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Singapore

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

…is known for duty free goods with technology and fashion being too of most popular categories travellers focus on. There’s a couple of key areas to explore. Orchard Road is the main road with many impressive shops and another popular destination is Marina Bay, which is a recently new development. Most months of the year there is some kind of big shopping event. InMarch and April is the Fashion Festival. May to July has the Great Singapore Sale”. T…

London

Attraction review / Attraction Video / London / Tips for Travellers / travel / UK

London

…me you have. Dotted around the museum are some eating places with the most popular the ones in the large hall / courtyard when you enter. There are a number of different shops on the ground floor, some selling just postcards through to one that sells resin full size statutes for £10000, and other pricey replicas and gifts. I was (as you can tell) very impressed and had a great time. I recommend watching the 6 minute video tour on the posting or on…

Hotel Pentelikon (Athens, Greece) Review and Video

Athens / Greece / Hotel Review / Hotel Room Video

Hotel Pentelikon (Athens, Greece) Review and Video

…of sculpture of tomatoes, onions and feta cheese. The restaurants are very popular and my Greek colleagues told me that they are especially popular with politicians and other dignitaries, and it is not unusual to have policemen hanging around as a result.There are 3 buildings of accommodation: the original building plus 2 new ones that were built just before the 2004 Olympics.I stayed in what they call “Building 2” which is where they have their “…

Victoria Falls, Livingstone, Zambia

Attraction review / victoria falls / zambia

Victoria Falls, Livingstone, Zambia

…odiles) and get to see the Zimbabwe side as well. – Game Drives. These are popular but best really to go on an actual safari as part of a longer trip as although you can see most game it is not really the best area to see game in. In the Sun International complex you see zebra, giraffe, baboons, monkeys and impala that roam the grounds. – Extreme Sports, like white water rafting and high speed boats on the river are popular in the dry season Victo…

Cape Town Restaurant: Beleza Obrigado

Cape Town / restaurant review / restaurants / South Africa

Cape Town Restaurant: Beleza Obrigado

…you head up the hill towards the Cable Car Station, this is a strange but popular restaurant. The decor is distinctly “homemade” where someone was happy to tempt fate and get 7 years of bad luck repeatedly by smashing mirrors to create many mosaics of broken glass. The decor and tables are quite retro, and could be and would be more trendy if it did not look quite as homemade as it does – as whoever had the idea did have a good one. The restauran…

Brazil / Destinations / Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo Things To Do When Visiting (Part 2)

…e most cost effective option. (4) CITY VIEWS It seems that one of the most popular and most recommended to me sight seeing attractions (even the official Sao Paulo city site has this as one of the top things to do) is to go and look at a view of the city, especially at night. I am not sure if this is because there is not a lot of tourist fare on the city as it is really more of a commercial centre, but it was a very consistent recommendation. Prob…

Athens, Greece: Part 1 Hotel Pentelikon Review & Video

Athens / Greece / Hotel Review / Hotel Room Video

Athens, Greece: Part 1 Hotel Pentelikon Review & Video

…of sculpture of tomatoes, onions and feta cheese. The restaurants are very popular and my Greek colleagues told me that they are especially popular with politicians and other dignitaries, and it is not unusual to have policemen hanging around as a result.There are 3 buildings of accommodation: the original building plus 2 new ones that were built just before the 2004 Olympics.I stayed in what they call “Building 2” which is where they have their “…

Destinations / Spain

Why Girona Costa Brava Is Worth Travelling From Barcelona To Visit

…amatically since Ryanair started to use it as a hub, and their flights are popular and packed. While Ryanair like to use the Girona Barcelona name, it is really known more formally as the Girona Costa Brava airport, and is the gateway to the region which spreads from here spanning from rocky interiors to the startlingly beautiful coastline. Girona is proudly Catalan, and shows it. Girona is within the Catalan region of Spain. This is a rich provin…

Genoa

Genoa Italy. City of Rich Maritime, Cruising & Ship Building Heritage

…nd also runs the Aida German and Ibero Spanish cruise operations. Busy and popular port, with almost 300 cruise ships visiting Genoa every year. MSC Cruise Ships docked in Genoa Italy Genoa is a busy port with almost 300 cruise ships visiting each year, along with many more passenger ferries and yachts arriving. It is reported that around 4,000 passenger carrying vessels arrive every year at the port. Genoa is used by many cruise lines as an embar…

Cruise Ship / Cunard / transportation

Cunard Line History: 10 Key Events That Define This Iconic Cruise Line

…ew decades. These companies grew out of a base in Miami as cruising became popular again, after the collapse of the business in the 1970s when jet liners wiped out most of the established cruise and liner companies. Cunard’s roots can be traced back to 1839 when Samuel Cunard was granted the contract to move mail between the UK and the United States. For 3 decades after the service started it had the fastest ships crossing the Atlantic. It laid th…

Cruise Ship / Cunard / Journeys / Queen Mary 2 / Transatlantic Crossing / transportation

Transatlantic Crossing Observations on the Queen Mary 2: The Passengers. Rich? Famous? Fabulous?

…re Christmas is very important as the Queen Mary 2 has an established, and popular, tradition of travelling from New York to the Caribbean for Christmas and New Year. A trip that I know they had very little problems selling, and it is a lucrative 2 weeks with premium fares on the berths. Unlike the images that the “Titanic” theme throws up of the ship packed with the rich and fabulous, or the brochures of youthful beautiful people, most people I s…