Barcelona is one of my favourite cities, especially for aimless wandering (there’s always something intriguing to see) and for eating, too. When my budget is getting low I always like to check out local food markets and Barcelona’s Boqueria Market is one that’s stuck in my memory. It’s a huge area these days, and filled [...]
Travelodge UK are offering rooms for only £9 in their Summer sale for stays between 5 May to 6 September 2009. Update 31 December 2008 13:35 Yesterday I’ve managed to book a clutch of £9 rooms in Edinburgh during May, June and the first half of July. There are only a few £9 rooms left [...]
Koper is a Slovenian city that is right on the border with Italy. Koper was originally built on an island very near the shore. Now the island is a peninsula as a straight that has been filled in. The Golden Age of Koper was during the 15th and 16th centuries and was controlled by the [...]
I hope you are reading this post coddled in warm blankets, enjoying steaming mugs of tea and basking in the glow of Christmas lights from your tree. (Or whatever ritual you may have for your holiday season!) I was reflecting on the array of fantastic places we’ve discovered this year. So I was struggling to [...]
Already my thoughts are turning to the promise of spring sunshine and where better than Spain’s third largest city of Valencia. I visited Valencia with my family last April and when the weather was grey in England we enjoyed a sunny cycle ride in the Turia Gardens. Most cities have a river running through them, [...]
A few weeks ago I mentioned a cheap sightseeing activity in Moscow – exploring the metro stations which have been decorated like art galleries – and a couple of people were worried about the high costs of accommodation in Russia. And that’s fair enough because places like Moscow’s Ritz-Carlton do usually make the list of [...]
Recently I suffered from a massive technological meltdown, right before I was leaving home on a three month trip. Due to one thing or another (primarily budget and the inability to decide if I should make the leap to Mac) I wound up departing without a laptop, something which would have caused me unending headaches [...]
Maribor is the second largest city in Slovenia and the city and the surrounding areas are packed with things to do, especially if you are a lover of wine and wine roads and winter and active sports. The city lies on the river Drava at the meeting point of the Pohorje Mountain, the Drava Valley, [...]
If you’re thinking about a new place to see in Germany that you might have missed before, then think about Hamburg. Great Museums The city has some absolutely superb museums. My favourite of the trip is the Hamburger Kunsthalle, just next to the main train station. It has a very impressive modern art exhibition, as [...]
This week I visited the Covent Garden area of London with my teenage daughter as a pre-Christmas treat and I was struck by what a bustling, vibrant and fun place it is to spend an afternoon in London. A fruit and vegetable garden was set up at Covent Garden in the 1660s, after the Great [...]
