We talk a lot about walking and hiking while on holiday, but not everyone has the ability or inclination to walk a great distance. So here we look at a few options for enjoying driving and the great scenery that goes with it. We could fill a book with all the great driving roads that are available (I'm sure someone already has) so this is just a taster to get you thinking.
Gorge: noun. A deep narrow valley with steep sides, formed by a river or stream cutting through hard rock. Gorges are spectacular geographical features that are ever-popular with visitors. Here are just a few.
The Canaries have long held a reputation as the ideal winter holiday spot within easy reach of northern Europe. And so it proved when we decided to turn our backs on miserable weather and Christmas shopping and indulge ourselves with some sunshine and good food on Tenerife.
My first visit to the Lake District fulfilled all my expectations, and more. What had I envisaged? Expansive lakes, of course, and wilderness, but I hadn’t foreseen it would be as replete with endearing villages and a sense of society as I found it to be.
Yes, it's a deliberate pun. Getting to the top of any of these mountains will certainly leave you gasping, but just to view them from nearby will also take your breath away.
We were distressed to learn of the devastation caused on Union Island by Hurricane Beryl. We enjoyed our best ever holiday there, where we found not just wonderful natural beauty but charming, friendly, genuine people. We would urge anyone who has enjoyed a holiday in the Caribbean to make a donation here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-the-union-island-population-recover-from-the-hurricane.
All manner of minerals have been mined in Britain, and that industrial legacy has left its mark in many places. Softened and weathered by the passage of time the old mining sites are now places of rugged beauty as well as providing an insight into how our forebears lived and worked.
The Eco Village Finca de Arrieta is such a brilliant idea that we wonder why it hasn't been copied elsewhere. et in rural surroundings only 300 metres from the beach of Arrieta, it offers diverse self-catering holiday options ranging from stone-built villas and a farmhouse to authentic Mongolian yurts.
Terms such as ‘best-kept secret’ or ‘hidden gem’ in tourism seem somewhat ironic, as the very fact that someone has elected to write about such a place indicates either that it has garnered enough plaudits to be written or talked about before, or at the very least that they are about to let the cat out of the bag.
Exmoor is one of Britain's smallest national parks, but none the worse for that! Straddling North Devon and west Somerset and bordering the Bristol Channel, it has scenery, wildlife and interest in abundance.
