Fun and exciting info for senior travellers
My first visit to Sorrento was 15 years ago when, by mistake, I found myself driving around the Sorrentine Peninsula and along the Amalfi Coast rather than visiting Pompeii. In those pre-sat nav days I’d taken the wrong turning somewhere …
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Layovers don’t have to mean endless hours of watching the clock and waiting for your vacation to start. In fact, a layover can actually be a memorable part of your trip and, dare we say it, fun. Here are nine creative ways to spend a long layover.
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Cardiff has much to offer senior travellers when taking a short break, whether by themselves or with grandchildren in tow. We took our seven year old granddaughter to Cardiff for four nights – her first time away without her parents. …
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Written by Jane Critchley (A highly commended runner-up entry in the Travel and Water Writing Competition.) My first lasting impression of Norway featured enormous, orange flowering jellyfish in Stavanger harbour. My second was MS Lofoten. Now the oldest of the …
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Lost luggage tips: what to do if an airline loses your bag, including information on delayed and stolen luggage.
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Yorkshire, England’s largest county, is a great place to visit if you are a heritage fan with both English Heritage and the National Trust having a wide range of sites. The many ruined abbeys around the county are testament to …
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Written by Rosemary Gemmell (A highly commended runner-up entry in the Travel and Water Writing Competition.) Traversing the Panama Canal on one of the largest cruise ships to make the journey, we felt a slight frisson of apprehension as we …
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International Cell Phone Guide: We’ve outlined the pros and cons of each cell phone option abroad so you can figure out which one is right for you — and your budget.
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We’ve compiled one of the most comprehensive guides available to sleeping in hotels, covering everything from what you should ask when you’re booking the room to how you can swiftly take care of noisemakers so you can get back to sleep.
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You’ll have packing down pat with our practical packing tips, which include advice for air travelers, hints on rolling versus folding, the ingenious bundle approach to packing — and more.
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