When Bath was in it’s heyday on the 1800s, fashionable society gathered in the Assembly rooms of Bath to dance, drink tea and socialise and be immortalised in the novels of Jane Austen. You can find the Assembly rooms on the north side of Bath, near the Royal Crescent and The Circus, where you can [...]
Europe a la Carte is in 6th position in the Cision Top 10 UK Travel Blogs. by indigo prime Cision provides media intelligence and employed a mix of site traffic, search and social measurements to compile the list of what it describes as the most read, most discussed and most influential UK travel blogs.
I’m happy to announce that the Europe a la Carte Blog is one of the four blogs shortlisted for Best Travel Blog in the Travelmole UK Web Awards 2009. Thank you very much for rating the blog in the online voting. Here is the shortlist: Europe a la Carte Blog 101 Holidays Make Travel Fair [...]
The word “Viking” often conjures up visions of sea-faring warriors with horned helmets. And while some of those stereotypes are true, the horned helmets are not. Even the warrior part only applied to a small percentage of the population of Sweden during the Viking age. Those who weren’t busy raiding and trading stayed in Sweden. [...]
Travelodge UK launch their £9 room Winter Sale at 06.00 on Thursday 18 June 2009. The £9 rooms are avaiable for stays between 1 November 2009 and 31 January 2010. You need to pay upfront for the rooms and there are no refunds. This has to be one of the best accommodation deals in the [...]
I’m a big fan of getting to know the local food and drink when I travel, but when I arrived in Lübeck, northern Germany, I wasn’t that thrilled to hear that it was the home of some special marzipan – that had always been a sweet I just couldn’t learn to like. Nonetheless, my friends [...]
Last year on a holiday in Wales, we stayed at a charming B&B, the Celyn Villa. At breakfast as we sat with open maps, our hostess, Pauline, offered a suggestion. She wondered if we’d be interested in tasting the best scones in Wales. Obviously we were! She suggested a tiny teahouse on the banks of [...]
In this guest post Lindsay Sydenham gives Europe a la Carte readers advice for a budget conscious trip to Berlin. “It can be difficult to travel to Europe on a modest budget. With the weakness of the Dollar against the Euro, some travelers are hesitant to take any trips in this economy. Berlin is a [...]
We’ve briefly discussed before the merits (or lack thereof) of a trip to Glasgow back in October when 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. In my opinion, it will never top Edinburgh, where I call home, but [...]
One interesting way to get under the skin of a city is to use as your guide a famous person who lived there and visit the places they lived and worked. In Barcelona, for instance you’re bound to go on a little Gaudi tour. But when you visit my home town of Bristol, you might [...]
