Yorkshire, England’s largest county, is a great place to visit if you are a heritage fan with both English Heritage and the National Trust having a wide range of sites. The many ruined abbeys around the county are testament to its rich agricultural land which proved attractive to monastic communities. Castles are also well represented […]
Written by Rosemary Gemmell (A highly commended runner-up entry in the Travel and Water Writing Competition.) Traversing the Panama Canal on one of the largest cruise ships to make the journey, we felt a slight frisson of apprehension as we entered the narrow passage. Was it really wide enough to accommodate us and allow us […]
Written by Julie Noble (A highly commended runner-up entry in the Travel and Water Writing Competition.) The week before we go on the boat, roads all round England are gridlocked and people wait for days to enter the Channel tunnel and escape that way. When the radio features canals, we dream of forthcoming peace while […]
STE’s Holiday Editor, Tony Taylor, reports on his experiences driving a hire car around Mallorca. (We strongly recommend you take out Care Hire Excess Insurance with CarHireExcess.com if hiring a car in Europe. Click here for more information.) My wife and I had not been to Mallorca for 25 years. We had young children at […]
Written by Diane Inglis (A highly commended runner-up entry in the Travel and Water Writing Competition.) As one of the growing number of older people taking to the lakes and rivers of Britain for a swim, I jumped at the chance to join an open water swimming holiday in Slovenia. After one of our regular […]
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Stockfish and Chips Anyone? Journey up the Norwegian Coast
Written by Jane Critchley (A highly commended runner-up entry in the Travel and Water Writing Competition.) My first lasting impression of Norway featured enormous, orange flowering jellyfish in Stavanger harbour. My second was MS Lofoten. Now the oldest of the Hurtigruten fleet, except at the time, 1968, it was pretty young, maybe only four years […]