Travel blogs and travel photos

In need of a break away from London, Lauren and I decided to go for a weekend down in Brighton. It's a very nice seaside town, even if its beach is all pebbles, and it was great to get out of London. Even better, since it was February the place wasn't nearly as packed as it no doubt is at the height of summer.It was a wonderfully relaxed weekend away, strolling along the seaside, eating and drinki...

Christmas was on it's way (although still a few months off) and sonaturally thoughts turn to ideas of Holidays and big trips away. Laurenwasn't keen on having another cold Christmas, so we looked at somewarmer Christmas options. The thoughts were Egypt, Morocco or Cuba, allplaces that we both wanted to go. In hindsight, for a warm Christmas,we should have gone to Cuba. Instead we found a tour thro...

Back in 2006, Lauren and I went to the Kristkindlmarkts (Christmas Markets) in Vienna and enjoyed ourselves immensely. Since then Lauren had been told by her manager that the Kristkindlmarkts in Salzburg were even better, and he should know as he is married to an Austrian and has spent a fair amount of time there. This coupled with Lauren's passion for The Sound Of Music (I took Lauren to see the ...

Well, it's the start of November, which in England means Guy Fawkes Day and fireworks being set off everywhere. I'd found out a few weeks earlier that Leeds Castle would be putting on a firework and laser-lights display in the castle grounds, so Elaine, Lauren and I decided to go for a look. Of course, since none of us had been away for a holiday in a while, we decided to make a weekend of it and ...

Well, there hasn't been much opportunity for Lauren and me to travel lately, aside from trips back and forth between London and Dublin to see each other. For a bit of a change of scenery, I decided to get a car for the weekend so we could go on a road trip. Lauren flew in on the Friday night after work, so Saturday morning we got in the car and started driving. We didn't have a destination in min...