbia and Macedonia. We posted a number of articles about the experience. We hope these not only give a flavour of how interesting and enjoyable we found this journey but will also prove useful to others thinking of doing the same. Visit the page about our driving trip to Greece which contains links to pages for each stage of our journey.

During the Volcanic Ash Cloud crisis we used Twitter and the blog to keep people informed as to how the situation was developing and where there was ferry availability, with daily posts on the blog and summaries on Twitter.

You can subscribe to our blog to make sure you don't miss a post, send it to other blogging services, comment, and so on, all using simple links on the page.

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