The journey from Gran Canaria airport to the south is via a drab, grey volcanic landscape, interspersed with occasional prickly pear plants.  Not the most prepossessing of starts to a holiday, so we were delighted when we arrived at the luxurious timeshare Holiday Club resort of Sol Amadores.  Our huge,...

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...

The cheaping of ducklings floated across the grass as the spring sun set across the diamond-studded lake below.   The white wine was perfectly chilled and there was a delicious smell of barbequed meat coming from somewhere not far away.  These moments don’t come very often and when they do, we...

“Can we take our water bottles through?” “Pardon?” “Can we take our water bottles through security?” “Oh yes, of course you can. You can take anything you like – bottle of champagne if you fancy it!” And all this with a friendly smile and a wave through Customs! What  a...

Setting off on a journey from Carnforth Station is rather like being on a film set – the platform and Refreshment Room are very similar to how they looked on that classic 1940s movie Brief Encounter’ – with an exciting journey into the unknown ahead.  This time I was going...

Nykirken in Bergen – image Pudelek Gazing out across the bleak container base alongside which we’d berthed an hour earlier, looking at the sheeting rain against mist-shrouded mountains, I was not the least bit tempted to go ashore … I’d had a sleepless night being bounced up and down and...

Quirky Travel is all about seeing the world from a different angle, looking at things from all sides, finding the unusual, the interesting, the fascinating.  Meeting delightful people, discovering new cultures, eating strange foods and seeing curious customs, have fuelled my life-long love of the breadth and depth of experiences...