Paul Harris of SeeWales.com spoke to me about his company’s sightseeing tours while we were at the Brecon Beacons National Park Visitor Centre. During the Cardiff leg of the Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour, I went on the SeeWales Mines, Mountains and a Single Malt Whisky day tour. Our first port of call was the [...]

During the Cardiff leg of the Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour, I spoke to Stephen Davies, MD of the Penderyn Welsh Whisky Distillery. Penderyn is the only whisky distillery in Wales and one of the smallest in the world, producing one cask of single malt whisky a day. The Distillery opened in 2004 and is [...]

Tour guide Chris Norwoord (AKA @norwoordchris on Twitter) put together a really interesting “Manchester off the Beaten Track” walking tour for me on the Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour. We set off from my hotel, the Manchester Abode. The first stop was to look at the Brownsfield Mill chimney, the oldest factory chimney in Manchester [...]

Chris Norwoord is a Manchester tour guide who offers a wide variety of specialist guided walks in Greater Manchester as well as introductory walks covering the main sites in the City Centre. He designs bespoke walks for citizens and visitors with particular interests. The most commonly requested subject for a walk is Radical Manchester. You [...]

I arranged to meet up with blogger Susie Stubbs (AKA @travelsavecbaba on Twitter) author of Travels with my Baby for lunch at the Cup in the Northern Quarter of Manchester during the Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour. It was while I was waiting for Suzy that I met Manchester poet Carol Batton, also a fan [...]

I met Manchester poet Carol Batton at Cup, a cafe in the city’s Northern Quarter, whilst I was waiting to meet Susie Stubbs, winner of Manchester Blog of the Year and author of Travels with my Baby. I started chatting with Carol, who was sitting at the table next to me. Carol told me that [...]

Kahuna was one of the Newquay restaurants that was recommended to me by several different people for my Newquay stop on Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour. It’s situated on Tolcarne Beach close to the town centre. Unfortunately it was raining during my visit so I wasn’t able to sit out on the terrace and fully [...]

When I was in Newquay on the Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour, I met up with Ben Riding of Surfing is Therapy. Ben has been head beach lifeguard in Cornwall and Australia and has many years of surf coaching experience running surf camps in France and Morocco. Now along with Gemma Harris he runs Surfing [...]

I came across The Chocolate Cafe on Twitter @welovechocolate when doing research for the Manchester stop on my Summer 09 UK Blogging Tour. At present there are two Chocolate Cafes one in Ramsbottom and the other in Deansgate in Manchester. I was intrigued when I read about the chocolate pizzas so asked co-founder Paul Morris [...]

When I received an email from earthTV.com telling me about their service,  I thought it sounded such an amazing technological feat, that I asked them to do a guest interview for the Europe a la Carte Blog. The company founder Thomas M Hohenacker tells us about the challenges of setting up earthTV.com. 1 What is [...]