Once a year the peace and calm of Dutch life explodes in a shower of fireworks to mark the end of the Old Year and then follows up with a nice refreshing dip in the North Sea to bring in the New Year…yup, here you will find a very Happy New Year that is uniquely …
Flying to the far north of Finland you will cross into the arctic circle and find yourself in the wild beauty of Lapland. Home to Santa Claus, reindeer, huskies and snow, snow, snow!! Naturally a dream holiday for children, but with snowmobiling, dog sledding, skiing and the northern lights there is also plenty for adults …
Buñol is a small village of about 10,000 people close to Valencia; its main tourist sights are a small castle and a pretty park that has outdoor concerts during the summer. Not really a tourist hotspot, but for the last wednesday of August each year the village tripples its population as 20,000 white clad party …
From our Spanish ‘base’ of Alzira (about 45 mins south of Valencia) we have had the fortune to explore a lot of the Valencia region over the past year and have seen a great many local sites (check out those blogs). Now we are getting to the point where we need to push a bit …
York is one of those perfect storms of tourism…loads of history mixed with lashings of man-made attractions to suck you in and keep you entertained for days; top it off with plenty of local and non-local food and drink to keep you sustained during your stay and what you have is Ye Olde Worlde Disneye …
For those of you lucky people that get to spend a bit more time in the Netherlands and once you have done all the main sites, had a picture in clogs, eaten lots of cheese and smoked through the novelty of the coffee shops, then you are ready to explore some of the more …
We started our mini Northern Ireland tour in Belfast, a neat compact city that you can pretty much divide into 3 main areas (for the tourist)…the very British Victorian central city – right up to the people lounging on the grass in the sun outside the Belfast City central hall; The Queens University area, where …
If you visit in Valencia around the middle of March, then you will find yourself in one of the most visually and audibly stunning festivals that Europe has to offer. Las Fallas is a traditional event that explodes across the city from the 15th to 19th March each year and it will quite literally blow …
Whenever we get the past pictures out and see the ones from our trip to Cornwall in May 2017 then we are just stunned how beautiful this place is; I don’t just say that because I am British, but as a Brit who has left these shores many years ago and with a Filipina, who …
Kyiv, the capital of the Ukraine, famous for the delicious chicken Kyiv (and my favourite…mini kyivs), Dynamo Kyiv football team, being the largest country in Europe with the deepest metro station on the continent…but why else go there? Well, we rarely need a reason to travel and we find that most places have something special …