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Aug 9th, 2018 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia Cleveland-Peck looks at some of the poets and writers who have taken inspiration from this beautiful Italian lake.
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Catullus’s Grotto, Gargnano, Italy, Lake Garda, Scaliger Castle, Sirmione
Jul 22nd, 2018 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia visits Il Vittoriale degli Italiani (The Shrine of Italian Victories) on Lake Garda in Italy
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Gabrielle D’Annunzio, Il Vittoriale degli Italiani, Italy, Lake Garda, Prioria
Apr 18th, 2018 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia completes her river journey in Vietnam by cruising along the Red River
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Tags: Bat Tang, Duong Lam, Hang Lo Temple, Hanoi, Pandaw Cruise Company, Phat Diem, Red River, Sai Son, Vietnam
Apr 15th, 2018 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia continues her river journey in Vietnam by travelling from Halong Bay to the Red River in the north by way of five smaller rivers.
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Tags: Dien Xa, Halong Bay, Halong Island, Pandaw, Red River, Tam Coc, Thanh Ha, Vietnam
Apr 12th, 2018 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia begins her three part tour of cruising Vietnam on a riverboat by crusing in one of the country’s top destinations – Halong Bay
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Tags: Cat Ba National Park, Halong Bay, Pandaw Cruise Company, Vietnam
Dec 20th, 2017 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia looks at Beau Double Monsieur le Marquis, an exhibition by the hard to categorise Sophie Calle and Serena Carone at La Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature in Paris and which many critics believe to be the must-see show in France.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Beau Double Monsieur le Marquis, La Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Serena Carone, Sophie Calle
Apr 24th, 2017 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia Cleveland-Peck investigates one of the necessary hazards of a travel writer and holidaymaker’s life.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on The shock of the loo
Tags: hotel toilets, public toilets
Mar 24th, 2017 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia and Dennis Cleveland-Peck enjoy following part of the Wexford Garden Trail.
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Tags: Colclough, Ireland, Kilmokea, Tintern Abbey, Wexford, Woodville
Feb 16th, 2017 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia and Dennis Cleveland-Peck visit one of the neighbourhoods of Rome – Trastevere – and find that there is a lot this small part of Rome has to offer.
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Tags: Expo Palazzo Velli, Italy, L’Ospedale Nuova Regina Margherita, Mercato San Cosimato, Museo di Rome in Trastevere, Orto Botanico, Palazzo Corsini, Rome, Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Sant’Andrea de Scaphis., Trastevere, Villa Farnesina
Oct 12th, 2016 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia and Dennis Cleveland-Peck complete their exploration of Ireland’s ancient east and reaches New Ross.
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Tags: County Wexford, Daphne Castle, Dunbrody Famine Ship, Hook Lighthouse, Kennedy Homestead, Loftus Hall, New Ross, Rothe House, The Ros Tapestry, The Tholsel
Sep 24th, 2016 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia Cleveland-peck explores Ireland’s ancient east and starts in Enniscorthy.
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Comments Off on Enniscorthy: Rebellion and Relaxation
Tags: Athanaeum -Enniscorthy, Enniscorthy, Enniscorthy Castle, Heritage Tours -Wexford, Ireland, National 1798 Visitor Centre., St Aidan's Cathedral
Apr 5th, 2016 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia and Dennis Cleveland-Peck find a peaceful alternative to the hurly-burly of Venice – Giudecca..
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Giudecca, Il Redentore, Italy, Venice, Zitelle Church
Jul 23rd, 2015 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia and Dennis Cleveland-Peck take a trip out of Berlin and discover a fairy tale castle on a tiny island – Pfaueninsel
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Tags: Berlin, Peacock Island, Pfaueninsel
May 10th, 2015 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Particia achieves a fantasy and holidays on her “own” island in Finland’s Åland archipelago.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Silverskär and Sviskär: Life on your own private island
Tags: Åland archipelago, Finland, Silverskär, Sviskär
Nov 15th, 2014 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia and Dennis Cleveland-Peck explore the food scene in Finland’s charming capital as the guests of Visit Finland
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Flavours of Helsinki
Tags: Hans Välimäki, Helsinki, Old Market Hall, Ravintola Savoy, Spis, Visit Finland
Oct 30th, 2014 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
As Mike Leigh’s new film about Turner opens tomorrow, Patricia and Dennis Cleveland-Peck discover there is more to Margate than Turner and sands.
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Tags: Dreamland Amusement Park, Margate, Mr Turner, Shell Grotto, Turner Contemporary, Turner Contemporary Art Gallery
Sep 8th, 2014 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Most travellers to the Big Apple are looking for all that is new and trendy, Patricia & Dennis Cleveland-Peck however, went in quest of the city’s historic heritage.
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Tags: Delmonicos Restaurant, Governor’s Island, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Merchant’s House, Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York, Wyckhoff Farmhouse
Aug 21st, 2014 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia heads for La Réunion, an island of scents, spices and flowers tucked away in the Indian Ocean.
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Tags: France, La Réunion
Jun 26th, 2014 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia visits the Manor House, Hemingford Grey, south east of Huntingdon which is, reputedly, the oldest occupied house in the UK.
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Tags: Green Knowe, Lucy Boston, Manor House Hemingford Grey
Apr 21st, 2014 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Grenada Arts Council. Patricia Cleveland-Peck investigates the very vibrant art scene in this lovely Caribbean island
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Art in Grenada: a lasting souvenir
Tags: Canute Caliste, Carriacou, Doliver Morain, Grenada, St George's
Feb 25th, 2014 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia Cleveland-Peck achieves a long-held ambition to visit the Spanish Riding School in Vienna and has the additional treat of a trip to the Stud Farm in Styria where the foals are born.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Austria’s wonderful white horses
Tags: Austria, Lippizaner, Piber, Spanish Riding School, Vienna
Jan 23rd, 2014 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia finds not only plenty of fascinating historical sites on the other side of the pond but a magical little garden out in the ocean- about which a film has just been made.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on The homes of New Hampshire
Tags: Celia Thaxter, Celia Thaxter’s Garden, Isles of Shoals, Moffat-Ladd House, New Hampshire, Portsmouth, Puddle Dock, Shaker Village, Shapiro House, Strawbery Banke Museum, University of New Hampshire
Jul 20th, 2013 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia recalls meeting some of the survivors of the Suusex Plan, a little-known saga of WWII which happened in Northern France and which is commemorated in a small museum in Alsace
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Tags: Alsace, Hochfelden, La Wantzenau, Musée du Pays de la Zorn, Sussex plan
Jul 16th, 2013 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia visits Languedoc-Roussillon and decides that the the countryside and the food is somewhere to return to time and time again.
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Comments Off on Languedoc-Roussillon: a place to remember
Tags: France, Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, Nimes
Jun 14th, 2013 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
For centuries cherry blossom time has been celebrated in Japan, so it was with excitement that I found myself bound for Kyoto, cultural centre of Japan. It is great gardens for which Kyoto is famous and the first anyone wants to see the Zen dry garden Ryoan-ji.
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Comments Off on Spring in Kyoto
Tags: Daitoku-ji, Garden of the Moon at Jōju-in, Japan, Kyoto, Ryoan-ji, Ryokan Hiiragiya
May 7th, 2013 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Patricia Cleveland-Peck gazes in wonder at Isola Bella, a baroque garden shaped like a ship floating on the lake, is entranced by Isola Madre, a romantic garden full of flowers and enjoys a lunch of lake fish on Fisherman’s Island
Posted in Travel destinations, Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on The Borromean Isles: magical gardens on Italy’s Lake Maggiore
Tags: Baveno, Intra, Isola Bella, Isola dei Pescatori, Isola Madre, Italy, Lake Maggiore, Pallanza, Stresa, The Borromean Isles
Jan 4th, 2013 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Palermo, a strange and heady mixture of beauty and neglect, is an addictive city
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Comments Off on Palermo: a destination to feed the senses
Tags: Carthaginians, Europe, Godfather 111, Oratorio del Rosario, Palermo, Salvatore Cappello, Sicily
Dec 27th, 2012 |
By Patricia Cleveland-Peck
Helsingborg is a charming corner of Sweden, says Patricia Cleveland Peck
Posted in Travel destinations, Travel rumblings, Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Copenhagen, Denmark, Helsingborg, Scandinavia, Sweden