If ever you chance to visit Buenos Aires or Montevideo, spare some time to travel from these modern, bustling cities to a small town nearby where time has stood still – Colonia del Sacramento. I was visiting Buenos Aires on a Round The World trips, and had sampled the usual tourist attractions, from La Boca Juniors football stadium to a Tango […]
Surprise, Surprise! by Paola Fornari I tried not to speculate where my surprise sixtieth birthday destination would be, but occasionally ideas drifted into my head. In our three years living in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, we had travelled to most places that were a single flight away. So this would be two flights. We […]
Millions of people every year see the distinctive shape of Lindisfarne Castle as they speed by on the main railway line between London and Edinburgh, or drive along the parallel A1 trunk road. But few stop to check out the rich heritage of Lindisfarne island; maybe they are put off by the tide-dependent access to the island. Lindisfarne off […]
How does a hotel-based holiday in Sri Lanka with Saga Holidays compare with an independently organised holiday? I’ve researched an eight day ‘All Inclusive’ stay at the Club Palm Bay Hotel in Marawila, Sri Lanka, as featured in the Saga Holidays 2014 brochure. This quiet ‘luxury’ beach hotel is situated on the NW Coast about 25 miles […]
I’d never visited the Southwest of the USA. How could I call myself a seasoned traveller, when San Francisco was nothing more to me than a pop-song, Los Angeles a crime series, the Grand Canyon a world wonder from my school-books and Las Vegas a backdrop for Elvis and Sinatra? Maybe allowing just two weeks was […]
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Northern Lights
by Janet Rogers (A runner-up entry in the inaugural Travel Writing Competition) He promised me a trip to see the Northern Lights. But it didn’t turn out quite as I expected. I ventured outside as darkness fell and I did see great swathes of blue and green light swirling above. There were also rows of purple […]