This post is brought to you by Europe a la Carte, adviser to English tourism. England have taken Europe a la Carte’s advice and jazzed up the border crossing into England on the A1. Entry to England was very low key with a tiny sign and no flags compared to the Scottish side which has [...]
We”re flying to Pisa for a seven night trip to Tuscany and Umbria the last week in May 2008. I want to stay at comfortable accommodation and pay an average of 70 euros, around £55 sterling or 108 US dollars for an ensuite double room including breakfast. The idea of our trip is to see [...]
Welcome to the third Europe Travel Carnival! I think that the Carnival is going really well due to the number of quality submissions I’m receiving. I do believe that I’m fulfilling my aim of publishing a quality blog carnival which is a coherent presentation of informative and entertaining posts for readers who love travel in [...]
Update 30 August 2010 – This competition took place in 2008. by ccgd Visit Scotland have a great site called “Cafe Days” enabling you to find your perfect cafe. The featured cafes are independent cafes, often struggling to survive with the every expanding empires of the likes of Costa Coffee (which I refer to as [...]
I saw a well known travel site asking for submissions on travel in Europe on a budget of around $100 a day per person so I pitched an article I’d written for my travel site giving advice and a costing breakdown for a stay in Edinburgh on a daily budget of £50 sterling (approx $100) [...]
Every year on May 1 the “Riding of the Bounds” takes place in Berwick upon Tweed. In 1438 Berwick became part of England after changing hands between England and Scotland several times. Berwick lies 3 miles from the Scottish border and I call the area Scengland. The “Riding of the Bounds” was initiated to check [...]
