We stayed at the 4 star Soreda Hotel in Qawra on our Malta trip in May 2011. We didn’t have great expectations of the Soreda Hotel, as it cost £18 per person per night on half board, booked through sunshine.co.uk and the guest reviews were mixed, many saying it was more like a 3 star [...]
It’s Rome Week on Europe a la Carte from 30 May to 5 June 2011. It’s the Italian capital of Rome in the spotlight. You’ll find lots of ideas for things to do in Rome on Europe a la Carte. The Colosseum in Rome by melenama On the Europe a la Carte Blog Read the [...]
Wednesday 25 May 2011 We’re hoping to fly back from Malta to Edinburgh with Ryanair tomorrow, 26 May 2011. Our original return flight from our trip to Malta yesterday, Tuesday 24 May 2011, was cancelled, due to ash cloud over northern Britain. I managed to get online early and re-book on the next available Edinburgh [...]
When I was in Vienna in May 2011, Andreas Susana, editor of Notes of a Traveler and tweeting as @Travelwriticus very kindly came up from his home town of Graz to give me a guided walking tour of Vienna. Here are the best of my Vienna photos. St Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna Vienna is renowned for [...]
I only visited the city of Eisenstadt in Burgenland in eastern Austria because of a lost in translation moment. I’d enquired at the reception desk of my hotel, St Martins Therme & Lodge, about the best driving route to the town of Rust, on the western shore of Lake Neusdield. The receptionist told me that [...]
I stayed for two nights at the 5 star Ring Hotel in Vienna in May 2011, on a complimentary basis. The hotel is in a central location on the ring road that encircles the old town, so very handy for sightseeing on foot. Exterior of Ring Hotel Vienna I thought that the lobby of the [...]
My visit to the town of Rust was one of the highlights of my trip to Burgenland in eastern Austria in May 2011. As soon as I got out of my car I spotted several storks’ nests on the the chimneys. Spot the stork’s nest on the chimney There was a stork information tile board [...]
I stayed at the St Martins Therme & Lodge in Burgenland, eastern Austria for two nights in May 2011, as a guest of the Austrian National Tourist Office UK. St Martins Therme & Lodge Just before the Lodge entrance there’s a pen housing two very curious goats who enjoy being patted. One of the friendly [...]
Scotland is so beautiful in Spring. In early May we drove through the Scottish Borders up to Perthshire in central Scotland. Instead of driving the main route up the A1 from Berwick upon Tweed to Edinburgh, we took the scenic country road through the Lammermuir Hills. River Whiteadder in the Scottish Borders We stopped at [...]
The English city of Plymouth, on the south coast of Devon, stands tall in Britain’s maritime history, being the home to Sir Francis Drake and the place where Captain James Cook set off from when he discovered my homeland, Australia! But Plymouth is not only an interesting place for travellers interested in ships and exploration, [...]
