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Europe travel photos and trip planning information
Travel writer Carol Antman surmounts misgivings and mountains in Switzerland When I was invited to tag along as a journalist with Alpine Adventure Trails Tour on a two-week hike in the Swiss Alps, I was eager for my husband Mark to book the trip and come. Somehow he did not share my enthusiasm. “…climbs of 2,500 to 4,000 vertical feet…rugged..strenuous trails with advanced mountaineering options,” I quoted the brochure. “Yikes. We’ll break our legs, or our necks. … [Read more...]
Getting Around Cinque Terre is relatively easy: By Train: The regional train that serves the five villages runs between La Spezia Centrale and Sestri Levanti or Genoa. Fares are cheap at Euro 1.80 one-way, and the difference between a 5 km trip and a 10 km trip is only Euro 20 cents. The tickets are valid for 6 hours in each direction. So if you’re at Riomaggiore and heading north, you can stop at all the other four villages within a 6-hour time-frame. Your return trip requires a … [Read more...]
Walking holidays in Cinque Terre: The Cinque Terre is famous for its scenic coastal walking trails and if like many visitors you intend to do some walking on your holidays, you'll need to buy the Cinque Terre Card. There are three types of Cinque Terre cards: Cinque Terre Card Cinque Terre Card Treno (includes train) Cinque Terre Card Battello (ferry) The cards give you access to the following services: Use of ecological park buses and public elevators Access to the trekking path n° … [Read more...]
London's premier walking trail: London is a great city for sightseeing on foot - if the weather is fine that is! There are many tourist attractions within close proximity of each other and many visitors would have pounded the pavements to Buckingham Palace and Westminster, strolled around Trafalgar and Leicester Squares, spent time shopping along Oxford Street or dashed off to the Tower of London or to the Embankment to catch the London Eye on their London vacation. But, to get a better … [Read more...]
A walking route you can do on your own: Syntagma Square, in front of the Parliament House, is the main square in Athens. It's also known as Constitution Square and around this area you’ll find the banks, airline offices, shopping centres and malls, restaurants and hotels. This is a good starting point for a walking tour of the city, something that you can easily do on your own with the help of a street map. We came here in search of the American Express exchange office, which we … [Read more...]
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We're Helen and Tony Page, and we love travelling - lucky as we've been doing it for the last few decades!
Tony has long been a professional photographer and writer, but Helen now writes most of the posts and takes a lot of photos herself!
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