Comments on: Guardian Travel Awards 2008

By: Three Great Reasons for a Trip to Glasgow « Europe a la Carte Blog

Three Great Reasons for a Trip to Glasgow « Europe a la Carte Blog — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:58:42 +0000

[...] Glasgow was in Lonely Planet’s Top Ten Cities and then again it made the list as one of the Guardian’s Top Five UK Cities. It will never top Edinburgh, where I call home, but here are three great reasons for a trip to [...]

By: The Top 20 Cities of 2020 « Europe a la Carte Blog

The Top 20 Cities of 2020 « Europe a la Carte Blog — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:01:35 +0000

[...] for all the awards it keeps winning. After recently reporting that Edinburgh was announced the best UK city in the Guardian Travel awards, we can now report the city has now been honoured by Ethisphere as one of the 20 cities of [...]

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:19:25 +0000

You know what, other than the place, I’m always in it for the food!

By: Andy Hayes

Andy Hayes — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:25:00 +0000

@ Anna/Karen: Italy is great because you can have all sorts of great holidays: food & wine, city, rural country, coastal paradise…

@ Happy Hotelier: Vienna = Best food in the world, bar none.

By: Karen Bryan

Karen Bryan — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:46:23 +0000

Anna – I agree it’s hard to come out with overall favourites. I loved Rome but we were there for our 20th wedding anniversary. I love Edinburgh too. I’m veering toward Italy as my favourite country too.

Happy Hotelier – I’ve never been to Vienna but my husband has and he said it was beautiful, perhaps I”ll get there soon as Ryanair are now flying from Edinburgh to Bratislava.

By: Happy Hotelier

Happy Hotelier — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:25:19 +0000

You don’t have to guess my favorite city: That’s Vienna off course!

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:31:26 +0000

Having a lot of fun thinking about this one. Although it’s actually quite difficult to separate out the city from the experience you have there and your state of mind at the time. For example, Barcelona sticks out in my mind as a fantastic city, but that is probably because it was my first weekend away with my husband without our 2 children, so we had a weekend devoted to each-other, sampling tapas & beer and enjoying a city.

As for favourite country, that’s quite hard, but on balance I would have to say Italy. Great wine, fabulous food and lots of piazzas where you can sit and watch the world go by….. And a better climate that the UK!