STE’s Holiday Editor, Tony Taylor, reports on his experiences on a three day short break in Singapore. Since my last visit to Singapore over ten years ago, there has been much reclamation of land from the sea, which has allowed developments like the Gardens by the Bay and the famous Marina Bay Sands Hotel. I was […]
Written by Maddie Grigg (A Runner-up entry in the Travel for Seniors Writing Competition.) Miraflores, the upmarket district of Lima, and the city is beginning to beat. It’s cooler now, after the humidity of the day. The constant fog that grips the capital of Peru at this time of year appears to dissipate. We make […]
STE’s Holiday Editor, Tony Taylor, reports on his experiences on a 14 day Saga Holidays tour of Myanmar. Guest author, Charles Askew, reported on a similar tour two years previously; this article provides a different viewpoint. We were collected from our home and driven to Heathrow in a shared taxi, a service always included for Saga […]
Written by Carolyn Ward (A Runner-up entry in the Travel for Seniors Writing Competition, which included fictional as well as factual articles.) The Lofton Home for the Elderly in Tunbridge Wells was a dank, grey building, with small dirty windows and a hard-scrabble garden. The residents were usually occupied with watching Jeremy Kyle or playing […]
The Rhône-Alpes region of France has impressive scenery stretching from wide river valleys to lakes and high mountain peaks. It has many fine cities and towns, offering a wide range of outstanding historic buildings, riverside walks, attractive parks and museums. My tour of the region in a cold but dry week in February commenced in […]
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Dortmund Short Break – Two Botanic Gardens and a Football Stadium
Dortmund does not immediately spring to mind as a short break destination. The largest city in the Ruhr industrial area lacks an attractive Altstadt (old town) and has no river passing through it, both major tourist features in many German cities like Frankfurt and Nurnberg. But when I tell you that Dortmund is now known as the ‘green metropolis’, with almost half its municipal […]