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5 Places to Get Away from the hurly burly
Where do you recommend I visit? Where can I get away from it all? What’s your favourite place in the UK? What’s the quirkiest place you’ve ever been to? These are just some of the questions I get...
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The marvellously quirky Art Deco Midland Hotel
The Midland Hotel glitters with Art Deco design. Opened in 1933, it is on the site of a much older hotel, built in the 1840s when the railways first started bringing holidaymakers to the seaside resort...
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Marvellous Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
In the first of our ‘World Travel Blogger’ series of articles, American Dr Jessie Voigts, of Wandering Educators, shares her love of travel and art with a look at a very unusual family attraction in...
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Eric Morecambe lives on in the seaside town he called his own …
There is something wonderfully compelling about the statue of Eric Morecambe on the promenade overlooking Morecambe Bay in Lancashire … Virtually everyone who sees it has to pose for their photo in...
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The quirkilicious Angel of the North
As I zoomed up the M1 my mind was on the coming weekend. I was going to the Traverse Bloggers Conference in Newcastle and hoping for an enjoyable and informative time. Musing on the rapid changes seen...
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Quirky Travel Photo: Venus and Cupid on Morecambe Bay
At the end of Morecambe Bay heading towards Carnforth there’s a delightful sculpture beside the promenade. A sturdy, naked female seated on the grass appears to be swinging a small figure around in...
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On top of the world at the Kirkenes Snow Hotel
“One grey morning the first snow began to fall in the Valley of the Moomins, It fell softly and quietly and in a few hours everything was white.” Opening lines of ‘Finn Family Moomintroll’. And snow...
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What is cultural tourism?
Blackwell Arts and Crafts House Cultural tourism (or culture tourism) A subset of tourism concerned with a country or region’s culture, specifically the lifestyle of the people in those geographical...
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A Burnley weekend with a Lancashire twist
If you think of a ‘girlie weekend-away’ where do you imagine going? Maybe a luxury spa break in a country house hotel? Or a city break with lots of shopping and eating out? Possibly a quick jaunt off...
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Quirky Travel Photo: the ‘Great Men’ of Milan at Casa degli Omenoni
The ‘Great Men’ of Casa degli Omenoni Tucked away in a little backstreet near Il Duomo, Milan’s famous Cathedral, is Clubino, an exclusive gentlemen’s club. Historically it is better known,...
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5 Places to Get Away from the hurly burly
Where do you recommend I visit? Where can I get away from it all? What’s your favourite place in the UK? What’s the quirkiest place you’ve ever been to? These are just some of the questions I get...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The marvellously quirky Art Deco Midland Hotel
The Midland Hotel glitters with Art Deco design. Opened in 1933, it is on the site of a much older hotel, built in the 1840s when the railways first started bringing holidaymakers to the seaside resort...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Marvellous Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
In the first of our ‘World Travel Blogger’ series of articles, American Dr Jessie Voigts, of Wandering Educators, shares her love of travel and art with a look at a very unusual family attraction in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Eric Morecambe lives on in the seaside town he called his own …
There is something wonderfully compelling about the statue of Eric Morecambe on the promenade overlooking Morecambe Bay in Lancashire … Virtually everyone who sees it has to pose for their photo in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The quirkilicious Angel of the North
As I zoomed up the M1 my mind was on the coming weekend. I was going to the Traverse Bloggers Conference in Newcastle and hoping for an enjoyable and informative time. Musing on the rapid changes seen...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quirky Travel Photo: Venus and Cupid on Morecambe Bay
At the end of Morecambe Bay heading towards Carnforth there’s a delightful sculpture beside the promenade. A sturdy, naked female seated on the grass appears to be swinging a small figure around in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On top of the world at the Kirkenes Snow Hotel
“One grey morning the first snow began to fall in the Valley of the Moomins, It fell softly and quietly and in a few hours everything was white.” Opening lines of ‘Finn Family Moomintroll’. And snow...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What is cultural tourism?
Blackwell Arts and Crafts House Cultural tourism (or culture tourism) A subset of tourism concerned with a country or region’s culture, specifically the lifestyle of the people in those geographical...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Burnley weekend with a Lancashire twist
If you think of a ‘girlie weekend-away’ where do you imagine going? Maybe a luxury spa break in a country house hotel? Or a city break with lots of shopping and eating out? Possibly a quick jaunt off...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Quirky Travel Photo: the ‘Great Men’ of Milan at Casa degli Omenoni
The ‘Great Men’ of Casa degli Omenoni Tucked away in a little backstreet near Il Duomo, Milan’s famous Cathedral, is Clubino, an exclusive gentlemen’s club. Historically it is better known,...
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