Posts Tagged ‘ Denmark ’

Light displays at home and abroad, busking, skiing and the Danish uber restaurant, Noma, feature in this column of snippets.

Dwarves, Chagall, the popularity of the Mexican resort of Puetra Vallarta and WWI are some of the things that attracted Adrian’s attention this week.

Australian travel writer and author, Campbell Jefferys, shares his travel highs and lows with Just About Travel

Denmark is the home of Noma, the restaurant that has been named best in the world for four of the last six years.

A stay in your own castle, airline disruption in Germany and Indonesia are a few of the things that catch Adrian’s eye this week.

Just About Travel reveals what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world right now

Take Aarhus, Denmark’s second largest city, for example. Danes have celebrated Christmas over the centuries at the award-winning open-air Den Gamle By.

The Danes have long been fond of exploring this 3,600 kilometre touring route through their own country as it changes from picturesque, rolling scenery of unspoiled farmland to forests and heaths and then mile upon mile of pristine coastline.

Next month, Copenhagen hosts the Eurovision Song Contest. But don’t hold that against it. There are plenty of other things happening in the capital city of Denmark.

Long distance cyclist, Josie Drew, talks travel

For the millions of Britons heading off this summer to holiday destinations around the world, or for those who go on regular weekend breaks to mainland Europe, taking a taxi from the airport to a city centre hotel is usually the most convenient and fastest way to travel

Today is Shrove Tuesday – aka the time to indulge in a pancake or five. Cathrene has some suggestions on how to create the perfect pancake

Anna Maria journeys to Copenhagen and finds that Denmark’s capital of cool delights – even in winter

Helsingborg is a charming corner of Sweden, says Patricia Cleveland Peck

Copenhagen will be a gastronomic hot pot from 24 August to 2 September when the Danish capital celebrates its Nordic culinary heritage during Copenhagen Cooking Festival

Whilst the Olympics are on in London, many countries are taking over shops, markets and buildings to promote their countries so we will consider adding them to our future holiday lists. So if you are coming to – or live in – London here are a few places you might want to consider.

Television programmes can be a powerful force in attracting us to visit destinations linked with those programmes. Highclere House was the backdrop in the successful “Downton Abbey” series and is expected to attracted many more tourists as a result. If that is right, the second series should bolster the appeal for some time to come. The are “Midsummer Murders” tours in Buckinghamshire with lits of demand from visiting Australian visitors as well as Brits. But it isn’t only series that benefit. One-off programmes can also benefit.

With the budget less than a fortnight away the travel trade is boosting its attack on how high APD is and how damaging it could be for jobs and the economy if it stays at its high level. They have been boosted in that one of the few countries in Western Europe to retain such a tax has got rid of it. Ireland has removed it because it was seeing reduced tourism coming into Ireland and fewer air passengers both of which meant the tax was not raising net money but costing the economy instead. Will George Osborne, the Chancellor, take heed?

Each year, Frommer’s (the people who produce travel guidebooks and magazines) poll their readers to see what the destinations for 2010 would be. Primarily American vote for this so it does tend to reflect where Americans holiday but this year it includes the Scilly Isles. It doesn’t really say why they were voted for but just gives a potted tourism pitch. I’m not complaining but sometimes when surveys like this take place it would be nice to know what appeals to readers.

There are lots of reasons to visit the Scillies; the weather, the sandy beaches, the subtropical plants that grow there and, lets face it, the fact that you don’t have to change currency or speak another language. Frommer’s only warning is to book well ahead because accommodation is limited particulary in May when the gig races take place.

So what are the other selections by Frommer?