If you’ve spent any time in Wales and you’ve a story to tell, then the Visit Wales Tourism website would like to hear from you. The website is looking for articles to feature on their blog until the Wales in Words competition closes in mid August and the winner will be selected in September to [...]
Hotel overbooking is when a hotel has taken bookings for more guests than it can accommodate. They can often get away with this as there is usually a number of cancellations and no shows. However you may be the unlucky person who turns up to be told that there’s no room at the inn. Hotel [...]
One of the most beautiful spots that I visited during my trip to Istria in Croatia was the Limski Fjord, close to the town of Rovinj. It’s also know as the Limski Kanal, Lim Fjrod or the Lim Channel. Technically it’s not a fjord as the landform was not created by the movement of a [...]
The Werder Baumblütenfest, or Tree Blossom Festival, started on the 25th of April this year and will run through the fifth of May. About 35 km south west of Berlin, the official word is that the festival is a celebration of spring. But ask a local German, and they will remind you that the festival [...]
I’d read about the Istrian city of Pula on the Europe a la Carte blog in Jason Green’s post “The other side of Croatia – Pula“. Here’s my pictorial tour of Pula taken during my visit to Istria in April 2009. The Coliseum in Pula is very well preserved and pretty impressive. It’s the venue [...]
I’m a huge fan of Berlin, and since I was lucky enough to be visiting there during the 1990 reunification celebrations, the Berlin Wall has a particularly soft spot in my heart. So when I heard that they were scrubbing it clean, I was more than a little surprised (and concerned!). Image – sainz via [...]
Bath is one my favourite stops in the UK. Not only is it beautiful and full of history, it is also rich with “Englishness” that you don’t really get to see in the cosmopolitan melting-pot that is London. Given Bath’s beauty and tranquillity, it’s no wonder that the town was popular with many of the [...]
I started hosting the Europe Travel Blog Carnival on the Europe a la Carte Blog in March 2008. I wanted to create a Carnival which would be more than a rather ugly cut and paste job by adding photos and my own comments to the submissions. Carnaval de Putignana by loloieg It was pretty time [...]
I’d never been to a spa until my trip to Istria in Croatia in April 2009. This was for various reasons. I’d never felt a strong urge to be pampered, I thought that spa treatments were expensive and I wasn’t sure how I felt about a stranger massaging my body. However when I was offered [...]
I’d like to introduce you to five fellow travel bloggers who were my companions on the travel bloggers press trip to Istria in Croatia from 20 – 24 April 2009. Laura Motta of Le Blog Laura. Ola Fagbohun of the DiverseTravellog.com. Hester Borm of Hesterr.nl. Chris Cook of Noambit.com. Kerrin Rousset of MyKugelhopf.ch. I hope [...]
