Eternal Rome
The Eternal City is a treasure trove of world-famous sights that are easy to explore…
Berlin – be inspired
Roger Bray considers art and history in this iconic city….
Great Cruise
Ambassador Cruises are fabulous for the over 60s. So easy to board (no flying hassle) and the staff/crew are so friendly, kind and professional. Entertainment and food also rate highly….
Unique
A hotel like no other. A personal welcome from the owner on arrival, to be part of his family and to treat the hotel like our “home from home”. Generous gifts to welcome us and being treated like valued friends. Only a 10-minute stroll from Laganas yet surrounded by the olive groves of the hotel’s […]…
A Muralha – Quirky Little Hotel Close To Everything in Tavira – Great Value for money
We booked a last minute trip traveling on Boxing Day from Edinburgh to Faro and then on to Tavira for 3 nights where we stayed at Hotel A Muralha. The hotel’s location is excellent a few minutes walk from the Roman Bridge and the ferry dock to Tavira Island. Tavira railway station is about 10 […]…
Audio Tour of La Fenice Theatre was a good way to see inside and learn its history
Before leaving for our visit to Venice in November I said I’d like to see inside La Fenice on this holida as we’ve walked past the famous opera house in Venice many times but never been inside so my husband booked tickets online for an audio tour. Teatro La Fenice is one of the top […]…
A long-awaited return to France – our best holiday of 2023!
Before my retirement from teaching in 2011, our summer holidays were always spent in France. Since then we’ve been travelling much further afield, but for several years have been looking for an opportunity (interrupted by both Brexit and Covid) to reprise our adventures in our favourite country. Finally, in 2023, we set off to divide […]…
Great value
Lovely old hotel. Nice room. Very reasonable price. Great for a winter warm up. Not so lovely coming back to the cold…
Mini Cruise to Haarlem Christmas Market
A friend and I looked forward to what was sold as a mini cruise to visit the Christmas market in Haarlem which is a town very close to Amsterdam. It wasn’t expensive and we thought it would be a nice short break before Christmas. We booked through a local coach company as it offered a […]…
PTG Rail Tours
This is the second time we have used this company , and we enjoyed a holiday in Slovenia. We toured the country by train as much as possible and by coach when we could not. Unfortunately the storms in August had disrupted some of the branch lines in the mountains, however all went very well […]…
Venice in November – a beautiful budget break
Sitting in the outside deck seats at the front of the vaporetto on the No. 2.1 route, the sun shining down on us as we slid under Rialto Bridge down the Grand Canal, I thought how lucky we’d been to have escaped the terrible wet weather in the UK. Admittedly it wasn’t much warmer than […]…
Prague Experience
First holiday since Covid with my wife and 20 year old son. Wonderful hotel that was really central and handy for all the sites – Wenceslas Square, Charles Bridge, Old Town Square etc. We were also only a 5 minute walk from two amazing opera houses. Our son is a big classical music fan (plays […]…
