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TrustedPlaces offers restaurant bookings via TopTable
Travel website TrustedPlaces has today announced a partnership with TopTable that enables its users to book at 3,000 restaurants across Europe. TrustedPlaces is a local reviews community website, where users can discover restaurants, bars, hotels, cafes and more - all recommended by real people.
Multi cultural aspects of the First World War
It’s hard to picture a landscape made up of diverse ethnic groups, cultures and nationalities on the battlefields of Flanders during the First World War. It is little known that in fact, over fifty diverse multi cultures, hailing from far flung places of the world played important and invaluable assistance to their colonial rulers during this time.
Bandstand fans have their say
With more than 27,000 people turning out for the Bandstand concert season last year, friends and fans of Eastbourne Bandstand are being asked to give their views in 2008 in the venue’s biggest ever survey.
Are prices set to rocket for holidaymakers in Malta and Cyprus?
The eurozone got bigger this week as two of the most popular destinations – Malta and Cyprus - joined Europe’s currency club.
Head to New York State in 2008!
Looking for inspiration for your next holiday? A fortnight bumming around on a beach is just not your thing? You want shopping, great food, architecture, culture, skiing, golf, wine tours, nature, adventure, romance, scenery? Then visit Nylovesyou.co.uk or see below for 10 reasons to extend your trip to New York City and explore what the State of New York has to offer.
Resolve to take a volunteering holiday in 2008
For travellers whose New Year resolutions include vowing to help others Hands Up Holidays is offering a range of new volunteering tours for 2008. Hands Up Holidays, the operator who believes that travel can make a positive difference, is offering two new volunteering tours for 2008.
Visitors seeing double with North East England’s latest TV Ad
2008 will see the launch of two new TV adverts promoting North East England. Following the success of last year’s campaign, two brand new commercials have been filmed that will be broadcast for the first time on 7th January.
Top 10 reasons to visit the Valencia region in 2008
If you are looking for inspiration for your next holiday, have a look on the Valencia Region’s website Comunitatvalenciana.com. To whet your appetite, here are the top ten reasons why you should visit Valencia in 2008.
Forget flowers and chocolates this Valentine’s
Tired of the humdrum Valentine tradition of flowers and chocolates? With over 180 exciting tours to Africa, Acacia Adventure Holidays dares couples to break out of the mould and step into the heart of wilderness.
Pembrokeshire - A greener destination
Pembrokeshire, an unspoilt corner of south west Wales, is encouraging visitors to go green on holiday and experience the county’s concepts of ‘slow tourism’ and ‘slow food’ savouring everything it has to offer at a gentler pace. Britain’s smallest city, St Davids is hoping to become the first carbon neutral city in the world and opening this summer will be Bluestone, a 500-acre ‘Welsh village’ within the National Park with sustainable timber lodges plus leisure facilities powered by locally grown biomass crops.
Valentine adventures with a Wild West twist
“We love because it’s the only true adventure,” wrote the poet Nikki Giovanni. And it’s true: the act of loving is often wild and exciting, and pursued headlong with immense passion. This Valentines, couples may embark on another adventure in the Wild West: as Ranch Rider features a host of romantic stays at cosy ranches in the US, allowing couples to share thrilling moments that will last a lifetime.
Rail travel up as more Brits take train to Europe
Fed up with flying? And nervous of tackling foreign roads? You’re not alone. Figures from Keycamp suggest that more of us are letting the train take the strain and opting to travel to our summer camping holiday destination by rail – indeed, rail bookings with the self-catering specialist for 2008 have already exceeded those for the whole of 2007.
Follow in the footsteps of Sense & Sensibility heroines
Stay in a smart 17th century cottage at Hartland and follow in the footsteps of Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility heroines as featured in the current BBC1 adaptation, which was filmed largely on the Hartland Abbey estate, North Devon.
Discover Friuli Venezia Giulia
When Fabio Capello was appointed as the new England football manager his biography was published on many newspapers and his place of birth was simply referred to as a small village in the north east of Italy. This small village is actually Pieris, near the city of Gorizia and the region is Friuli Venezia Giulia, an area still undiscovered for many British tourists.
British navigator celebrates European first in Marigot Bay
The Marina at Marigot Bay, on the west coast of St Lucia, was the scene of celebration and emotion on New Year’s Day when British navigator Tristan Gooley became the first European to have both flown and sailed single-handed across the Atlantic.