Travel cards to save you time and money: The Lisbon Tourist Office have a few travel cards that can help you save some money and time during your stay in Lisbon. Lisboa Card The Lisboa Card allows free and unlimited travel on Carris buses, trams and funiculars, the underground, as well as on the CP … [Read more...]
Vienna’s heuriger
Vienna's Heuriger - a Viennese institution: Vienna is well known for its famous composers like Mozart and Strauss, waltzes, the Vienna Boy's Choir, Schönbrunn Palace and the Sacher torte, to name a few. But just as famous should be the Viennese Heuriger, a typically Viennese … [Read more...]
Piazza San Marco
A Piazza full of history: Piazza San Marco is usually the starting point of any sightseeing tour of Venice. There's a lot to see here and within this Piazza are some of the greatest historic landmarks of Venice. At the eastern end are two of Venice's most important landmarks - the Basilica … [Read more...]
Kirkenes Snow Hotel – A Cool Hotel Experience
At the Kirkenes Snow Hotel Everything's Built from Ice: If you are travelling to Norway and would like a hotel that's really cool, literally, and which also promises to be the ultimate in Arctic experience - then take a look at the Snow Hotel in Kirkenes, Norway's most north-eastern town and … [Read more...]
A Mozart and Strauss Concert is a Must-do in Vienna
Vienna's Mozart and Strauss concerts: Not everyone's privileged enough to attend Vienna's highly sought after New Year's Eve concert, but when you're in Vienna, you should attend at least one of their many classical music concerts. As you wonder around town, you'll come across many Mozart … [Read more...]
Hundertwasserhaus – An Amazing Housing Block
Hundertwasserhaus - Vienna's higgledy-piggledy apartment block: Council housing blocks are not what you'd normally want to visit on any holiday sightseeing tours. However, in Vienna, the Hundertwasserhaus is something quite extraordinary. Hundertwasserhaus was originally a dour … [Read more...]
Rialto Bridge or Ponte di Rialto – an Iconic Venice Bridge
Rialto Bridge or Ponte di Rialto is an Iconic Venice Bridge: Ponte di Rialto or Rialto Bridge as we know it, is one of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal in Venice and the oldest amongst the four. Built between 1588 and 1591, this was the only link between the two sides of the Grand … [Read more...]
The Historic Regensburg Wurstkuchl
Enjoy Regensburg bratwurst at the Historic Wurstkuchl: On any Danube river cruises, you'll most certainly hear about "Wurstkuchl" in Regensburg, a tavern famous for its bratwurst. Your river boat will stop near the Old Stone Bridge, thought to be the eighth wonder of the world when it was built. … [Read more...]
Festivals – Galway Oyster Festival
The World's longest running oyster festival: My greatest disappointment with my two trips to Ireland is that I've never made it to the Galway International Oyster Festival, usually held in September to celebrate the start of the oyster season. I love oysters and Tony loves oysters and … [Read more...]
Cobh – Ireland
Cobh, the Queenstown Story: Cobh is a town of three names (Cobh, Cove and Queenstown) and millions of memories. Many books and novels have been written about the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1800's, the mass exodus of people in search of a better life elsewhere, and the pain and suffering … [Read more...]
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