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My Ultimate Guide to a Successful Day Trip To France Using P&O Dover to Calais Ferry

Cross Channel / Ferries

My Ultimate Guide to a Successful Day Trip To France Using P&O Dover to Calais Ferry

…is very good on timings. I strongly recommend them. Watch the Weather The English Channel can be quite rough and have strong winds. A day trip in middle of summer is the best option as it will usually be sunny and the sea calm. In winter, especially, it can be less predictable. If there are high winds not only can the sea be rough, but also often ferry services will need to be cancelled as too hard for them to dock. So make sure you watch the wea…

Things to do in Paris France. My ultimate travel guide for visitors

Destinations / France / Paris

Things to do in Paris France. My ultimate travel guide for visitors

…s also good. The best is Fat Tire Bike Tours who have guided bike tours in English. They run up until only about the middle of December. You meet at the Eiffel Tower‑there’s a special yellow sign. The website for that is http://fattirebiketours.com/paris Walking Tours: If you’re really feeling energetic, there are also walking tours. The best one of those are rub by http://www.paris-walks.com. They have English tours around the different neighborh…

Kent Seaside towns: Margate, Ramsgate & Broadstairs. Potential still to come?

broadstairs / england / kent / margate / ramsgate / travel / UK

Kent Seaside towns: Margate, Ramsgate & Broadstairs. Potential still to come?

…l. Increasingly, some of the cruise lines also use it as a departure port. English seaside towns overall tend to be disappointing. As they have never really found a way to recover from the hammering they took when affordable package holidays, and then low cost flights, made travelling to Europe and guaranteed sunny and warm weather. The problem with taking a summer holiday in England is that the weather is unpredictable. You can get glorious hot a…

Singapore

Singapore: My guide and top 10 tips on things to do

…ough everybody speaks English incredibly well. The official languages are: English, Malay, Mandarin Chinese, and Tamil. Singapore is very rated as the one of the most business friendly countries in the world. It’s the location of many multinational head offices for the Asia area. It has low tax, and because people speak English, it makes it very easy for ex pats to settle in. What are my top tips for visiting Singapore? #1 Best time to visit Prett…

LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE, ENGLAND. What can I say….

Attraction review / Attraction Video / england / UK

LUDLOW, SHROPSHIRE, ENGLAND. What can I say….

…efences against Welsh invasions. Over its time some of the famous names of English history have lived there, including Edward V, Prince Arthur and Mary Tudor (Queen of England) who would winter there. It is a mix of centuries of buildings from Norman, Medieval and Tudor. It was finally abandoned in the late 17th century, and eventually in 1811 the ruins were bought by the Earl of Powis from the Crown. The family still own them. The town of Ludlow,…

Hilton Arc De Triomphe Hotel Paris France: Video, reviews and more

France / Hilton / Hotel Review / Hotel Room Video / Paris / Tips for Travellers / travel

Hilton Arc De Triomphe Hotel Paris France: Video, reviews and more

…channels, especially for English speakers – though there are actually more english channels if you flick through the channels than rely on those listed via the menu as english language (there are BBC1, BBC2, CBBC for example also available but not listed). The breakfast is a really good spread but costs 22 Euros if you not got it in your rate. But the service is fast and very friendly. In the evening the restaurant, which is very large, serves a g…

French Riviera

Travel to French Riviera In Winter: Nice, Cannes, Monte Carlo, Antibes

…would go and summer in Nice, escaping out into the beautiful sunshine. The English aristocracy took on Nice and so you’ll find quite a lot of English touches to it. Within Nice, to be honest, there’s not a lot to do. There is the standard hop-on hop-off bus tour to go on. Though I’m not actually recommending it as there’s not a huge amount of stuff to see. I think you can just do it yourself through ambling around! There are some museums. Probably…

Holland / Rotterdam

Rotterdam Must See Attractions. My Tips for Travellers

…ful English. It’s immaculate. In fact, it’s almost embarrassing even as an English speaker, just how well the Dutch people speak English. My Tips for Travellers on Rotterdam Must See Attractions: Getting There Being such an important industrial and port centre, getting to Rotterdam is relatively simple and easy. It’s well served by air and trains. You can also get there on cruise ships. Ships dock centrally right by the Erasmus Bridge and you can…

travel podcast

Tips for Travellers Podcast 146: Shanghai China Tips

…s – ticket machines coins. Car hire not recommended even though signs have English General Tips English often understood in tourist places. Safe but can be hassled a lot by vendors. Many attractions close at 4 or 4:30pm. Good tourist maps and leaflets in hotels and information centre Must Do: Pudong Oriental Pearl TV Tower- Shanghai World Finance Centre – 100th floor observation tower – including glass floor looking down 100 floors Jin Mao Tower –…

travel podcast

Taipei Taiwan (Revisited) – Tips For Travellers Podcast #231

…Fung Restaurant (my notes) Resources: Taipei City Government site: http://english.gov.taipei Taipei Metro: http://english.metro.taipei You Bikes: https://taipei.youbike.com.tw/en/index.php My photographs of Taipei and the sites mentioned above This episode is supported by DK Eyewitness Travel Guides (USA listeners) (UK listeners) After listening to the podcast and have any thoughts please leave a comment on Tipsfortravellers.com/podcast, email me…

Langkawi Malaysia water taxi

Asia

10 Must-See Langkawi Sights and other Tips For Travellers

…h is very well understood and spoken. The Malaysian school system includes English lessons, and you will find many of the signs are in English although Malay is the official language. Toilet facilities are not great and in some the some tourist areas they’re not even available. For example even on some of the island beaches that I went to, there were signs warning there were no public toilets. There are facilities in some of the shopping malls and…