“Start your blog post with a really catchy opener. In the easily-distracted world of online communication, if you’ve not got your reader’s attention within the first few seconds, you may as well not bother to write the rest of the article.” A top tip for aspiring bloggers – and one...
Quirky Travel Question: where in Europe is South Tyrol? Now be honest. No quick checking on Google. How many of you answered Austria? That was my immediate thought when I received an invitation to visit South Tyrol (also known as Alto Adige or Südtirol). However, I soon learnt that it’s actually in...
Having been farmed, plundered, conquered and cherished by everyone from Neolithic man, the Romans, Arabs, Knights of St John and the British, today it is tourists who invade Malta every year. Church and yachts near Sliema Malta I’ve been twice, on a recent stay at the very luxurious Azure Golden...
Ithaka The last of the summer sun flooded the beach and filtered through the open widows of the Ithaki Restaurant on Ornos Beach, Mykonos..* It was Oxi Day, the 28th October, a national holiday in Greece, celebrating the day they said ‘No’ to the Italian dictator Mussolini in 1940. (He demanded...
So you want to be a travel blogger? You love travel, enjoy adventure and having new experiences. Maybe you follow a few travel blogs and have seen some fab photos by travel bloggers around the world. You have a desire to communicate your passion online and want to earn money from blogging, turning...
We could hear the honking as soon as we got out of the car. We could also smell the pungent whiff of rotting seaweed and salty sea air. There before us were dozens of seals of all ages. Bulls lolloping around like pashas in a harem, females with flippers in...
The plaque on the simple cross tells a tragic tale. Two men sharing the same surname, both killed in war, but 25 years apart. Father and son crosses at Notre-Dame de Lorette M de Sars senior died in World War One in 1915. His son Edmond was killed in 1940 in...
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