http://www.ooh.com/blog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:04:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Following a great response to our last competition with Food Safari, today we're launching our next free giveaway with Farncombe Estate in the Cotswolds. Farncombe Estate lists many of their fantastic residential art and creative courses on Ooh.com. Set in 300 acres of privately owned parkland with stunning views, they offer a ... http://www.ooh.com/blog/general/new-competition-win-a-weekend-for-2-in-the-cotswolds/ Knitting has got cool, very cool. Lots of people are at it, and lots more want to learn. Here's your quick guide to the cool world of knitting, and some of the best people out there doing it. Guerilla knitting Guerilla knitting is a new and fast-growing phenomenon. Just to be clear, this is ... http://www.ooh.com/blog/general/knitting-not-for-grannies-or-gorillas/ We're big fans of adventure and off-the-beaten-path travel. But sometimes we all fancy a bit of luxe in our life. So swapping backpacks for Burberry luggage, and hostels for hot stone treatments, here are some of the most luxurious vacation options on Ooh.com. These really will let you travel and unravel. Just ... http://www.ooh.com/blog/general/unravel-with-travel/ So our first giveaway, in partnership with the fantastic Food Safari was a big hit.  We were featured, tweeted, emailed and facebooked about all over the place.  The competition is now closed, and we are pleased to announce Karen from Luton as our first winner, who will now enjoy a ... http://www.ooh.com/blog/general/we-have-a-winner/ What better way to explore the remote regions of Mongolia than on horseback? This trip is for people with a sense of adventure and a desire to get off the beaten track. The areas you’ll visit are difficult to get to, with erratic flights and challenging roads. This means you’re ... http://www.ooh.com/blog/general/travel-explore-the-remote-regions-of-mongolia-on-horseback/ “Food, glorious food”. Hear hear to that, and with food and cooking being one of the most popular categories on Ooh.com, here’s a round-up of some of our favourite screen-licking food blogs and their writers: Helen Graves, Food Stories Helen sums herself up with “I like to cook and eat – a ... http://www.ooh.com/blog/general/screen-licking-blogs/ This week we've chosen two $100 winning listings very nearly 10,000 miles apart. I used wolframalpha.com to find that out, and while I was there, I discovered this distance takes a plane travelling at 550mph about 17 hours and 40 minutes, but takes light only about 73 milliseconds (1/4 of ... http://www.ooh.com/blog/general/this-weeks-100-winners-horseback-safari-in-arusha-and-electric-bike-tour-in-san-francisco/ Just a small something that whetted our appetites on a Friday morning - not that it takes much, it's a pretty hungry, food-loving desk at Ooh.com, in fact as I write this the team is ploughing into an enormous mountain of croissants that needs crampons and ropes rather than just ... http://www.ooh.com/blog/general/become-a-curd-nerd-and-live-longer-apparently/ It's that time of the week again when we announce this week's winning $100 listers. We have more and more great listings being put up each week, but this week's winners are..... We love the surf lessons being offered by the O'Neill Surf Academy at the well-known and achingly fashionable Watergate Bay in ... http://www.ooh.com/blog/general/our-100-winners-bring-you-great-surfing-and-stunning-cycling/ When adventurer Alastair Humphreys is not swimming the North Sea to wrestle with the polar bears you’d think he might rest his weary, world travelled soul on the sofa at home with the Eastenders Omnibus and a packet of chocolate digestives. Well you’d be wrong. He’d rather be hatching plans ... http://www.ooh.com/blog/general/adventurer-alastair-humphreys%e2%80%99-top-10-happiest-travel-memories/