It’s festival season across Europe so time to don wellies and prepare yourself for an avalanche of rain and mud. Or maybe not.
Ok so this year Glastonbury-goers experienced better weather than they’ve witnessed in years.
But if you really want to play in the sunshine, Spain’s Festival International de Benicassim (FIB) is the hot tip for music fans!
As the football World Cup in South Africa approaches it brings back great memories of the festival of fun we enjoyed at the last one in Germany. We’d applied for tickets over a year before and secured some for Serbia/Montenegro v Ivory Coast. Not the most mouth-watering game, but it was the World Cup and the occasion was the attraction.
One of the great things about being a travel journalist is that sometimes you’re admitted to places few travellers get access to. One of these is the bridge of a cruise ship. I’m lucky enough to have been on the bridge of three ships now and it is a great experience – a chance to see what goes on while cruisers are relaxing on the sundeck.
A few years ago I went to Los Gigantes in Tenerife and if I’m honest I wasn’t that enamoured with it. It lacked a certain “Canarianess”. I know Tenerife is in the main a mass-market destination but one thing that bothered me was that I was on a Spanish island and there was hardly a hint of Spanish food about.
A few years ago I left the bright lights of London for a tiny Midlands village, but deep down I’m a city girl and London is one of my favourites. Of course most people love their hometown, but London, despite it’s many flaws (any commuter would happily fill you in on those) is one of the [...]
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