One of America’s biggest party towns which has a worldwide reputation for having a joie de vivre quite like no other place on earth, New Orleans bewitches many a traveller who visits this famous Louisiana city. Located on the Mississippi River, the “Big Easy” is a vibrant melting pot with a dizzying array of vibrant cultures…
Beautiful places of Italy – discovering Cinque Terre
The remarkable folded coastline of the Cinque Terre (Five Lands) stretches between the beach resort of Levanto and the port of La Spezia. It encompasses five impossibly beautiful tiny villages – Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore – which are spectacularly wedged into a series of coves between sheer cliffs – their comparative isolation, and…
8 reasons why you should visit Poland
Poland – a country which resides on what was formerly known as Eastern Europe – is a country whose tourist star is dramatically rising. A place which has long been steeped in tradition and history, it’s also a land of a land of considerable natural beauty with whose idyllic lakes, beaches and mountains which are…
Top 12 cool and unusual hotels in Chicago
Once called “the pulse of America” the city that was founded in the early 1800s and resides on the mighty Lake Michigan in Illinois, is in many ways one of the USA’s greatest. Due to the sometimes blustery nature of the residents (and politicians!), the fact the city is quite a formidable force and also the…
6 reasons why you should visit Brazil
FIFA World Cup, the largest football event competition, started in Brazil. But besides the major sporting activities, the country is also a top tourist destination known for zest for life and astonishing natural beauty. You don’t need to wait for another world cup competition for you to travel to this largest city in South America….
Braving ice climbing in Alberta, Canada
We all have a favourite superhero (especially if you’re a young-at-heart man approaching middle age, like me), but Spider-Man is certainly up there with the best-loved of all the planet-saving characters many of us have grown up with. At some point, we’ve probably all wanted to be able to climb up the side of a…
Top 15 cool and unusual hotels in Rome
I have been lucky enough to travel to numerous beautiful locations in my life so far but none of them can ever quite match up to Rome, which is, in my opinion, the most vibrant, beautiful and exquisitely cultural city in the world. It has everything; layers of history, amazing nightlife, heavenly cuisine, sunshine, sea…