Archive for the ‘Europe’ Category
Visiting the Peak District from Abroad
For anyone who is visiting the Peak District from abroad, you could not have chosen a more appropriate place in which to get a good gist of England. In many ways, the Peak District is the quintessential England. It combines stately home grandeur with simple working class towns, along with historic medieval stone circles and Roman spa towns.
The area in itself is a National Park, and covers as much as five hundred and forty square miles, and throughout this area there are hundreds of different walks you can tackle. The countryside walk is another English institution and here in the [...]
Paris on a Budget
Museum pass
An ideal way to see the best museums in Paris is by purchasing the Carte Musees et Monuments museum pass which allows you entrance into sixty museums and monuments including the Musée du Louvre, Arc de Triomphe and the Panthéon. The card costs €15 for one day, €30 for three days and €45 for five days. You can buy the card at any of the museums or monuments it covers – a great way to save some Euros while not cutting back on your experience.
Notre Dame
The famous gothic cathedral of Notre Dame meaning ‘Our Lady’ was started in [...]
Greek Island of Crete
Many changes took place across the face of earth, since the globalization began to propel the world by the late 1980s. The emerging new world order had many fast growing economies and several new regional powers to be content with. New players in the world tourism were on rise too. While Greece had always been a preferred choice for holiday making, suddenly new players began to fill up this spot as well. Egypt and Turkey in particular had their tourism infrastructure upgraded and were now drawing away a substantial amount of the Greek bound tourism inflow. A majority of these [...]