It’s doubtful if any of us in the UK will experience anything like the sporting extravaganza that was the London 2012  Olympics.  As well as all the events going on in and around the capital, many people got a brief glimpse of a precious moment in time when the Olympic...

Here’s another quirkilicious post from Alvina Labsvirs, who’s storming away in the world of travel blogging.  Last year she attended one of our TQT Travel Writing Workshops. Wander around the capital city of Riga and you would be forgiven for thinking you were in Prague or Brussels.  The old buildings...

“It’s gotta be the most beautiful place in England.  It’s our second visit but this is our first time out on Windermere.” Beaming Bob from New York was sitting next to his wife on the lovely ‘Tern’, as we sailed along the lake, sharing his impressions of their trip.  They...

You may have already heard quite a lot about Sardinia, that foot-shaped island surrounded by the wonderful Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Italy.  Now find out some very curious and charming facts from Giulia Garau, an Italian travel lover living in Sardinia.  Sardinia – la Maddalena Archipelago I love...

It looks magical on a sunny day – the porcelain glitters in the sunlight.  Every available surface of the exquisite, colourfully kitsch Little Chapel, a tiny replica of Lourdes, is covered in a myriad of tiny pieces of china, pebbles and glass; the effect is gloriously OTT. I am on...

When you think of London you think Big Ben, the Queen, Hyde Park, maybe the Imperial War Museum or Docklands – not an underground movement of urban art slowly crawling its way across the city like a politically colourful Japanese Knotweed. It’s time to see London differently, so set up...

In the second of the ‘Challenge Zoë’ activities for The Kendal Courier I had a golf lesson at Carus Green, Kendal’s new golf course.  Here’s the article that originally appeared in the magazine. Oh, the sweet thwack as the club hit the ball which soared 100 yards through the air towards the...