I recently had the pleasure of visiting County Durham to join in the festivities for UK Peace and Tranquility Week. After four days of making new friends, seeing some of the best local attractions, and enjoying what I must say was one of the finest events I have seen in a long time, I’m happy [...]
For many Rome is about the Colisseum, the Trevi fountain, the gelato and the neighbourhood Trattoria. For others it’s the heart of Christianity, the home of the the Catholic church and El Papa himself. As a good Catholic girl, the religious experience added another dimension to my visit to Rome last year, with my parents [...]
Do you choose your holiday hotel very carefully as you may spend around 12 hours a day in your hotel? If you think about it logically you probably spend eight hours in bed, one hour having showers, doing hair, make up etc and one hour eating breakfast. So already that’s a total of 10 hours [...]
I like to go exploring when I travel. Even when I end up in a big city where there is plenty to see, there tends to be something to find on a backstreet. Plus, I love history. Which is how I found myself hiking through Vienna trying to find the Birgitta Chapel. I knew nothing [...]
The Pitlochry Autumn Festival runs from 16 October to 1 November 2009. One of the main events is the Enchanted Forest lights show held in Faskally Wood. It’s a wonderful spectacle which I’ll be attending this year. Borealis, by piglicker The other Festival events include a Haloween Marquee where you can play games such as [...]
If you like to find out about European travel on Twitter, follow me, @karenbryan on Twitter. You’ll find links to the latest posts from the Europe a la Carte Blog.which I edit. I’ll also be retweeting links to other great travel sites/blogs and engaging with travel writers/bloggers from around the globe. You can share in [...]
Having a hobby can be a great way of deciding on a holiday destination. I used to travel a lot with a friend who had a slightly unusual sporting hobby – he was a kendo player, having taken up the martial art while he lived in Japan. Because of him, and a Czech national tournament [...]
Football is a national passion in Croatia. The local league is closely and passionately followed, and the national team usually graces the front pages of the newspapers (recently headlines have been scorching, given the possible failure of the national team to qualify for the coming world cup). Whatever little space football can spare is shared [...]
The Ryanair £1 ticket promotion is back for bookings until 17 September. And yes the £1 tickets really do exist, I’ve just booked a £2 return ticket from Edinburgh to Pisa for travel in November. There are £1 flights up for grabs for the period 1 October – 10 December 2009 with travel black out [...]
I spent the afternoon at the 2009 Berwick Food Festival and local Heritage Open Day. The Barracks courtyard was full of local producers selling all sorts of food and drink from Holy Island mussels to Scottish cider. A favourite with the kids was the “Green Machine” a bicycle whose pedal power liquidised your fruit smoothie, [...]
