Posted on February 6th, 2008 by
With its National Media Museum, elegant Victorian civic buildings set alongside old mills built from local sandstone, and some of the finest Indian food in the UK, Bradford in Yorkshire, England, is a wonderful city for a great day out.
Long a centre for the woollen industry and textiles, Bradford became prosperous during the Industrial Revolution, […]
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Posted on January 17th, 2008 by
It seemed that for many years St Pancras, the grand old brick-built Gothic revival railway station next door to King’s Cross (also a railway station for those of you not familiar with London), was a bit forlorn and forgotten, compared to its busy neighbour. But now, as I reported a while back, the station is […]
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Posted on January 11th, 2008 by
On the Adriatic Sea coast in the south of Croatia, is the fine historical city and seaport of Dubrovnik which is Croatia’s most prominent tourist attraction.
Dubrovnik is a city unlike any other – its old white stoned and red roofed buildings are surrounded by walls also of white masonry, which run for two kilometres around […]
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Posted on December 30th, 2007 by
Within Rome itself is the enclave known as the State of the Vatican City, which is the sovereign territory of the Holy See, the Pope. It is the smallest nation in the world, and even has representation in the United Nations, as a non-voting member state.
Within the Vatican City you can find the grand Saint […]
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Posted on December 27th, 2007 by
Now that the New Year is almost upon us, it could be time to be considering a spring break, and where better to spend a few days, just as the weather is finally turning warmer, than the wonderful city of Rome?
The Eternal City is built on seven hills, on the River Tiber, and was lucky […]
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Posted on October 28th, 2007 by
“There is no reason to postpone your trip to Prague” – so it says at www.prague.cz, Prague’s tourist website. And with Prague in recent years becoming one of Europe’s most popular spots for a city break, there is good reason to take those words to heart.
Prague is considered to be one of the most beautiful […]
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Posted on October 14th, 2007 by
In my last post I talked about the medieval city of York, which was founded by the Romans, and is one of Europe’s few walled cities.
One of the most fascinating streets in York is the medieval street known as The Shambles, with its overhanging timber-built shops. The Shambles gets its name from the fact that […]
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Posted on October 12th, 2007 by
So many visitors to England confine themselves to London, Oxford and Stratford-upon-Avon, but I reckon that if you don’t go up north, you are missing lots of things, and one of those things is the impressive and historic walled city of York.
The city was founded in AD 71 by the Romans, but after their departure […]
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Posted on October 10th, 2007 by
Belgrade, built at the point where the Sava and Danube Rivers join, is the capital and largest city of Serbia, and has quite a history of flux of different peoples. First settled by the Celts, then later by the Romans, Belgrade has been under Byzantine, Frankish, Bulgarian, Hungarian and Serbian rulers. It has been part […]
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Posted on October 7th, 2007 by
Winter is coming to the UK, and it is as the autumn leaves start to fall that I turn my thoughts to escaping off to the south of France, where there are reasonably warm temperatures throughout the winter, or at least warm compared with England.
It seems that Vincent Van Gogh also found the south of […]
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