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Café Neko – Vienna’s Cat Café

August 3, 2013 By Helen Page

At Café Neko, Customers Can Enjoy a Snack in the Relaxing Companionship of Cats: Vienna is famous for its grand cafés and coffee shop culture and many of its traditional coffee houses have been around for decades. A relatively new and different coffee shop on Blumenstockgasse 5 is Café Neko, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: cafe neko, cat cafe neko, neko cafe wien, vienna coffee shop

Rediscovering Rhine Castles on a Rhine River Cruise

August 1, 2013 By Helen Page

Historic and Romantic Castles Dominate This Middle Rhine Valley World Heritage Site: The Middle Rhine Valley is world famous for its concentration of beautiful and grand castles and castle ruins which are a thrilling feature of its rugged landscape.  Most of these castles were built in the 12th … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sightseeing Tagged With: bavarian castles, castle rhine, german castles, rhine castles, rhine river, rhine river castles, rhine river cruises

Claiming VAT Refund at London Heathrow is an Endurance Test

July 28, 2013 By Helen Page

How to Claim VAT Refund at London Heathrow and How Long Does it Take: UPDATE: From 1 January 2021, the UK government ended tax-free sales in airports, ports and Eurostar stations. VAT refunds for overseas visitors in British shops have now been removed. Likewise, you will not be able to claim … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Shopping Tagged With: airport tax refund, tax refund heathrow, tax refund london, tax refund london heathrow

The Promenade Plantée – A Secret Paris Garden

July 28, 2013 By Helen Page

Coulée Verte

A Relaxing Stroll in the Promenade Plantée, an Unusual Paris Garden: The Jardin des Tuileries, Luxemburg Gardens and Bois de Vincennes are all historical Paris parks and gardens that tourists are familiar with.  One relatively new Paris Coulée Verte or green space that is somewhat of a secret … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sightseeing Tagged With: paris gardens, paris parks and gardens, promenade plantee, viaduc des arts

How Good is Your River Cruise Company?

July 28, 2013 By Helen Page

How Well Your River Cruise Operator Handles a Crisis is a Mark of the Company's Reputation: Our Uniworld Paris & the Heart of Europe Cruise was supposed to be on the River Princess starting in Vienna on June 23rd. The early June flooding of the Danube  and other European rivers caused havoc … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Useful facts Tagged With: european river cruises, european river cruises companies, river cruise reviews, uniworld river cruise

Eurostar Check-in at Gare du Nord

July 27, 2013 By Helen Page

The Eurostar Check in Procedure at Paris Gare du Nord is Easy and Painless: Our recent trip to Europe was an interesting one from a luggage perspective. Apart from our mobile office and camera equipment, we had clothing and shoes for the cold weather in Paris, smart clothing for our two-week … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Useful facts Tagged With: eurostar check-in, eurostar check-in time, eurostar gare du nord, eurostar paris to london

Käthe Wohlfahrt – A Famous Christmas Shop in Heidelberg

July 27, 2013 By Helen Page

Käthe Wohlfahrt Has All Kinds of Christmas Decorations for Your Christmas Tree and Home: Heidelberg is packed with wonderful shops and anyone walking along the Hauptstrasse and its side streets will discover this very quickly. One of the shops that is very popular with ladies and children is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Shopping Tagged With: christmas decorations, german christmas decorations, heidelberg shopping, kathe wohlfahrt

The Student Kiss – A Heidelberg Tradition

July 26, 2013 By Helen Page

The Legend of the Heidelberg Student Kiss: Heidelberg has many sweet shops and one of the more interesting chocolate shops is Heidelberger Studentenkuß. Located at Haspelgasse 16 in the heart of the old town centre of Heidelberg, Heidelberger Studentenkuss is a popular chocolate shop with a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Shopping Tagged With: heidelberg chocolate, heidelberg kiss, heidelberger studentenkuss, student kiss

Wine Tasting in Paris at O’Chateau

July 24, 2013 By Helen Page

Enjoy French Wine-Tasting in the Heart of Paris at O'Chateau : For anyone interested in tasting French wines during their holiday in Paris, O Chateau is a wine-tasting company that offers visitors the opportunity to learn about French wines and engage in wine-tasting in the heart of Paris. O … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food Tagged With: o chateau, o chateau wine tasting, paris pass, wine tasting in paris

The Paris Pass – Is it Value for Money?

June 30, 2013 By Helen Page

The Paris Pass Has Benefits that's Worth its Weight in Gold: For our month in Paris we needed to cover as many attractions and museums as possible and there was no question that we needed to buy the Paris Pass for our visits. Sometimes people ask if the Paris Pass is value for money? Although … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sightseeing Tagged With: metro pass, paris museum pass, paris pass, paris sightseeing, paris visite

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Helen and Tony Page at Singapore Changi Airport

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!

Travelsignposts is our main travel planning site, but we've just launched Travelsignposts China and Tony also runs the Travelsignposts Photo and Guerrilla Travel Photography web sites, as well as publishing the Take Better Digital Photos and Guerrilla Travel Photography eBooks.

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