I booked a hostel months ago. When I got here I thought I'd try to find a hotel, the only thing I found was in a four-star hotel for 690 euros ($817) a night, four-times their normal rate.

As far as we know we're the first in the market to offer a policy with a DVT death policy. If a passengers dies during the insured trip or within 72 hours of returning home, they are covered.

I would give something up if it was a matter of life or death, but for financial reasons, no.

We decided we would offer lotteries to those charities on the basis that we would give them as many as was needed as long as it didn't exceed their voluntary income, because that sudden influx of funds would create problems for them.

We?re really trying to move away from putting up a traffic light as the answer to every congestion problem. Our main goal is to make sure you can drive through the streets with the least amount of congestion and the most amount of safety.

With this method, we let the gravity of a dim, intervening star act as a giant natural telescope for us, magnifying a more distant star, which then temporarily looks brighter.