Salzburg is one of these holiday destinations you can visit in two ways: the hard way or the soft way. The hard way involves sensible shoes, a lot of leg work and quite a good level of fitness to conquer Salzburg’s famous landmark, the Festung Hohensalzburg, perched high up on the Festungsberg. You can if [...]
Vienna has to be one of Europe’s best walking cities – and thank goodness for that, since it allows visitors to work up an appetite before sampling the city’s mouth-watering specialities. For me, no visit to Vienna is complete without eating Wienerschnitzl – breaded veal cutlet- at Figlmüller. Figlmüller has been serving up Wienerschnitzel in [...]
The Europe a la Carte Podcast 16 November 2010 summaries the recent blog posts listed below. All Airports Should Have Drinking Water Fountains – please help me compile a listing of the locations of European airport water drinking fountains. 10 of the Best Hotels in Palma de Mallorca – Hotels for all budgets which receive [...]
When I was in Copenhagen in early November 2010 I went on a canal cruise, the one hour DFDS Guided Tour courtesy of Visit Copenhagen. It was a sunny but cold morning but I was prepared for that with my double trousers, thick fleece and hat. With all my warm garb, I was able to [...]
On the 29th October 2010 Edinburgh Airport started charging £1 for passenger drop offs close to the terminal building. Entrance to the new £1 drop off facility at Edinburgh Airport There is a new free drop off facility at the long term car park with a free shuttle bus running every 10 minutes to the [...]
If you’re headed for the Spanish island of Mallorca, you might be looking at a resort stay outside the city, but don’t discount staying in a hotel in Palma de Mallorca, the island’s capital, as a base for your holiday. With a population of around half a million, it’s certainly not an overwhelming city and [...]
I’m getting fed up of the bottled water rip-off at most European airports. At present you can only can take containers with a maximum of 100ml through security which leaves you with little choice but to buy bottled water, often costing around £2 for a 500 ml bottle, in an airport shop. Sian has already [...]
For many years, Germany has put forth legislation and come down hard on anything related to the Nazi regime. Concentration camps, like Dachau, serve as reminders of the horrors of the Nazi regime. Germany has banned neo-Nazi groups. Denying the holocaust is a crime. So while it seems a bit far-fetched and extreme to say [...]
We stayed at the Ca’l Bisbe Hotel in Soller for the first three nights of our inntravel Mallorca walking holiday. Although I had asked for explicit directions on how to reach the hotel’s car park, which lies a good 300 metres from the hotel itself, we still couldn’t find the car park due to a [...]
We stayed at the Ca’s Curial agroturismo finca in Soller, Mallorca for 3 nights during our inntravel Mallorca walking holiday. The finca is situated in a citrus grove, around a 10 minute walk from the village centre. There’s ample parking in the shade. We had a double room on the ground floor. The room was [...]
