Posts Tagged ‘
Stonehenge ’
Dec 18th, 2018 |
By The Editor
There must be attractions that don’t appeal to everybody. Stonehenge and Blackpool Tower could be two of them in which case no amount of clever marketing by the local tourist board would persuade some to travel there.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Eiffel Tower, Stonehenge
Oct 12th, 2018 |
By The Editor
English Heritage is inviting people to join them at the stones on Friday 26 October 2018 and over that weekend for a few days full of celebration and surprises.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Stonehenge is 100
Tags: English Heritage, Sir Cecil Chubb, Stonehenge
Sep 14th, 2018 |
By The Editor
What their comments have done may have substantially helped Salisbury tourism.
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Old Sarum, Salisbury Cathedral, Stonehenge
Jan 14th, 2017 |
By Adrian Lawes
Stonehenge, Club 55, Star Wars and medical assistance abroad compete with children’s attitudes to holidays in Adrian’s column this week. And there is the almost obligatory Southern rail story.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 14th January 2017
Tags: Aberdeen Airport, Arriva Trains Wales, Belfast International Airport, Cardiff Airport, children and holiday decision-making, Club 55, Edinburgh Airport, Ferens Art Gallery, Glasgow Airport, GWR, Hull, Inverness Airport, London City Airport, Los Angeles, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Manchester Airport, Push Doctor, Scotland, skiing, STA Travel, Stansted, Stonehenge, The News Quiz, V-Room lounge, Villa Plus, Virgin Holidays
Sep 5th, 2016 |
By The Editor
Almost every year along comes a survey that shows Britons are less than knowledgeable about major tourist attractions. Another has come along courtesy of holiday comparison website, icelolly.com. Only 6% of people were able to identify all seven modern wonders, with large proportions of Brits missing Christ the Redeemer in Rio, Brazil (60%) and Petra in Jordan. (67%.) When asked about how many wonders they think they had correctly identified, 15% of Brits thought they had spotted 10 out of the 21 wonders and only
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Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on Is Disney World one of the wonders of the world?
Tags: Disney World, Florida, icelolly.com, Kissimmee, Orlando, Petra, seven natural wnders of the world, seven wonders of the world, Stonehenge
Aug 30th, 2016 |
By Kaye Holland
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
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Airbnb, Alabama, Bath, Bulgaria, cycling, Edinburgh, family travel, Georgia, Iran, Isfahan, Istanbul, Italy, London, Lonely Planet, Mashad, Northumberland, oxford, Porto, Portugal, Rome, Shiraz, Stonehenge, Stornoway, Tennessee, Tom Hall, Travel, Tuscany, Uber, UK, Umbria, Wales, York, Yorkshire Dales
Jun 20th, 2016 |
By The Editor
500,000 bone fragments of Welsh ancestors should be returned with the Stonehenge stones so that they can become a shrine to Welsh heritage.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: Mike Parker Pearson, pembrokeshire, Preseli Mountains, Stonehenge
Dec 18th, 2013 |
By The Editor
Today’s the big day. It might be a miserable start with rain and wind but English Heritage’s £27 million visitor centre opens at Stonehenge.
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: English Heritage, National Trust, Stonehenge, Stonehenge Visitor Centre
May 30th, 2013 |
By Adrian Lawes
The title of today’s story is the last line and a bit from a song in Funny Girl, a song made memorable by Barbara Streisand. And that’s how I feel about this week.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on Nobody is gonna rain on my parade
Tags: British Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Stonehenge, strikes, V&A, waeter
Apr 23rd, 2013 |
By The Editor
The world’s largest greenhouses and its best mountain biking routes, a first edition of Shakespeare’s sonnets and Europe’s first international dark sky reserve all help make up VisitEngland’s ‘101 things to do before you go abroad’, revealed today to mark St George’s Day
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Pubs, puffins and punting all make VisitEngland’s bucketlist!
Tags: Big Ben, Cambridgeshire, Europe, Exmoor National Park, Ian Fleming, John Rylands Library, Kent, Lincoln, Newcastle, Nottingham, St George\'s Day, Stonehenge, The Eden Project, The Shard, UNESCO
Jan 5th, 2013 |
By The Editor
From parties at The Palace and Regency balls to week-long walks and ground-breaking hotels, we look at what’s in store for 2013
Posted in Travel destinations, Travel news, Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on 2013: the party continues
Tags: Benjamin Britten, Chelsea, Diamond Jubilee, Dorset, Downtown Abbey, Glastonbury, Hampshire, Heckfield Place, Highclere Castle, Isle of Wight, Jane Austen, Jurassic Park, London, Mary Rose Musuem, National Trust, Olympic Games, Portsmouth, Shangri-La The Shard, Stonehenge, Studland Bay, The Pig on the Beach, The Queen, Upstairs Downstairs, Yorkshire
Oct 27th, 2012 |
By The Editor
Kids are flocking to museums this half term break in favour of thrill seeking attractions
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Young Britons vote Big Ben as their top British landmark
Tags: Big Ben, Blackpool Tower, Buckingham Palace, Edinburgh Castle, Great Britain, Hadrian's Wall, half term, Stonehenge, The Tower of London
Dec 7th, 2011 |
By The Editor
Kew Gardens have been voted the top visitor attraction in Britain at the British Airways magazine travel awards.
Posted in Travel news, Travel rumblings |
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Tags: British Airways, Buckingham Palace, Janet Street-Porter, Kew Gardens, London Eye, Seven Sisters, Stonehenge, Tate Modern, Windsor Castle
Jun 21st, 2010 |
By Cathrene Rowell
Once again, I am going to relate what I am learning in my Geology studies to today: the Summer Solstice.
As you might remember from your science classes at school, our planet takes just over 365 days to orbit the Sun, a process upon which our calendar year is based. The Earth’s axis is tilted at an angle of 23.5 degrees: different parts of the Earth receive varying amounts of sunlight during the year, giving us our four seasons. The Summer Solstice, on the 21st June, represents the longest day of the year.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: Anglesey, Cheshire, snowdonia, Stonehenge, summer solstice
Oct 27th, 2009 |
By The Editor
The hotel chain Travelodge has asked 2500 8-15 year olds what they rate as Britain’s most iconic landmarks and it threw up some answers I didn’t expect. The winner was Stonehenge and maybe that’s not surprising since just about everyone can imagine what it looks like. Second choice was Hadrian’s Wall and then came the London Eye.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: Hadrian’s Wall, London Eye, Stonehenge, Travelodge
Sep 18th, 2009 |
By Adrian Lawes
Two recent surveys, one by Visit England and the other by the foreign exchange bureaux company, First Rate both claim to be able to reveal what visitors to our shores want to see. Unfortunately the two say different things. the findings from Visit England are based on visitor entry numbers and since places like Trafalgar Square and Tower Bridge are free to walk around (unless you want to go into Tower Bridge), visits aren’t counted.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
Comments Off on What Do Visitors Want to See in the UK?
Tags: British Museum, Chester Zoo, Coventry Cathedral, Eden Project, First Rate, Kew Gardens, Lake District, National Gallery, Sheffield Winter Gardens, Stonehenge, Tate Liverpool, Tate Modern, Visit England, Westminster Abbey, Windemere
Sep 2nd, 2009 |
By Adrian Lawes
The launch of a new book edited by Bill Bryson, “The Road Less Travelled”, which looks at less well known, less visited places has given the Sunday Times to use the book and ask if readers know of others. The five places it says are the most over-rated are Stonehenge, Petra in Jordan, the Colosseum in Rome, Machu Picchu in Peru and Angkor in Cambodia. So far it has had 90 comments on its website for and against the choices. And that’s a lot more than articles usually get.
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Comments Off on Holiday Visits that Don’t Impress
Tags: "The Road Less Travelled", Bill Bryson, Stonehenge, Sunday Times