Armchair traveling is probably not for you if you are reading this blog, but if you do enjoy spending a quiet afternoon with a book, when your wanderlust has been satiated for the moment, you might consider making your next expedition a literary one. The Literary Traveler brings your classic and bohemian heroes to life [...]
As an alternative to Prague, I love visiting Brno in the east of the Czech Republic – as well as being a lovely city it’s a great access point to other adventures, too. With Brno as a base you can easily spend a day exploring the Moravian Karst, a really green area north of Brno [...]
Visit Bristol have a “Summer Specials” section in their website with details of hotel offers and discounted attractions tickets. There is also information about festivals and events such as the Bristol Harbour Festival and the Festival of the Tree. I liked the suggestion of a canoe safari to see the wildlife at close quarters at [...]
Awe-inspiring mountains, bankers, and top ski resorts are the common images the country Switzerland evokes, none of which are really associated with budget travel. So let’s jump to that other primary preconception… Picture this: A panorama of Alpine pastureland, lush green and dotted with edelweiss. Zooming in we see a herd of cows gently grazing, [...]
Residents of the Greek island of Lesbos have lost their legal battle to restrict the use of the word Lesbian to residents of the Lesbos. Some local residents felt that the island was being brought into disrepute by the use of the term to describe gay women which originates from the love poetry of the [...]
SAS have flights from London to Stockholm from £56 and if you arrive during August you qualify for a free 5 day Island Hopper tickets which allows unlimited travel on the ferries of the Stockholm Archipelago. The Hopper Ticket usually costs 340 SEK around £28. I did a search for availability of the offer price [...]
Everywhere I turn there are articles about staycations, it’s seems to be the in theme for travel this Summer due to the credit crunch and increased fuel, food and mortgage costs. I wrote an post called “7 reasons to have a holiday in your own home” on 30 June 2007 but didn’t come up with [...]
For bookings made on the World Hotels Stay in Europe, pay in dollars promotion, guests from North and South America can pay for the quoted Euro rate in US Dollars, a saving of around 40%. The promotion runs until 31 August 208, for stay from Thursdays to Mondays at participating hotels. I did have a [...]
The Scandic Hotels website does not make it easy for you to find ALL the deals and discounts that this chain currently has on offer. The English language “current offers” list is rather pitiful. So where are the discounts? On the Swedish language version of the website! That is not a very nice way of [...]
I sometimes wonder if using the word blog puts a lot of potential readers off reading the Europe a la Carte blog. After all blog or weblog has connotations of an personal online diary which isn’t an accurate description of this blog which II think is more of an online magazine with articles or posts [...]
