To visit to Prague in autumn is a real treat.  The city zings with colour, the thermometer has dipped from the heat of high summer and the chill of winter is yet to arrive.   Looking down from a gently sloping hillside, tall trees show off a melange of rich shades that would...

What is a Blog Trip? A Blog Trip is an updated version of the Press Trip, often offered by tourist agencies, PR companies and tourism businesses which generate publicity for their venue, resort, hotel, attraction or other holiday destination.   They are similar to Press Trips and may include journalists from...

At a recent network meeting I was asked what I did and replied, “I’m a travel … well, a blogger… I mean, I write travel posts – I’ve got a website I blog on … I’ve had some articles published in magazines …” and ran out of steam.  You probably...

Jerez de la Frontera; this small and perfectly formed city has three big claims to fame; it’s the home of that quintessentially English tipple, sherry, flamenco was born in this region and the world-renowned Royal Spanish Equestrian School is based here.  There’s a strong Moorish influence which is apparent in some...

One of the highlights of this year was showing world-class bloggers Keith Jenkins, of Velvet Escape and Simon Falvo of Wild About Travel, around some of my favourite places in the Lake District. Here’s Keith’s account of that trip … Imagine green rolling hills that stretch to the feet of massive,...

“Can you get rooster online?” asked one of our group.  None of us knew. Well, it’s not something we’d ever thought about, but here we were, standing in the middle of the very smart Ystad Saltsjöbad hotel restaurant, about to roast rooster.  Head Chef Peter was showing us how to make a...

So much has been written about Palma, the elegant capital of Majorca, in the Spanish Balearic islands, that it seems superfluous to add too much, so here are some photos with a few words to explain why I chose them. Hidden in a tiny street behind the cathedral the Arab...