Posts Tagged ‘Holidays’

Titanic holidays: A journey to Nova Scotia, the spiritual grave of the great ship

By Paul Gogarty You cannot miss the Titanic this year. Even Julian Fellowes has got on board with his new series on the fateful voyage. You could, though, be marking the centenary of its sinking someplace far more wild and rugged than your sofa – because the accurate guardians

Posted on March 17th, 2012 in Travel | 3 Comments »

Cruise holidays: All aboard for a voyage with everything with Royal Caribbean

Cruise holidays: All aboard for a voyage with everything with Royal Caribbean My interactive cabin Television was attempting to convince me to head down to Ben &amp Jerry’s and get stuck in to some ice cream for breakfast. I was tempted but I had busy day of iceskating and

Posted on March 12th, 2012 in Travel | No Comments »

Megeve ski holidays: High class on high Alpine slopes

By Neil English PUBLISHED: 11:02 EST, 11 March 2012 | UPDATED: 11:02 EST, 11 March 2012 Even the cow barns are 5-star in Megeve, the French ski resort produced by Baroness Rothschild in 1921 to rival Switzerland’s affluent St Moritz. When I turned up at La Ferme de Joseph

Posted on March 12th, 2012 in Travel | No Comments »

Moscow holidays: Change is in the air but Moscow is as mesmerising as ever

By Mark Palmer PUBLISHED: 13:13 EST, 9 March 2012 | UPDATED: 13:13 EST, 9 March 2012 Moscow ought to be a single of only a few locations in the planet exactly where you positively hope for leaden skies, sub-zero temperatures and the promise of snow flurries in the morning.

Posted on March 10th, 2012 in Travel | 4 Comments »

Sicily holidays: Discovering the real Italy in Taormina, Siracusa and Noto

By Andrew Pierce. Final updated at 10:02 AM on 7th March 2012 Only when the pan went up in flames did I suspect that a thing wasn’t fairly right with my Pasta Palermo. As smoke emanated from what ought to have been a classic Sicilian dish dominated by anchovies,

Posted on March 9th, 2012 in Travel | 1 Comment »

Holidays in Crete: Hunting for Yogi Bear in a cave on Zorba’s island

By Margarita Madden Last updated at 8:10 PM on 4th March 2012 Numerous people assume Crete is just a place exactly where youngsters flock in the summer, eager to sample the throbbing nightclubs and bars. But the island gives so significantly a lot more besides – there are idyllic

Posted on March 6th, 2012 in Travel | 1 Comment »

Family holidays in France: Try a purpose-built riverside villag ein colourful Corbieres

By Jeremy Daniels Last updated at five:01 PM on 24th February 2012 Beaches, vineyards, castles – and more baguettes than you can shake a stick at. Not only that, le discomfort is not delivered from automated machines like the ones those busy people in Paris get pleasure from, but

Posted on February 25th, 2012 in Travel | No Comments »