Archive | September, 2012

A dee-lightful time on Royal Deeside

By on September 28, 2012 in Travel articles

You may not have guessed it from Queen Victoria’s dour and dumpy appearance in her later years, but after the death of her beloved Prince Albert she had one great passion in life: long-distance walking. She was also fond of solitude, and found room for both deep in Scotland’s Cairngorm mountains, where she and Albert […]

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Top Ten Things To Do in St Petersburg

By on September 19, 2012 in Ten Things to Do In.....

Does she never rest? The Luxury Cruise Company’s energetic Jacqui Ridler has compiled another of her very popular “Top Ten Things To Do….” lists – this time for fabulous St Petersburg, Russia. Jacqui points out that while you can always join a ship’s organised tours in St Petersburg, it is exciting to obtain your own […]

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A Brilliant Time in the “City of Diamonds”

By on September 6, 2012 in Travel articles

Known as “the Venice of the North” and “the City of Diamonds”, Amsterdam is also a City of Fun. Romantics might pick Paris, and shopaholics might choose fashion-conscious Rome. But when it comes to choosing a continental city for a holiday during which you just want to let your hair down, there is only one […]

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