Highlights of Winnipeg

Manitoba is wild and breath-taking with 100,000 lakes and vast tracts of tundra, prairie and boreal forest. Adventurous experiences such as walking with polar bears or swimming with beluga whales take place along 400 kilometres of ocean coastline along the Hudson Bay….

Five highlights of Nicaragua

This year’s hit movie La La Land has a group of yuppies dining out, name dropping Nicaragua as the place to go. Always one to be first on the band wagon, I headed west for a short visit earlier this year. I was keen to see why this little known Central American country was grabbing the ‘go here now’ mantle of Cuba….

The Champagne Region of France

Close your eyes and picture Champagne, a flute of corn coloured bubbles, rows of bright green vines, the town of Rheims with its Gothic cathedral and Epernay with the Avenue de Champagne carving a broad furrow through the centre of town….

Uganda – the pearl of Africa

Professor Ian J Deary talking about life expectancy in our recent report analysing the travel and holiday habits of the over 50s tells us “Stay curious; stay fit; stay engaged; look behind you”. Well in a recent trip to Uganda I can safely say I ticked all those boxes whilst gorilla tracking through the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest….

Highlights of West Bengal

India will be having a bit of a moment this year as it celebrates 70 years of independence with the highly anticipated new film Viceroy’s House starring Hugh Bonneville and Gillian Anderson hitting cinemas on 3 March. Read more….

Highlights of Trinidad and Tobago

Home to the largest carnival celebration in the Caribbean, birthplace of the limbo and the world famous steel pan, Trinidad and Tobago is also ranked the happiest nation in the Caribbean by the United Nations’ World Happiness Report….

Marrakesh and Essaouira

A milestone birthday is a chance to embrace your age and celebrate in style and a perfect excuse to treat a much loved aunt to a spoiling mini break. In honour of my Aunt Jeanette’s 70th birthday I chose Morocco as that perfect combination….

It’s all about bricks – Legoland, Windsor

With over 55 rides, live shows and attractions including the world famous Miniland, plus building workshops and driving schools, Legoland Windsor is an ideal day out if you have grand-children aged 2 – 12….

Cuba

Everyone’s jetting off to Cuba: the Pope, Obama, even the Kardashians. Not one to feel left out, I too recently headed to possibly the Caribbean’s ‘coolest’ island to find out what all the fuss was about….

Top 5 places for a Silver Traveller to visit in Durham

There’s no doubting the UK has more than its fair share of historic universities. There’s Oxford and Cambridge, York with its tangle of quaint cobbled streets, St Andrews Scotland’s oldest university and of course Durham, home to one of the finest cathedrals in the world. Here’s our guide to the Top 5 places a silver traveller should visit in Durham, all easily doable over a weekend….

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