Written by Carolann Martys (One of the runner-up entries in the City, Town or Village Writing Competition.) Standing in the centre of the picturesque town of Eu in Normandy, it is bizarre to come across a proliferation of the very Irish name of Lawrence O’Toole. This is the town where 16 years after the battle of Hastings, […]
Written by Carolyn Ward (One of two winning entries in the City, Town or Village Writing Competition, which included both fictional as well as factual articles.) The village of Castlecroft is a delightful little hamlet on the south-western corner of Wolverhampton. It is unusual in that the whole village is surrounded by a crenelated wall dating […]
Written by Kay Ellis (One of two winning entries in the City, Town or Village Writing Competition.) We have been in York approximately one minute, as long as it takes to mind the gap and cross Platform One, but I can see George’s eyes sparkling with excitement already. I could leave him on Platform One […]
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 […]
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 […]
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Tenerife and La Gomera: Far From the Madding Crowd?
Are you planning to visit Spain? If you like quiet, relaxed holidays amid magnificent scenery, then maybe Tenerife would not be top of your list. Five million tourists visit Tenerife every year, attracted by its all-year sunshine and warm, temperate climate, resulting in many potential visitors having an image of crowded beaches and rowdy nightclubs. However statistics […]