General Travel

Via San Gregorio Armeno -Naples' street of Nativity workshops is Naples’ cultural and historical pulse center.

Via San Gregorio Armeno is so named after the baroque church and monastery on this street. In the eighth century Armenian nuns fleeing from the Byzantine Empire reached Naples with the relics of… read full article

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To celebrate the release of the 22nd James Bond film, I decided to compile together a list of places to go where Bond spends some of his time in the latest film, The Quantum of Solace.

If there's one thing that Hollywood has taught us in the 100 years, it's… read full article

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An Art unlocking experience at Le Méridien St Julians Hotel & Spa…

Check in at Le Méridien St Julians Hotel & Spa and immerse in a captivating and cultural ambiance! From now on, every guest is greeted upon arrival with a hotel room keycard that is everything but… read full article

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Situated in the beautiful Inn Valley and surrounded by mountains on all sides the location alone makes Innsbruck a year round holiday destination.

On its north end is the Karwendel range with Nordkette raising its jagged head. Its south is ringed in by the Saile and Serles group of mountains… read full article

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No, not that kind of Bath. Bath is a small city in Somerset located 100 miles west of London, named after the site of of a natural hot spring, which the Celtic tribes used to regard as a shrine. Then, when the Roman Empire extended… read full article

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Bulgaria is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world and with good reason. Summer resorts, winter resorts, mineral baths, heritage cities, monasteries Bulgaria has them all.

But winter tourism in Bulgaria is special. Bulgaria probably has some of the best winter resorts in Europe, or… read full article

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In the age of budget airlines and the Channel Tunnel, there just aren’t as many of us out there considering the lost art of ferry travel.

Britain is an island and has some of the highest rates of tourist travel in Europe, but how many of us can… read full article

Tags:  Netherlands, Spain, transportation, UK | 1 Comment

Not enough people realize just how amazing and beautiful Slovenia is. Maybe they aren’t sure where it is for a start. Well it’s a stones throw from a certain tourist haven called Venice, just to the north east of Italy.

It was recognized as being independent from Yugoslavia… read full article

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The romance of Rome is a blog that can go two ways. One that discusses the legend that is the city and another that focuses on how romantic the city is. Rome is probably one of the fewest cities in the world that carries in its streets austere history… read full article

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As the capital of the Orthodox Tsarist Russia, St Petersburg is chock full of magnificent cathedrals, quiet churches and once-powerful monasteries. Besides Christianity most of the great religions are represented and while the buildings may differ in architectural size, magnificence or religion served, they all make interesting places… read full article

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If you close your eyes and try and imagine an image of Italy in your mind, the buildings, the people, the landscape, the sounds, the foods, then if you open them and you were in the Cinque Terre then you’d probably think you’d still had your eyes closed. The five… read full article

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Some people think of museums as stuffy old buildings unsuited for anyone younger than 60. They see these facilities as quiet warehouses for relics of the past - unassuming, unchanging and above all, boring.

It is my pleasure to inform those who come to Amsterdam with such… read full article

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Finland is cold, it’s covered in wood and it’s where people love to feel completely revitalized. Is it any surprise to hear then that for the people of Finland their favorite place in the world is in their sauna?

For those of you who don’t know, a sauna… read full article

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There’s something about old places that attracts me. So among the many schools and universities offering Spanish Language classes, I opted to study at Spain’s oldest University, the Universidad de Salamanca. It is the world’s fourth oldest university after the Universities of Paris, France, Bologna, Italy and… read full article

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If you try and imagine what you thought of when hearing all those famous fairy tales when you were young, from Hansel and Gretel to the Three Little Pigs and now more recently the animated film Shrek, then you’re well on your way to imaging what the Belgium city of… read full article

Tags:  Bruges, family, romance | 2 Comments