It’s Show Time! On Board Brilliance of the Seas
The high quality of the entertainment on board Brilliance of the Seas took our Mediterranean cruise to another level.
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Tales on Rail | Win a Trip To Europe
Tales on Rail | Win a Trip To Europe with Rail Europe
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Ring Out in the Foggy Dew
This week marks the 100 year anniversary of the Easter Uprising in Ireland. Visiting Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin is a stark reminder.
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Mike, an everyday hero set to walk the Via Francigena
Mike, an everydayhero set to walk the Via Francigena to raise funds for Kids With Cancer.
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Expo 2015, Milan, Italy
My invitation to visit Host, an international hospitality exhibition in Milan, Italy, coincided with Expo 2015. What an experience, for the sheer scale of…
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Christine’s 2014 Highlights
Santa Fe, New Mexico 2014 was a great year for Food Wine Travel – one of the best yet. It was one of those…
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The Boat House Restaurant, Bangor, Northern Ireland
Joery Castel is chef at The Boat House restaurant in Bangor, Northern Ireland. His brother Jasper Castel takes care of front of house. They have won numerous accolades from the Restaurant Association of Ireland for their creative food.
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Normandy River Cruise
I’ve been cruising the world’s great rivers for years, and I think it’s a splendid way to travel. I’m surprised that so many people still need to be persuaded about how good it is.
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The train in Spain is better than the plane
Two weeks of travelling by train in southern Spain and Portugal rekindled my love of train travel. It’s a good few years since I travelled…
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Classical Destinations competition
Much of the world’s greatest classical music was inspired by the scenery along the Danube, the Main and the Rhine rivers. Classical Destinations III is the third in a series of DVDs presented by Aled Jones.
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Markets: Conflans Ste Honorine, France
Conflans Ste Honorine is an old village about 24km from the centre of Paris as the crow flies. Its market is very tiny but, as with all French markets, you can be sure of buying the freshest local produce, in season.
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Dining With Victor Hugo
With a name like Victor Hugo, no wonder the Spanish-born chef on board Viking Pride feels right at home in France.
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Their Last Resting Place
No one knows where Septimus Killigrew or the other eight men of the 17th Battalion C Company who died with him are buried. On the night of August 2, 1916, they were moving through the trenches on Pozieres Ridge on their way to a position to bomb when three shells in quick succession killed them instantly.
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Postcard of the Week: Ypres, Belgium
In 2009, we paused before the Menin Gate, a memorial to the British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose graves are unknown. Five of Maurie’s great uncles almost certainly passed through the gate on their way to the front lines.
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Hard Rain in Portugal
In the same way that African Americans sang the Blues, in Portugal they sing Fado. It’s said that Fado is a musical expression for the people’s soul and a way of coming to terms with their fate.
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Postcard of the Week: Faro, Portugal
The bizarre Capela de Ossos (Chapel of Bones) next to Igreja do Carmo (Carmo church) in Faro, Portugal, is lined with the bones and skulls of Carmelite monks.
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El Cabra, Málaga: When The Stars Align
At a beach in Málaga on Spain’s Costa del Sol, an elderly gent is stoking a fire on the hull of an upturned boat. He is grilling half a dozen sardines on a skewer over olive wood coals.
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Café And Macarons In La Ville-Lumière
Ahh … Paris, The City of Lights, or La Ville-Lumière if we’re getting fancy. Home to Ladurée and its world-famous macarons. I must say that I…
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Austria: Dirndl Temptation
The Commons is a surprise find in Sydney’s Darlinghurst. It’s a heritage building with sandstone walls, rustic furniture and cheery flowers on the tables….
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Postcard of the Week: Vienna, Austria
You know that Austrian cuisine has come of age when you see the incredible array of products in Julius Meinl, a food store established in Vienna in 1826.
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