If you’re fascinated by the ancient sites of Greece and Rome, then you’ll love the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, one of the highlights of the Museuminsel or Museum Island where you’ll also find several other major museums and galleries. Although I didn’t get time to visit the others when we were there last spring, the [...]
I am hardly the first to wax poetic about the beauty of Provence, but with a region as spectacular as this one, it certainly bears repeating. My husband, young children and I took a wonderful holiday in Provence’s Luberon Valley. We based ourselves in a little mas provençal (traditional regional homes of stone) just outside [...]
The Travelodge UK Summer 2010 Sale launches on Thursday 7 January 2010 at 6am. There are 30,000 rooms available at this bargain £9 rate on selected nights at Travelodges all over the UK for stays between 2 May to 5 September 2010. Edinburgh Central Travelodge These Travelodge £9 rooms are a real steal. They’re ensuite [...]
The French often refer to continental France as L’Hexagon – obviously because of the shape of the country. Knowing how big and how geographically and culturally diverse the country really is I got to thinking about the most extreme cardinal points of continental France. Each of the four locations has something of unique interest that [...]
In 1100, a church was built in what is now the city of Helsingborg. Two hundred years later, the population had grown enough that a new church was needed. It took nearly 100 years to build it, but finally, around 1400, Saint Mary’s Church in Helsingborg was completed. Today, Sancta Maria kyrka still stands in [...]
Those who are looking for a powerful experience, those looking to find closure or those seeking an understanding about the Holocaust should take the opportunity to visit one of the concentration camps still standing in Europe today. Sachsenhausen by robertpaulyoung While an experience visiting a concentration might be heavily emotional, it allows many people the [...]
In this guest post our son Simon describes the current Glasgow music scene and why the city’s a mecca for music lovers. Simon Bryan is a DJ in the Glasgow area and presents the Beat Beneath show on Subcity Radio, his email address is simon (at) subcity.org. Simon’s gig at the Lite Club by subcityphotos [...]
Happy New Year folks! It’s been five days since the New Year festivities but I find myself unable to shake off the holiday stupor. So today I cracked my fingers, pulled out the camera and ran through photos from our New Year celebrations at London’s London Eye. I thought I’d share these with you. A [...]
Update 30 January 2010: The competition is now closed. The winner is Carrie-Ann, who correctly answered that the location of my Twitter background photo was Brussels. There were over 30 competition entries with some very good answers to the tiebreaker question “What most appeals to you about visiting Belfast?” Here is Carrie-Ann’s winning response: Belfast [...]
Several members of my family are keen war historians and when I told them I was going to pop into Belgium during a trip to Luxembourg, they told me that it was an absolute must that I looked into Bastogne. It was a name slightly familiar to me from high school history lessons, but I [...]
