Mention Austria as a tourist destination and Vienna, Salzburg and Innsbruck immediately come to mind, along with the Tyrol for winter sports enthusiasts. However Linz, Austria’s third largest city, doesn’t seem to feature prominently on the tourist map except as a break for Danube cruises, and often then only as a jumping off point for […]
Please check out our new free-to-enter Travel and Water Writing Competition with a first prize of £100 and a closing date of December 31st, 2015. The previous City, Town or Village competition closed at midnight Thursday April 30th, 2015. See the list of Winners and Runners-up. At first glance, most of the entries are of publishable standard, and almost […]
In the fifth of a series of articles on travel photography, Senior Travel Expert Photo Editor, John Esser, gives advice on how to get great panoramic photos, illustrated with pictures from his recent road trip in the USA. The prospect of spending almost a month travelling through some of the most spectacular scenery on the […]
Maybe February was not the best time to take a short break in New York. Just a few days before I arrived, JFK Airport had been closed because of blizzard conditions, and the weather forecast was suggesting sub-zero temperatures for the whole three days of my visit! And that weather forecast turned out to be […]
STE’s Holiday Editor, Tony Taylor, reports on a tour in Mexico. In January/February we like to find somewhere warm for a holiday, and this year decided on Mexico. We had been to the west coast of Mexico about 20 years before, Puerto Vallarta – Costa del Sol for Americans! As we enjoy travelling and exploring […]
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Road Trip USA – Shooting the Sights
In the sixth of a series of articles on travel photography, Senior Travel Expert Photo Editor, John Esser, gives advice on how to get new slants on well known sights, illustrated with pictures from his recent road trip in the South of the USA, with a transit stopover in New York. Most of us will encounter […]