Ongoing fun with the Nokia N95 and its beatiful integrated GPS Satellite Navigation ( Sat Nav ). You have to hand it t o the americans for uploading all those satellites.

Luke writes :“ I have just set up the routemaster gps on my phone and if you haven’t done it already you’ll love it - go to: www.wisepilot.com where they are offering a free 5 day trial of their Navigation Software for the Nokia N95 and other mobiles.„

I go to check it out, but am held back by earlier experiences of data charges whilst driving.

The Nokia N95 is so fully featured that one is sure that it has been created by Nokia’s most generous and benevolent development team who saw it as a chance to stake their claim as maket leaders in mobile telephones. They should revive, what I suspect was a slightly flagging brand-loyal customer base and may have made the iPhone redundant in the UK before it is even released.

I am on the road to nowhere, but at least I know where I am.

ParkatmyHouse.com is a new and innovative website that enables local residents with empty driveways and garages, and businesses or venues with unused car parks, to rent them out to drivers needing somewhere to park.

Motorists on their way to a hospital, sports stadium or train station for example, can make an arrangement with a homeowner to use his or her driveway on a one-off or regular, short-term or long-term basis.

ParkatmyHouse.com is being welcomed as a green solution to parking.By reducing on-street parking, the service will help ease traffic congestion and make the roads safer for pedestrians and cyclists. It will also preserve land which would otherwise be used for the construction of new parking facilities and cut down the amount of carbon emitted by vehicles circumnavigating areas in search of a parking space.

ParkatmyHouse.com was founded by 23 year-old Anthony Eskinazi whilst on holiday in San Francisco. Since its launch, the website has featured on BBC radio stations and in nearly all the national newspapers including The Times, The Daily Express and The Observer as well as in an array of international media.

Now, you are looking to reserve a hotel and you don’t know where to start. I travel often and many time I book a flight only package and have to ferret around online looking for a cheap room.

I was directed recently to a great site offering hotel discounts for rooms all over the world.

Just to check the system I entered Chania ( a smallish town on the north coast of Crete ) and was very pleased ( and I must say suprised ) to find 25 results. This, to me, is proof that Hotel Reservations has a large database of cheap hotels all over the world.

When I get off a flight in a foreign country the first thing I want is to get right out and into a hire car. I was glad to note that Hotel Reservations also allows you to search for a hire car, not just with one rental agent, but through several different companies.

Exploring the Hotel Reservations site further I was pleased to see it has a truly international format. You can easily select from a list of languages and have the further option of changing the displayed currency.

The site also contains a very comprehensive city guides section and, exploring it to an obscure level I found an entry for a small village on the south coast of Crete, Plakias. Now this is, on a global scale, an obscure place, but Hotel Reservations managed two well written paragraphs on it as well as a link to some cheap hotels in the area.

The website was easy to use and gave me great results for whatever I searched for. As I am in the process of booking a family holiday and on the lookout for a cheap hotel ( along with car hire ) I shall be bookmarking and revisiting the website very shortly.