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The Savvy Scot

Personal finance and lifestyle blog

6 Ways to Stay Fit While You Travel

By savvyscot

But, getting a good workout and staying with your routine while traveling can help you lose weight, not gain. And we all know a good workout helps you sleep better, as long as it isn’t right before bed!

  While summer may be coming to an end, at Savvyscot.com we are interested in fitness all year round! That said, check out the following guest post with some top tips on staying fit as you travel! While these examples are based on a holiday to Florida, they can be applied just about anywhere. Happy… Read more

Filed Under: Guest Posts, Gym Tagged With: fit, stay fit as you travel, travel fitness, ways to keep fit when you travel, ways to stay fit on holiday

Savvy Scot’s Groupon Giveaway

By savvyscot

Groupon Giveaway @savvyscot

Today I am hosting my first every giveaway!! 😀 Here’s the deal: Up for grab is a £50 Groupon Voucher which can be redeemed on the Groupon UK website – on any deal of your choosing! All you have to do is enter below using the Rafflecopter widget!  If you have been sleeping for the… Read more

Filed Under: Guest Posts Tagged With: £50 Groupon Voucher, Enter Groupon Competition, groupon, Groupon Competition, Groupon contest, Groupon Voucher, Savvy Competition

Starting a Blog in the UK – Pt. 1 Key Decisions

By savvyscot

Starting a Blog in the UK – Pt. 1 Key Decisions

Starting to write a blog is becoming increasing popular. A lot of people have the misconception that it is an easy way to make a fast buck. Unfortunately it requires more effort than first meets the eye. The internet is teaming with articles/ebooks/seminars/videos which comprehensively explain how to start a blog – from choosing your… Read more

Filed Under: Growing a Blog, Money Making, Personal Finance Tagged With: Blog, how to make a UK blog, how to start a blog from the UK, How to start blogging, make money blogging, Make money blogging UK, Start a Blog, start a UK blog, UK Blogging, UK money blogs

How Technology is Changing the Olympics

By savvyscot

How Technology is Changing the Olympics

I wasn’t initially planning to attend any of the Olympic events because quite frankly I thought that the ticketing system was a complete joke: You had to produce the cash up front for the tickets for any events that you were interested in, (i.e. if you wanted to go to 10 events, you would pay… Read more

Filed Under: Sport Tagged With: London 2012 Technology, Olympic Slow Motion Cameras, Olympic Timing Device, Olympics Technology, Technology, Technology in the Olympics

I beat United Airlines

By savvyscot

I have been waiting to write this post for a while. As some of you will know, Mrs Scot and I visited Roatan in June and had a very pleasant outward journey with United Airlines. What I didn’t tell you is that we sure as hell paid for the good luck on the return journey…. Read more

Filed Under: Money Making, Travel Tagged With: Jeff Smisek, Letter from United Airlines, Letter to get compensation, Mechanical Failure, United Airlines, United Airlines compensation, United Airlines customer service, United Airlines Mechanical Failure

Free Fuel for a Year!

By savvyscot

The prices at the pumps are still at close to all-time highs and many of us are feeling the pinch when it comes to pumping our petrol. Luckily, Swiftcover are offering an amazing opportunity to win free fuel for a year! Whether you are a motorway mile muncher, or a city car cruiser you would… Read more

Filed Under: Guest Posts Tagged With: free fuel, free fuel competition, swiftcover competition, switcover insurance, win diesel, win free fuel for a year, win fuel, win petrol

Quickest Ways to Save Money

By savvyscot

Quickest Ways to Save Money

There’s a strong element of truth in that old saying, “Look after the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves”.  If you are struggling to save enough money for that deposit on a house, or towards your next holiday, here are some tips for how you can build your savings as quickly as possible…. Read more

Filed Under: Guest Posts, Saving Money Tagged With: quick ways to save money, save cash now, Save Money, Save Money immediately, save money now, Saving Money, top ways to save, top ways to save money

Should Insurance Information be Displayed on Your Car?

By savvyscot

Insurance Car

A surprising fact that has come to light recently is that up to 1.2 million vehicles are being used on the road in the UK without having insurance cover in place. The consequences for anyone involved in an accident with someone who has no insurance can be disastrous. Some have therefore called for the introduction… Read more

Filed Under: Guest Posts, Insurance Tagged With: Insurance, insurance claim, proof of insurance, UK display proof of insurance, UK insurance disc, UK uninsured driver accident, Uninsured drivers, Uninsured drivers in the UK

Blue Turaco, Mto Wa Mbu, Tanzania

By savvyscot

Blue Turaco, Mto Wa Mbu, Tanzania

The following is a guest post from Off The Beaten Path – A great resource for unconventional Travel Destinations (right up my street for sure) – Here is a taster of what they have to offer. The one downside is that each update will  probably make most of us sick that we are sitting in… Read more

Filed Under: Adrenaline Junkie, Guest Posts, Travel Tagged With: Blue Turaco, Off the beaten path, off the beaten path travel, Tanzania Travel, Tanzania travel tales, travel fun, travel stories, Unconventional Travel

Taking Inspiration from the Olympics

By savvyscot

Taking Inspiration from the Olympics

The vast majority of us can only dream about winning an Olympic gold medal, and will have to contend with running to the top of the staircase and jumping for joy when nobody is looking, but there is no doubting that London 2012 is inspiring people across the planet to be more active. Perhaps none… Read more

Filed Under: Guest Posts Tagged With: Olympics, sports cover, sports insurance, Taking up new sports from the olympics

How Much is Enough?

By savvyscot

To those of you who entered my competition to win a share in the Euromillions £100M prize fund last week – bad luck – we didn’t win. In fact, nobody won. The jackpot now stands at: £119M – Wow! What an unimaginably large sum of money! I am sure that everyone has at some point… Read more

Filed Under: Money Making, Personal Finance Tagged With: Making Money, much, retire at 50, retirement, retiring early, saving for the future

UK – Falling Out of Love and Falling Into Debt

By savvyscot

UK Debt

The following guest post describes the horrendous situation that debt is causing people in the UK to get into and some of the severe personal consequences that are associated with this. Borrowing up to twice the amount of our western European counterparts, a report has found that up to 25 people every day in the… Read more

Filed Under: Guest Posts, Personal Finance Tagged With: debt and relationships, UK, UK Broken Marriages because of debt, UK Debt, UK Debt and relationships, UK Debt Problems, UK Debts

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