Europe a la Carte took to the skies visiting five cities and towns across England, Northern Ireland and Wales between 22 July – 1 August 2009. The Europe a la Carte UK Summer 09 Blogging Tour was powered by bmibaby, who provided my flights from Edinburgh to Birmingham, Newquay, Manchester, Belfast and Cardiff. I asked [...]

We visited Chillies West End in Woodlands Road in Glasgow for lunch on a week day at the beginning of July 2009. The restaurant chefs Jansey and Saumitra won the BBC Good Food Scotland award for the best Asian dining chefs in 2008/2009. Chillies West End, Glasgow The restaurant is billed as a contemporary Indian [...]

In this guest post Rajul Chande of London Hotels Insight answers the question “Is it possible to find a high quality hotel in London for under £100 a night?” with three emphatic yeses. It’s hard to find what I’d call “genuine value” in London hotels. This is because the city has year-round demand and a [...]

I burst out laughing when I entered the ladies toilet at Musselburgh Services, just outside Edinburgh, last week and saw this notice stuck on one of the cubicle doors. Regular readers of the blog will know that I have a bit of a bee in my bonnet about the lack of provision of public toilets [...]

In this guest post, Margaret Doherty describes the private passions of London’s great collectors, ranging from weird and wonderful to classical and modern. Entry is free of charge at all the collections. The Wellcome Collection Prosethic by mr hyde Henry Wellcome arrived from America in 1880 and with old college friend and fellow pharmaceutical salesman [...]

I stayed at the Edinburgh West End Travelodge for 2 nights, 22 – 24 June 2009. I paid £9 per room per night for a family room, booked 5 months in advance during a £9 Sale. Travelodge bought this former four star hotel a couple of years ago and have carried out a massive refurbishment, [...]

When Bath was in it’s heyday on the 1800s, fashionable society gathered in the Assembly rooms of Bath to dance, drink tea and socialise and be immortalised in the novels of Jane Austen. You can find the Assembly rooms on the north side of Bath, near the Royal Crescent and The Circus, where you can [...]

Europe a la Carte is in 6th position in the Cision Top 10 UK Travel Blogs. by indigo prime Cision provides media intelligence and employed a mix of site traffic, search and social measurements to compile the list of what it describes as the most read, most discussed and most influential UK travel blogs.

Travelodge UK launch their £9 room Winter Sale at 06.00 on Thursday 18 June 2009. The £9 rooms are avaiable for stays between 1 November 2009 and 31 January 2010. You need to pay upfront for the rooms and there are no refunds. This has to be one of the best accommodation deals in the [...]

One interesting way to get under the skin of a city is to use as your guide a famous person who lived there and visit the places they lived and worked. In Barcelona, for instance you’re bound to go on a little Gaudi tour. But when you visit my home town of Bristol, you might [...]