Amsterdam’s premier modern art museum, the Stedelijk, has been closed for a number of years for refurbishment. The museum was operating at an alternate location – the edgy, half-constructed Post CS building near Centraal Station. Unfortunately, the CS site has closed and the main Stedelijk building on the Museumplein is not open until 2010. However, [...]
If you’re visiting one of the centres of religious pilgrimage such as Rome or Assisi, you may like to consider staying in a convent, monastery or religious guest house, for simple, homely accomodation which is often very central for sightseeing. When I visited Rome with my parents and son last spring, we stayed in Residenza [...]
Vienna is one of my favourite cities, because it’s the kind of place where you just turn a corner and stumble into another piece of cultural history – maybe musical, or artistic, or something else. My favourite art spot in Vienna is the KunstHausWien. The name literally means “Art House Vienna”, but it’s actually a [...]
At last England hsd taken on board Europe a la Carte’s recent advice to get some decent flags erected at the A1 Border crossing layby. The new flags with the visible St George’s Cross The previous flags were best described as tatty tea towels hanging by a thread, so I’m glad to see that there [...]
Welcome to February 2009 edition of the Europe Travel Carnival, where I’ve collated the submitted posts to inform, inspire and entertain readers who love travel in Europe. Accommodation Tamara lists her Top 5: Budget Boutique Hotels in Europe on Travel Blog – Mr & Mrs Smith Boutique & Luxury Hotels. Well that sounds very attractive, [...]
