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| St Ronan’s Wells, Innerleithen, Scottish Borders |
| 2008-08-30 12:50:28 |
Although I’ve driven through the village of Innerleithen, around 10 miles east of Peebles in the Scottish Borders several times I’ve never stopped in the village. When I saw the brown tourist signs pointing to St Ronan’s Well I decided it was time to take a look.
I’m really glad I did. It was early [...]...
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| £60 Stansted to Reykjavik flights with Iceland Express on 1 September 2008 |
| 2008-08-29 05:38:28 |
Iceland Express will offer 3,000 tickets from London Stansted to the Icelandic capitall Reykjavik for only £60 including taxes for one day only, Monday 1 September 2008. Tickets will be available on selected flights and dates. You must book online on 1 September and complete your travel between 15 September 2008 and 31 March [...]...
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| Guest interview - Brittany Averette of Euros Ate My Dollars |
| 2008-08-29 05:23:59 |
I stumbled upon the Euros Ate My Dollars blog and asked Brittany one the co-authors to talk to Europe a la Carte to tell us more about the blog.
1 What is the aim of your blog?
I guess the boring answer is that a blog was a way for our friends and family to [...]...
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| Finding some breathing room in Cinque Terre |
| 2008-08-29 00:00:12 |
Cinque Terre Reflections - Copyright Andrew Hayes
As previously reported on Europe A La Carte, the picturesque fishing villages of the Cinque Terre are on the up. However, things have gotten a little out of hand – with tourism in the area skyrocketing, things can feel distinctively crowded here in Cinque Terre. You do not have [...]...
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| Split, Croatia – Beauty of the Dalmatian Region |
| 2008-08-28 08:17:47 |
Split is in the middle of Croatian right off the coast and is a beautiful city with many things to see and do. The nightlife can’t be beat and the food options are limitless. There are many attractions and all throughout the year there are ferries that go to the many islands that are [...]...
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| Wine Festivals in Germany - Heilbronner Weindorf |
| 2008-08-27 03:54:35 |
When I lived in south-west Germany I was always a little bit sad when the long evenings of summer were coming an end, as they are now - but September brings an event that cheers me up a lot. And it’s all about wine.
There are wine festivals all over Germany at this time of year, [...]...
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| Loo Blues? Find public toilets across the world |
| 2008-08-26 03:00:07 |
We’ve all had those moments - standing in a foreign city, knees squeezed together as you try and work out if you have enough money to buy a coke so that you can use the toilets of the cafe across the street. Public toilets, as has been discussed here before, can be a bit of [...]...
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| Guest interview - Austin Hill of Travellious |
| 2008-08-25 03:36:27 |
Austin Hill is co-founder of the Travellious blog which urges us to travel smarter, often and rebelliously.
1 What is the aim of your blog?
Travellious is a blog for the independent traveler: offering advice, inspiration, and resources for planning your own travel adventure. Too often we’ve seen and experienced what we call [...]...
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| Skogskyrkogården – The Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm |
| 2008-08-24 18:08:03 |
When in 1994 the Woodland Cemetery in Stockholm was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list, it immediately made me wonder if perhaps there was an acute shortage of more worthy sites. The cemetery is lovely, green and big, but it’s just that – a cemetery. The lady at the Stockholm Tourist Office tried her [...]...
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| Oradea, Transylvania, Romania |
| 2008-08-24 07:11:09 |
This guest post describing the Romanian city of Oradea is written by New World Yankee who authors the Yankee in a New World blog which aims to help other American expats adapt to living in Europe.
“Did you see any vampires?”
When I told people I went to Romania, this was the first question I was asked, [...]...
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| Kayak.Com – Unusual Name, Great Fare Search Tool |
| 2008-08-22 00:00:51 |
Sometimes, I tend to over-analyse things. This is usually the case when I am searching for cheap airfare! I previously reported my thoughts on Dutch website cheaptickets.nl but I do have another trick up my sleeve. Kayak is a slick and easy-to-use website that allows endless amounts of manipulation to your search results [...]...
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| Bone chilling beauty in Kutna Hora |
| 2008-08-21 14:40:18 |
An easy day trip from Prague (2 hours by train), this sleepy Czech town is famous for its creepy-cool bone church or ossuary, Kostnice Sedlice. At first glance, its Tim Burtonesque bone chandelier may seem a bit shocking, but in the end, you just can’t turn away. And luckily for your friends and family back [...]...
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| Dubrovnik – One of the New Hot Spots in Europe |
| 2008-08-21 08:58:33 |
When people talk about Croatian tourism what generally comes to mind is the gorgeous city of Dubrovnik, which is located on the southern coast. Dubrovnik is now one of the hot spots for tourism and for good reason, as the city is absolutely gorgeous, which is an understatement like saying Italy has decent food or [...]...
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| Heading to Reading for a Stairway to Heaven Rocktail |
| 2008-08-20 08:33:03 |
The Penta Hotel in Reading has an exclusive “rocktail” on offer to celebrate the 2008 Reading Rock Festival. The rocktail is aptly named “Stairway to Heaven” and will only be available 22 - 24 August 2008, the weekend of the Festival. The expert cocktail maker, Giles Looker, co-founder of Soulshakers. created the [...]...
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| Health and happiness at Heviz in Hungary |
| 2008-08-20 04:28:42 |
The Heviz Thermal Baths are the kind of magical place that force me into pretty, alliterative headlines like this one, but I promise there’s good reason for it.
I wasn’t expecting to really get into the thermal bath culture that’s so prominent through central and eastern Europe but by starting out visiting Hungary’s Heviz baths, I [...]...
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| Photo competition - what’s great about Britain |
| 2008-08-20 03:15:46 |
Regent Street online are running a competition to find photos which epitomise Britishness by portraying what’s great about Britain. You can upload your entry on the site until 31 December 2008. Photos will be judged by their originality, composition and creativity. The top ten photos will be professionally mounted and displayed in Regent Street [...]...
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| Mont Saint Michel |
| 2008-08-19 04:30:31 |
In the incredibly flat plains of the Normandy coastline, Mont St Michel is stunning. This island of rock, topped by a monastery and ringed with a medieval village rises far above the landscape, visible for miles. It stands off the shore, surrounded by floodplains with nothing nearby to distract from its beauty.
The island has a [...]...
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| See Prague in a different light… |
| 2008-08-18 14:46:44 |
This cozy, contained capital city will delight you to no end—as long as you can stay away from the tourist mobs. Prague attracts thousands of tourists round the year, and if you go in the summer, especially in August when the Czechs are mostly all on vacation, you might think that the beauty of the [...]...
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| Guest Post - Is a Hostel Really Right for Me? |
| 2008-08-18 01:16:13 |
Jennifer Gregory is a writer with a passion for travel. After completing her degrees in Social Work and eBusiness, she traveled through Europe, across America, Mexico, and the Caribbean. She now writes for On the Go Travel Blog. In this post Jennifer advises travelllers to consider if a hostel will suit their needs.
My first [...]...
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| Barents Road – A Different Kind of Road Trip |
| 2008-08-17 17:40:20 |
Ever fancied driving from Bodø in Norway to Murmansk in Russia? Me neither. But that’s exactly what we did earlier this summer. Or rather, almost did, as we finished our trip in Finland – getting a Russian visa to continue all the way to Murmansk was just too much hassle. Instead, we decided to stop [...]...
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| East Lothian Food & Drink Festival 26 - 28 September 2008 |
| 2008-08-17 11:51:46 |
East Lothian, located east of Edinburgh will be hosting the 8th annual Food & Drink Festival from 26 - 28 September 2008. Various events are being held to showcase the quality.local produce.
The weekend kicks off with a Ceilidh with supper a the Glenkinchie Distillery on the evening of 26 September. On the morning of [...]...
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| Glitz and old world charm collide in Kiev |
| 2008-08-15 16:46:56 |
As the capital of formerly Soviet Ukraine, the city of Kiev (or Kyiv) is the hyper kid on the Ukrainian playground. Beyond the casino-lined downtown plazas that blossom off of Kreschatik Street, the city still carries the dusty, broken sidewalk stigma of a country steering slowly away from corruption. But Kiev is nonetheless a very [...]...
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| World Travel Green Awards can’t be bothered to answer press queries |
| 2008-08-15 08:55:21 |
The inaugural World Travel Green Awards will be held in Slovakia on 16 October 2008 in tandem with the Europe Travel Awards. The event will take place at Aqua City which bills itself as the ” the World’s leading green resort”.
There are ten categories such as green resort (surely the host Aqua City must be [...]...
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| The other side of Croatia - Pula |
| 2008-08-15 04:10:06 |
Croatia continues to grow in terms of tourism, but when many people think of visiting Croatia they think of the southern part, especially Dubrovnik. Now don’t get me wrong Dubrovnik is gorgeous, which is why it is currently one of the hottest travel destinations in the world. However, on the opposite end of the country, [...]...
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| Welcome the lastest member of the Europe a la Carte blogging team |
| 2008-08-15 03:14:07 |
I’d like to introduce you to the most recent member of the Europe a la Carte blogging team.
Hello, I’m Jason Green a 35 year old American professional freelance writer and currently live in Croatia. I graduated college from San Francisco State with a degree in International Relations in 2003 and since then have, pretty much, [...]...
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| Free Travel Guides at A Day In |
| 2008-08-15 00:00:45 |
I happened upon the website http://www.adayin.com which claims to sell ‘free vacation guides’. Upon further investigation, I have to say I am very impressed! At first I thought they only have guides for Northern Europe and the Mediterranean, but this is simply a bug with the display map as a number of central European destinations [...]...
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| Guest interview - Pam Mandel of Nerds Eye View |
| 2008-08-14 02:37:26 |
I’ve known Pam Mandel of Nerds Eye View for a couple of years, initially through the Blogher network for female bloggers. Pam recently started a forum for travel bloggers.
1 What is the aim of your blog?
My aim, first and foremost, is to tell good stories about travel. There’s a bunch of secondary stuff [...]...
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| Vienna museum pick: Haus der Musik |
| 2008-08-13 01:57:20 |
While a lot of travellers seem to be shying away from museums these days - someone seems to have told them you don’t “have to” visit museums to see a city - one that I highly recommend in Vienna is the Haus der Musik (House of Music), also known as the Sound Museum.
It’s the kind [...]...
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| Slow travel: the camping option |
| 2008-08-12 02:43:48 |
As modern tourists we tend to travel fast. We fly in, grab a hotel room (or hostel bed), see all the tourist sights, try a local meal or two and zip back home again. We stay within cities, we are surrounded by other tourists and we do it all in a hurry before our days [...]...
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| Free events - Malmö City Festival |
| 2008-08-10 18:23:23 |
Malmö used to get a bad rap. Back in the olden days it was a grimy, industrial city filled with the sort of grimy, industrial stuff you’d normally find in such places. Fortunately, those days are long gone, and now clean and sparkling Malmö is giving Stockholm a run for its money. Some pundits disregard [...]...
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| Doors Open Weekends free entry during September 2008 |
| 2008-08-09 07:11:31 |
During September 2008 there’s free entry to an array of interesting properties all over Scotland during Doors Open Days, the biggest free architectural event in Scotland. Each region will host the event on a different weekend. Some of the properties belonging to Historic Scotland and the National Trust for Scotland usually [...]...
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| Amsterdamse Bos: Amsterdam’s Enchanted Forest |
| 2008-08-08 00:00:02 |
“Bos” means forest in Dutch, but Amsterdamse Bos is much more than that. Rarely visited by the casual tourist, this wooden oasis is an easy 30 minute cycle ride out of town but feels like it is worlds away. It is one of the largest city parks in Europe, with its 137km (85mi) of footpaths, [...]...
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| Photo Friday at Delicious Baby - Lake Iseo |
| 2008-08-07 15:17:53 |
Debbie at Delicious Baby has started new feature, Photo Friday where you can submit a travel photo. I decided to showcase photos of my beloved Lake Iseo in northern Italy. The first photo is of the view to Monte Isola the largest lake island in Europe from the banks of Lake Iseo.
The second photo [...]...
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| Why I won’t be visiting Russia |
| 2008-08-07 04:00:40 |
I read a headline that tourist are “afraid to visit Russia“. Reading the article I’m not sure that afraid is the correct term I’d say more deterred by high hotel prices, the hassle of obtaining a visa, the language barrier and lack of cheap flights.
Moscow has the highest global hotel prices which would certainly put [...]...
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| Deep in the Luxembourg countryside: Esch-sur-Sure |
| 2008-08-06 01:10:06 |
View from Castle Ruin at Esch-sur-Sure
It’s true that Luxembourg is really too small for you to get deep into the countryside, but just the same, I think it’s often an overlooked spot. Lots of travelers visit Luxembourg just to add another country to their list and initially, I admit my goals were pretty much the [...]...
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| Newcastle 3 night full board family breaks for £249 |
| 2008-08-05 05:54:27 |
HotelShop are offering 3 night family breaks at the Quality Hotel in Newcastle upon Tyne for only £249 per family until 30 September 2008. This rate includes breakfast, dinner and lunch for 2 adults and 2 kids (aged under 14)., which is great value at £83 per night for full board for a family. [...]...
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| Jumping the queue, Italian style |
| 2008-08-05 03:40:18 |
Nothing ruins a trip more than standing in line for hours to see the sights, and no country has more sights to see than Italy. Arriving hot, sweaty and tired at the feet of Michelangelo’s David certainly doesn’t improve one’s art appreciation and if you’re on a limited time budget it’s a shame to waste [...]...
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