This guest post describes a short visit to Nowogrodek in Belarus made by Andy Jarosz, a writer and the author of 501 Places, a travel blog with stories from his travels around the world. “Belarus may not be on the top of most people’s holiday lists. The need for a visa and its reputation as [...]
Balti is a style of cooking and serving the food in a thin pressed steel bowl. I only discovered that Balti was created by the local Kashmiri/Pakistani community in Birmingham in the mid 1970s during my brief visit to The Balti Triangle on the Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour. There are around twelve restaurants in [...]
I visited Back to Backs, a reconstruction of the domestic and working lives of four families in a block of terraced back to back houses on the Birmingham stop of the Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour. There are houses/working premises from different periods, illustrating life from the 1840s, the 1870s, the 1930s and a tailors [...]
I stayed for 2 nights at the Abode Hotel Manchester during the Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour. The former 18th century textile building is located a couple of minutes walk from Manchester’s main rail station, Piccadilly. Abode Hotel Manchester courtesy of abodehotels.co.uk The hotel stairwell is beautiful, with tiled walls and some stained glass windows. [...]
I arranged to meet up with blogger Susie Stubbs (AKA @travelsavecbaba on Twitter) author of Travels with my Baby for lunch at the Cup in the Northern Quarter of Manchester during the Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour. It was while I was waiting for Suzy that I met Manchester poet Carol Batton, also a fan [...]
I met Manchester poet Carol Batton at Cup, a cafe in the city’s Northern Quarter, whilst I was waiting to meet Susie Stubbs, winner of Manchester Blog of the Year and author of Travels with my Baby. I started chatting with Carol, who was sitting at the table next to me. Carol told me that [...]
Our son Gary travelled to Slovenia to attend Metal Camp in July 2009, so I managed to twist his arm to write a post about it for the Europe a la Carte Blog. “Every year at the start of July, metal fans from all over Europe descend upon Tolmin, a town in the small country [...]
Today’s guest post is by Cristina Dima a travel writer, who fell in love with Europe at about the same time she was born. Currently she cannot decide which country she likes best: Greece, Hungary, Austria or Romania. In this post she tells us why she’s smitten by Vienna. “Europe is filled with beautiful cities [...]
Kahuna was one of the Newquay restaurants that was recommended to me by several different people for my Newquay stop on Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour. It’s situated on Tolcarne Beach close to the town centre. Unfortunately it was raining during my visit so I wasn’t able to sit out on the terrace and fully [...]
Everyone should be sure to spend some time in Prague – though if you do, beat the crowds and use Europe a la Carte’s tips to see Prague in a different light. But when in the Czech Republic, I prefer to get out and see the countryside. One of my favourite places? Brno – [...]
