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Holiday Romance – Looking for love overseas

Holiday Romance – Looking for love overseas

Are you going on holiday to find romance ? Many people do. Taking a holiday is a great way to relax and it’s a well known fact that when you are relaxed, it’s easy to make conversations and develop relationships with other people. Or perhaps you are going on a holiday to keep the romance [...]

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Chasing the winter sun

Chasing the winter sun

When the summer season is at its height, it is often hard to imagine that the long hours of sunshine and clear blue skies will soon be taken over by wet, grey and dreary days. This is the time when the sentimental part of us makes us reach for our holiday snaps to revive those [...]

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Booking a last minute holiday

The British weather has been playing its caprices on us again this summer and for many of us it is even hard to imagine that the ‘real’ summer is still at its height everywhere else… You know which one I’m talking about – the one with clear blue skies and hours and hours of unobstructed [...]

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Guided tour or package holiday?

Guided tour or package holiday?

With the boom of the travel industry and the unpredictability of the British weather, we have become spoilt for choice when it comes to the tour operator’s products competing for our attention to escape to the hot sun. Sometimes it can be really hard to choose the ideal type of holiday for you, especially if [...]

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Viva Las Vegas

Viva Las Vegas

The choice of fun things to do in the world capital of entertainment is simply endless. When I found myself there, I just didn’t know where to start! I visited last November, and previously on other four occasions.  All my stays were just short breaks around five nights which was more than enough – let’s [...]

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The East meets West in Turkey

The East meets West in Turkey

But not just completely yet…  and it’s a good thing because Turkey,  one of the most popular and most visited countries outside the Eurozone, has managed to preserve a lot of its traditions, character and identity.
I went at the beginning of June, and the long-lasting impressions were so strong that I literally did’t want to return [...]

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Touring Sri Lanka and The Maldives

Touring Sri Lanka and The Maldives

Sri Lanka and The Maldives, what a great combination of countries! I departed in mid September as this was the only time available to me and although I expected a bit of rain, there was only sunshine with no cloud in sight for the full 10 days I was on holiday.
The 11 hours in [...]

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