One of the added bonuses of a Chamonix Season Lift Pass, is the chance to discover three other winter resorts in Haute-Savoie, so decided I’d like to explore Evasion Mont Blanc, a series of linked resorts including St Gervais, Megeve, Combloux and La Giettaz. In all 445 km of pistes. [...]
A photo essay of the Udal Peninsula on North Uist, Western Isles, Scotland.
There are a lot of widely held views built on hearsay and misinformation. The deeper I look, the more complicated the story seems to get. One of my aims is to educate myself on travel environmental issues. Then to share my findings on this site and hopefully start a discussion [...]
Street art Last week I visited the Ixelles Museum here in Brussels before their exhibition on Street Art closed and is replaced by a Dubuffet exhibition. Bonom was featured heavily, with insights into how he plans his pieces. The photo above shows a spider on a concrete building by Chapelle [...]
Why is it so many people aspire to fly in First Class, sleep in Five Star hotels (or even Seven Star hotels) and eat in Michelin Three Star restaurants? Don’t they know that it is very poor value for money? That you can sleep just as well in a £29 [...]
The Llangollen canal between Llantysilio and Chirk is the only UNESCO World Heritage Site in the United Kingdom than spans two countries. The listed section covers a distance of 18 kilometres and includes two aqueducts spanning deep valleys, as well as two tunnels. It was built between 1793 and 1808 [...]
There are many music festivals in Belgium from big free festivals to the charged ones such as Rock Werchter, Europe’s best music festival.
The main story for Holy Island can be found as “On the trail of a Welsh Asterix” on VisitBritain’s Superblog. But here is a photo essay of some of the sights from the post and further afield on Anglesey.
Leaving the river Reuss I headed into the into the streets of the old town. I’ll just let the photos tell the story. It’s a photo essay after all. If you want to read up about Lucerne. Look up Wikipedia or Wikitravel. If you have written a blog post on [...]
Another from the ‘Around Europe with a camera’ series On the second day of walking, we set off from Château Beusdael and headed up to the forest covered hill in front of the Château entrance. Then we headed East along the ridge, before crossing some fields and dropping into a [...]
This post is part of my ‘Around Europe with a Camera’ series: The Fourons (French) or Voeron (Dutch), is the area on the Belgian / Dutch border between Liege in Belgium, Maastricht in the Netherlands and Aachen in Germany. It is a Flemish region of Belgium with common facilities for [...]
I’m very conscious of the fact that Earth Day is misused for all sorts of purposes, from selling cheap flights to “eco-resorts”, to celebrities greening their image for a day. I gave some thought to how I would celebrate Earth Day. In the end I decided to share “La Belle [...]
This post appears on the Visit Britain Super Blog: The Seven Wonders of Wales
Is posted on the VisitBritain superbog. To read it, click on the link below: Europe’s leading eco-centre: Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales Here is another photo of the site not included in the post, part of the new WISE univeristy building:
The theme for today’s #FriFotos on Twitter is ‘Monuments’. So here are some of my photos with the story behind them. Stonehenge is the oldest of my monuments for today. Certainly enigmatic, the blue stones originated in the Pembrokeshire, Wales. Massively popular with visitors to the UK. I would advise [...]
This timely exclusive for the TravelCrunch site, is the latest development in cruise ships. It ties in nicely with today’s #FriFotos theme of Transportation, (#FriFotos is where Twitter members share photos on a given theme). Now, I know a lot of you will say that this is a betrayal of [...]
One of the added bonuses of a Chamonix Season Lift Pass, is the chance to discover three other winter resorts in Haute-Savoie, so decided I’d like to explore Evasion Mont Blanc, a series of linked resorts including St Gervais, Megeve, Combloux and La Giettaz. In all 445 km of pistes. [...]A photo essay of the Udal Peninsula on North Uist, Western Isles, Scotland.
While walking the streets of Brussels, I am often aware that I am following in the footsteps of Georges Rémi, better known as Hergé, creator of Tintin. From where I type this article, I can see both of the schools he attended in his youth. He left his mark in the form [...]
It is the overhead snippets of conversation, that tells me that Winter Wonders or Plaisirs d’Hiver in French, is popular with visitors. “I was like…” the repeated “like” in twenty something females’ conversations. The oral version of a Facebook Wall. Or “I am lucky, as I can catch a train [...]
The theme for the photo sharing day on Twitter on Friday 18 November 2011 was Flags. If you look at my Twitter profile you will see that I tend to spend time between three locations. In this piece, I will include photos, including flags from each of these places. Wales [...]There are a lot of widely held views built on hearsay and misinformation. The deeper I look, the more complicated the story seems to get. One of my aims is to educate myself on travel environmental issues. Then to share my findings on this site and hopefully start a discussion [...]
#FriFotos is the weekly photo sharing day on Twitter. On Friday November 11, the theme is “Fall”, but as is usual, it is open to interpretation. Fall is the term used for Autumn in North America. However, the eleventh of November is Armistice Day and a Public Holiday in much [...]
The abbey of Val-Dieu was founded in 1216 by Cistercian monks. Surviving wars, floods and moral crises, it was temporarily dissolved by the French Revolution. Then in 1844 with the aid of the church and the last surviving monk, it was re-established and flourished again for another 150 years. The [...]
Have you ever stood on a railway station concourse and stared longingly at destinations on the Departures Board that were not printed on your tickets? Have you ever found yourself on the road somewhere and found that the you were travelling along one of the world’s more famous long distance [...]Street art Last week I visited the Ixelles Museum here in Brussels before their exhibition on Street Art closed and is replaced by a Dubuffet exhibition. Bonom was featured heavily, with insights into how he plans his pieces. The photo above shows a spider on a concrete building by Chapelle [...]
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