Threave Garden is just outside the town of Castle Douglas in the Dumfries and Galloway region in the south west of Scotland. We visited in mid April as the daffodils were just past their peak and the rhodedendrons were starting to bloom. Bank of daffodils next to Threave House I really liked the slate water [...]

Sibenik lies on the Adriatic coast of Dalmatia in Croatia between Zadar to the north and Split to the south. I really liked Sibenik and thought that the town was very Italianesque especially around the main square. Sibenik is best known for the St James cathedral. The Gradska Vijecnica Restaurant, in the loggia of the [...]

The South Tynedale Railway runs from Alston to Kirkhaugh in Cumbria through the beautiful South Tyne valley. Alston lies around thiry miles south west of Newcastle upon Tyne. The trains are operated by volunteers. There’s a free car park at Alston station with toilets and a cafe but these facilties are only open on days [...]

Bremen, Germany, is a quaint little town just a couple of hours from the city of Hamburg. Bremen has become a hot spot lately with the continued expansion of Ryanair, who is offering frequent air service to the Bremen’s small airport from several cities, including Edinburgh and Manchester. After a short 10 minute tram ride [...]

One of the highlights of my visit to Croatia in April 2009 was the Krka National Park with its amazing waterfalls. We took the boat from Skradin to reach the National Park and then walked up the path and raised wooden walkways across the small waterfalls and streams above the large waterfalls to the Lozovac [...]

You may wonder why you should disturb your holiday enjoyment with thoughts of the Holocaust – that dark episode of European history which saw the systematic murder of millions of Jews. After all, you’re in Berlin, the party capital, known for its nightlife and culture. But I think that to get under the skin of [...]

Finally. The long-awaited spring has come to Stockholm. The sun has been shining. The ice has melted away. The flowers are showing themselves. Stockholm is in the throes of spring. Aside from the natural signs of spring, there are a few man-made signs here in Stockholm. Like the throngs of people sitting along the water [...]

If you’re on a driving trip near Vienna or around the Czech and Slovak borders, I’ve got a great detour to recommend: the WWF Stork Sanctuary at Marchegg, Austria, about half an hour north-west of Bratislava. I stopped there on the advice of a friend a few years ago, without realising it’s a World Wide [...]

Croatia is a well known tourist destination today, and at its forefront is the small coastal town of Opatija, on the Istrian peninsular. This sea-side resort town is considered to be the first of Croatia’s major tourist hotspots. Tourism first came to the town in the 1800s when a rich merchant, Hignio Scarpa, and his [...]

FON is a wifi communty where members share part of their home wifi with other members, in exchange for the use of the home wifi of the other 300,000 global members. Your home broadband is split into a secure private access and public FON part. I started doing research into availability and cost of wifi [...]