Archive for the 'Denmark' Category
In this guest post the Denmark.net Denmark Guide gives five ideas on places where you can experience a Danish style Christmas.
Christmas at Tivoli Gardens
If you are planning to visit Denmark this Christmas, the festivities provide a great flair to the dark and long evenings in the Northern hemisphere. Prefer hot wine at one of the [...]
November 30th, 2009 | Posted in Denmark, Guest post | No Comments
The Danish people are some of the nicest in Europe, and Copenhagen is one of Europe’s nicest capital cities. Why not make a summer city break? With fantastic weather (sometimes hot by UK standards) and long days/short nights, it’s perfect weekend. Here’s a few of my Copenhagen favourites.
Start the day with breakfast in Christianshavn. A [...]
August 28th, 2009 | Posted in Denmark | 6 Comments
Just to change things up a bit here at Europe a La Carte, I thought I’d share with you some videos of some of my favourite European hot spots. Lonely Planet has done some very professional overviews of some fantastic spots and they’re a great tease – once you’ve watched you’ll definitely want to [...]
May 1st, 2009 | Posted in Denmark, Holland, Poland, Videos Europe travel | 1 Comment
In this guest post Jared Salter, founder of Joobili.com, a new travel inspiration website, describes the Ice World Golf Championship to be held in Greenland from March 19 – 24 2009.
“The par 5 fairway bends around an iceberg, the rough is a 2cm layer of frozen ice, and sand traps are replaced by seal [...]
March 10th, 2009 | Posted in Denmark, Guest post | 9 Comments
If you’d like to try out a harbourside boutique hotel, soak up some opera and culture, explore an open air museum of historic buildings, and see a little mermaid, all at someone else’s expense then read on.
Visit Denmark, Denmark’s official tourism website, is looking for guests to be part of the Guinea Pig Guest Programme. [...]
February 26th, 2009 | Posted in Competitions, Cycling, Denmark, Europe travel news, Short breaks | 4 Comments
Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, so instead of the list of ideas about romantic getaways across the continent, how about instead a list of Valentine’s day traditions across Europe? Perhaps one of these will inspire a new travel destination for you in 2009. Here we go:
Slovenia
They say that in Slovenia this is the day [...]
February 13th, 2009 | Posted in Culture, Denmark, France, Romania, Scotland, Slovenia | 2 Comments
I hope Edinburgh has a large trophy cabinet for all the awards it keeps winning. After recently reporting that Edinburgh was announced the best UK city in the Guardian Travel awards, we can now report the city has now been honoured by Ethisphere as one of the 20 cities of 2020.
Edinburgh, view from Calton Hill [...]
November 7th, 2008 | Posted in Denmark, England, Environment, Europe travel news, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Scotland | No Comments
Following my post earlier today about Ryanair’s rescue fare for passengers stranded by the collapse of Sterling Airlines, I received an email from DFDS Seaways with details of the free travel available for stranded Sterling passengers on their Harwich to Esbjerg ferry.
DFDS Seaways are offering free transport to Sterling Airways passengers after the airline [...]
October 29th, 2008 | Posted in Air travel, Denmark, Destination guides, Europe travel news, Ferries | 2 Comments
According a to a survey by Travelcare, Prague is the cheapest destination for a short break in Europe. The cost of £204 was based on costs such as a stay at a four star hotel, a three course meal, museum entry fee etc. London came third at a cost of £267 with Paris [...]
April 3rd, 2007 | Posted in Accommodation, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Ireland, Italy, Short breaks | No Comments