I spent a few hours in Brecon Beacons National Park during the Cardiff leg of the Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour. We had lunch at the Visitor Centre Tearoom and even mananged to sit outside to eat (quite a feat this so called Summer). I had the chicken pie with potatoes, carrots and red cabbage, [...]
The little town of Koprivnica is just an hour’s drive from the Croatian capital, Zagreb. While it is better known as the centre of Croatian naïve art, it is also home to a quirky open air bicycle museum. Koprivnica prides itself as a cyclist’s town; I saw a number of cycles parked lazily near cafes, [...]
Looking for a new theme to your next holiday? Want to know more about eco-tourism or environmentally-friendly tourism? Then maybe you should pick up Frommer’s latest guide, 500 Places to See Before They Disappear. Disappearing into the light…. Copyright Andrew Hayes The first time I saw this title, I was overwhelmed with [...]
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 [...]
There’s been a big improvement in Dysart in Fife since my last visit there in September 2007. The ugly buildings across from the Tolbooth at Dysart Cross have been demolished and an attractive mural portraying the local area has been painted along the the exterior fence of the site. What an improvement, in fact I [...]
Update 30 August 2010 – I wanted to compare the peacock butterfly photos taken recently with the Sony NEX-5 camera that I’m testing. It’s not a direct comparison as the background, the garden fence, is different in the earlier photos. Original Post – I’ve read recently that the UK butterfly population is in decline due [...]
The inaugural World Travel Green Awards will be held in Slovakia on 16 October 2008 in tandem with the Europe Travel Awards. The event will take place at Aqua City which bills itself as the ” the World’s leading green resort”. There are ten categories such as green resort (surely the host Aqua City must [...]
The 4th annual Border Green Festival will be taking place at the Five Arches playing fields in Berwick upon Tweed in North Northumberland on Sunday 29 June 2008.. There will be a free bus service from the railway station to the venue. Border Green Festival 2007 with Royal Border Bridge in background There will a [...]
Eurostar has been voted the best rail network in the world in the 2007 World Travel Awards. Paris and Brussels can now be reached in 2 hours from the new St Pancras terminal in London. St Pan Station by chakchouka Eurostar’s Tread Lightly campaign has offered carbon neutral journeys at no additional cost to passengers [...]
It seems that my suspicions earlier this year about travellers claiming they wanted to be greener and taking on action of this front are all too true. According to a recent opinion poll only 7% of UK holidaymakers are willing to pay to offset the environmental effects of their trip. Could part of the reason [...]
