Portugal has a lot to offer senior travellers. It is a compact country with relatively quiet roads, perfect for a touring holiday, visiting the palaces and castles, staying at the pousadas and sampling the port wine! Visits by seniors to Portugal are best planned for Spring or Autumn, when there are off-peak rates available and […]
Frankfurt is well known as a major business centre, but when I spent two days there earlier this year, I was pleasantly surprised by the different side of the city that I found. How to get there? Well Ryanair flies from London to Frankfurt-Hahn and prices can be as low as £35 return, but this is […]
Whilst arrangements for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations were getting into full swing I spent a day visiting the Isle of Wight and Osborne House. This palace was a favourite retreat for Queen Victoria, the only other monarch to celebrate a Diamond Jubilee – back in 1897. My travel across to the Isle of Wight was care of Red Funnel Ferries, […]
Would you like to see the sights of Hungary – from its majestic capital Budapest on the Danube, to the holiday resorts on Lake Balaton, from the beautiful university city of Sopron in the north to the historic city of Pécs in the south? If so, and if you would like to travel free of […]
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PO Ferries to Rotterdam – Review
So how good is PO Ferries Hull-Rotterdam route to the continent? I live in the North of England and was travelling to Eastern Europe by car so I thought I’d check it out and give you the pros and cons. The ferry runs each day from Hull to Rotterdam (more exactly Europort) and Rotterdam to Hull, leaving at about 9 pm in […]