Posts Tagged ‘ Georgia ’

The fact that the story of Georgian viticulture can now be traced back some 8,000 years is going to be of significance as it will stimulate sales of Georgian wines and tourism.

Award-winning journalist and author, Nick Kontis, shares his travel highs and lows with Just About Travel

Tom Hall, editorial director at Lonely Planet – the world’s largest travel guide book publisher – on Italy, Iran and why the Western Isles of Scotland should feature on any travel itinerary

Savannah – a Southern belle of a city and the backdrop for John Berendt’s book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – will steal your heart says Kaye Holland

Here Jacki Ueng – a travel blogger who focuses on solo women travelling, backpacking off the beaten path with special interests in developing countries – shares her travel highs and lows with Just About Travel readers

Reminding us that APD has been reduced from April 1st, Adrian looks at where we have visited in greater numbers and condems the fact that train disruption hits day-trippers and holidaymakers at one of the busiest holiday periods of the year.

After years in the second rank of American destinations, Atlanta is a city on the move says Kaye Holland

The CD-Traveller team share their favourite 2012 travel experiences and look at the top spots for 2013

CD-Traveller tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world. This month Bhutan and the Black Sea resort of Batuni get the thumbs up, but readers are advised to avoid the Big Apple’s JFK airport

Patricia Cleveland-Peck is seduced by Savannah – arguably the most enchanting city on America’s Atlantic coast

Patricia Cleveland-Peck is seduced by Savannah – arguably the most enchanting city on America’s Atlantic coast

The CD-Traveller team share their top 2011 travel experiences and look at the top spots for 2012

For those of you who didn’t recognise the flag underneath our logo in yesterday’s e-letter or on this page, it is the flag of Georgia.
Why Georgia?
Because like England their patron saint is St George.

You might remember that as many of our piers as possible were encouraged to hold parties last March, to celebrate British Tourism Week. Coming on top of the disastrous fire on Hastings Pier, it helped to remind us of the role piers have played in our seaside past

For the final part of his visit to Georgia, Adrian goes to the Black sea resort of Batumi and wonders whether this might be the new Turkey for British and Irish holidaymakers in the future.

In the second of his reports about Georgia, Adrian travels to the mountainous area in the north west of the country called Svaneti.

Adrian begins his tour of Georgia with some background to the country, the hosptality that will bowl you over and the hge changes that are taking place

It is becoming a little difficult to work out whether we are travelling more or not. And if we are, what it means. You might have heard yesterday that the royal wedding caused a dip in our economic growth in the second quarter of the year. As did the tsunami, the Indian summer, the sale of Olympic tickets and probably the fact that I wore blue socks on the day. I would have thought the royal wedding was good for the economy because it encouraged visitors to come into the country and us to travel about over that four day holiday. But what do I know?