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 […]
Written by Ellen Evers (A highly commended runner-up entry in the Travel and Water Writing Competition.) Island of the Living Dead. Not what you might call an endearing name for Spinalonga, that eerily beautiful island fortress steeped in history that lies just off the North West coast of Crete. Greek islands in September are the […]
Written by Julie Hall (A highly commended runner-up entry in the Travel and Water Writing Competition.) From the first moment of my arrival in Bergen, Norway, I had been struck by the sheer beauty of the landscape: the rugged mountains, the network of clean rivers, and the architecture of the Old Harbour area. Add to […]
Negril on Jamaica’s western coast has sun, sand and sea in abundance, with reggae music and the ‘be happy’ reggae culture always in the background. I booked a week’s stay in February at the ClubHotel Riu Negril through Thomson (now TUI Holidays). This was the prelude to a Mayan Treasures Cruise on the Thomson Dream cruise […]
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Living the Dream on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal
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 […]