Travel Guide: 24 hours in Vienna, Austria
When drag queen Conchita Wurst won the Eurovision song content for Austria in 2014, it put its capital into the limelight as the host for 2015. For a week in…
Travel Guide: 24 hours in Buffalo, New York State
The Buffalo-Niagara Falls Metropolitan Area covers two counties – Erie and Niagara – in Western New York, with a population of some 1,135,500 people. I chose to spend 24 hours…
24 hours in Vancouver, Canada
Vancouver is a vibrant west coast Canadian city, dominated by glimmering high rise buildings and surrounded by mighty mountains. It’s home to the legendary Vancouver Canucks hockey team, is a…
Travel Guide: 24 hours in Granada, Spain
Standing defiantly at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the city of Granada is a heady 738m above sea level, but just a mere hour’s drive from the Mediterranean…
Travel Guide: 24 Hours in Andorra
If you have never been to Andorra, and perhaps can’t even place it on a map, you’ve missed a trick. It’s time to improve your geography, and to add another…
Travel Guide: 24 hours in Moscow
The name Moscow is used synonymously with the Kremlin and Vladimir Putin, yet the city is so much more than a political city and has plenty to offer visitors. The…
Travel Guide: 24 Hours in Munich
Munich, home to the famous beer festival Oktoberfest (which despite the name is held in September), is the third largest city in Germany, and the capital of Bavaria, Germany’s biggest…
Travel Guide: 72 Hours in Rome
Day one My first morning in Rome and I could delay the inevitable no longer. The zebra crossing at Piazza del Popolo, at the top end of the Via del…
24 hours in Copenhagen, Denmark
Copenhagen offers a city break without the commotion of Europe’s big cities and with a philosophy of “not too much, not too little”. Couple that with the elegance of old…
Travel Guide: A whirlwind visit to Cappadocia, Turkey
One could spend weeks exploring Cappadocia, but most people allot just a few short days here on their holiday.