Travel writer publishes e-book on the many and varied attractions in Britain’s towns and cities. Click here. Awaydays in Britain – spoilt for choice. By Gareth Huw Davies. Published by Amazon for $.99. The work contains 29 sections, on towns, cites and a few counties mainly in England, with some entries too from Wales and Scotland…. Continue reading
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Twitter tourism – can social media beat the guidebooks?
Twitter is already a serious alternative to the conventional news media. You can’t say much in 140 characters, and you can impart important information very quickly, and also guide people to further reading. This is a simple example of the former. Say I arrive at Euston station and find a big throng of people… Continue reading →
Your car awaits – pick-me up for hard times
What’s the single place tourists most want to escape from the course of a holiday abroad? Why of course, it’s the airport terminal after the return flight. And which journey do they dislike the most, in the course of their trip? You guessed, the one that gets them home from the airport, when they aren’t… Continue reading →
To know or not to know–that's the holiday question.
You are on holiday in a remote Nepalese village when you spot an English-language newspaper with a headline something along the lines of: “London in flames. Rioters trash capital.” What do you do? Perpetuate that rare state of bliss, where you are so far from home, so cut free from the working world, and walk… Continue reading →
New galleries promotes Wales to art premiership
I called in at the new National Museum of Art in Cardiff this week and wondered how it might connect with the world outside, or if it was just a Welsh metropolitan vanity project After all, who builds six new galleries in these straitened times, then opens them up to the public for nothing? My answer… Continue reading →
Starring roles for seaside sites in Wales
What a triumph for Welsh topography. The two biggest things on our screens at the moment, Harry Potter in the cinema, and Torchwood on our TVs, both feature tranquil seashore hide-outs where the main characters seek sanctuary from some seriously worrying threat. And they’re both in the principality…. Continue reading →