Posts Tagged ‘
Lake District ’
May 2nd, 2021 |
By The Editor
Travel Counsellors conclude that consumers remain confident that summer holidays both overseas and at home are on the cards
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Holiday bookings rise
Tags: Cornwall, Devon, Greece, Isle of Wight, Lake District, Norfolk, spain, The Isles of Scilly, Travel Counsellors, UAE, UK, USA
Nov 16th, 2019 |
By Kaye Holland
Travel guide Lonely Planet has hailed England as the second best country in the world in which to travel. Here’s why…
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on We love England
Tags: Bath, Brexit, coast, England, Lake District, London, Lonely Planet, Travel, York
Jul 5th, 2019 |
By The Editor
The Lake District is a huge tourist draw so if the airport can get direct flights to the places from where existing (and potential) visitors come, then there is no reason why the airport shouldn’t flourish.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Has Carlisle Lake District Airport a future?
Tags: Blackpool Airport, Carlisle Lake District Airport, easyjet, Lake District, Loganair
Apr 10th, 2019 |
By The Editor
Visitors will head to the national parks on both sunny and inclement days for the walking, the scenery, the enjoyment and the opportunity to just clear the mind’s cobwebs!
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Cairngorms, Lake District, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, National Parks, Peak District, South Downs
Jun 9th, 2018 |
By Adrian Lawes
This weekend is Trooping the Colour and this coming week is National Picnic Week. The good weather is encouraging more of us to enjoy the great outdoors so have a look at our events listings.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 9th June 2018
Tags: airport security, Emirates Airline, Greece, Guernsey, Guernsey Museum, Harris Tweed, Hauteville House, Lake District, National Picnic Week, Outer Hebrides, travel agency closures, travellers gripes, Trooping the Colour, Western Isles, windowless planes
Jun 2nd, 2018 |
By Adrian Lawes
The Lake District, a new Bronte trail, the big Ramsagate festival and the arrival of Las Vegas in London to bring some pizzazz to the capital are some of Adrian’s thoughts this week.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 2nd June 2018
Tags: Australia, BA, Bradford Literature Festival, Bronte Parsonage Museum, Canada, Great Barrier Reef, Jet Airways, Korea, Lake District, Las Vegas, Malaysia, Manchester, Northern Rail, Queensland, Ramsgate, Royal Harbour History Festival, Ryanair check-in times, Singapore
Jun 1st, 2018 |
By Kaye Holland
Just About Travel tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on What’s hot: June 2018
Tags: apps, Australia, cruises, Durham, Europe, Eurostar, hot, Lake District, London, My Swft, Oz, pets, Tipping, Travamigos, Travel, TUI
Jan 31st, 2018 |
By The Editor
Yesterday at the Westminster Media Forum meeting on tourism, a different subject was raised by a Cambridge councillor, John Hipkin. It is the problem of having too many of us visiting his city.
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Tourism despoilation
Tags: cambridge, facilities for tourists, Lake District, over tourism, tourism despoilation
Sep 7th, 2017 |
By The Editor
Built using a series of trees as the main supports, this unique and specialist facility is 100 metres long and stretches across eight platforms, with seven separate challenges.
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: England, Lake Bassenthwaite, Lake District, Lake District Calvert Trust
Jul 10th, 2017 |
By The Editor
Yesterday at the UNESCO meeting in the Polish city of Krakow it was announced that the Lake District had received World Heritage status. What will this mean?
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on The Lake District; now a World Heritage site
Tags: Lake District, Lakes Alive, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Jun 4th, 2017 |
By The Editor
Today is UNESCO World Heritage Day. Given the destruction by ISIS at Palmyra and at other Middle Eastern sites it is important to remember what we have lost and give thanks for what we still have and still have to discover.
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: Aleppo, damascus, Egypt, Iraq., Jobar Synagogue, Krakow, Lake District, Luxor, Menorca, palmyra, syria, Tuna al-Gabal, UNESCO World Heritage Day
Apr 29th, 2017 |
By Adrian Lawes
A museum of ice-cream, another about Dr Seuss, Bexit, being a gin ambassador and new flights to Russia attract Adrian’s attention this week.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: April 29th 2017
Tags: Airbnb, Dubai, gin ambassador, Greek ferry services, Grozny, GuestToGuest, IATA, India, Lake District, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Museum of Ice Cream, National Express, Nizhny Novgorod, Pegasus, Responsible travel, Robin Walker MP, Samara, Shimla, Springfield -MA, TAP, The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss, The Isle of Harris Distillery, USA, Volgograd, zoos
Nov 20th, 2016 |
By The Editor
This is the rather pretentious name that has given by the government to its plans to support those areas of Cumbria flooded last winter.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Routes to Resilience
Tags: Cumbria, Cumbria Countryside Access Fund, Lake District, Lake District National Park
Jul 30th, 2016 |
By Adrian Lawes
In a week full of incident, peachicks, penguins, an Air France strike and Pokemon Go take Adrian’s attention before he goes off to visit the Big Cheese in Caerphilly today!
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Saturday snippets: 30th of July 2016
Tags: Air France, Beatrix Potter, Birdland Park & Gardens, Bristol Airport, Cruising, France, Hiroshima, Holocaust Memorial Museum, Kosrae Nautilus Resort, Lake District, Massachusetts, Melton Mowbray, Micronesia, PieFest, Pokemon Go, Queen Elizabeth I, Warwick Castle
Apr 11th, 2016 |
By Kaye Holland
Buenos Aires – Argentina’s charismatic capital – may get most of limelight but a trip to the country’s Lake District is fully warranted in in its own right says Kaye Holland.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Don’t overlook the Lake District
Tags: Argentina, Bariloche, Chile, La Ruta de los Siete Lagos, Lake District, Little Switzerland, mate, Peron, San Martin de los Andes, Seven Lakes Route, South America, Walt Disney
Feb 11th, 2016 |
By Kaye Holland
Kaye’s constant quest for adventure has taken her back to Argentina – the land of gauchos, glaciers, football, tango and beef
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Postcard from Argentina: part three
Tags: Argentina, Bariloche, Chile, Cristina Fernandez, football, gauchos, Germany, glaciers, helado, La Ruta de los Siete Lagos, Lake District, Michael Palin, Nazi, San Carlos de Bariloche, San Martin de los Andes, switzerland, tango, Villa Baviera, World War Two
Jul 27th, 2015 |
By Kaye Holland
Jeremy Macdonogh, author of A Gap Year or Two, talks travel
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Where the experts holiday: Jeremy Macdonogh, author of A Gap Year or Two
Tags: A Gap Year or Two, Bali, cambridge, Cambridge University, East Anglia, Gili islands, Iceland, Indonesia, James Bond, Jeremy Macdonogh, Lake District, Lombok, Rajastan, The Broads, Travel
Jan 26th, 2014 |
By The Editor
Leo Holding – aka Britain’s best climber – talks travel
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Where the experts holiday: top British climber, Leo Holding
Tags: Algeria, Alps, Amazon, Anarctica, California, France, Hong Kong, Lake District, Leo Holding, Libya, New Zealand, Orkney Isles, Sahara desert, Venezuela, Yosemite Valley
Jan 25th, 2014 |
By Kaye Holland
Some of the best travel adventures can be found right here in the UK says Phoebe Smith – editor of adventure travel magazine Wanderlust and author of Extreme Sleeps: Adventures of a Wild Camper
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Where the experts holiday: Phoebe Smith, editor of Wanderlust travel magazine and author of Extreme Sleeps: Adventures of a Wild Camper
Tags: Burma, England, Lake District, Olympics, Phoebe Smith, Russia, Scotland, Travel, UK, Wales, Wanderlust
Oct 21st, 2013 |
By The Editor
In the last few weeks I have had more press releases about Halloween than almost anything else. I knew it was a big event in America but over here?
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Halloween holidays
Tags: Culloden Moor, Culzean Castle, Feast of Samhain, Glamis Castle, Harta Corrie, Jedburgh Castle, Lake District, London Dungeon, Point Lookout Lighthouse, Port Arthur, PortAventura, Sedlec, St Andrews
May 13th, 2013 |
By Kaye Holland
Rosa Park – editor of quarterly food/travel magazine Cereal – on Cornwall, Copenhagen and the Californian coastal town of Santa Barbara
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Bristol, California, Canada, Cereal, Copenhagen, Cornwall, Cotswolds, Devon, Dorset, Lake District, New Forest, Peak District, Portland, Rosa Parks, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Santorini, Seattle, Tel Aviv
Feb 17th, 2013 |
By The Editor
As an island England has more than its fair share of coastline and the national tourist board’s new Coastal Escapes campaign sets out to celebrate it, from quaint Victorian promenades and secret coves to surfers’ hotspots and long sandy stretches. Read on for the low-down on England’s top coastal experiences…
Posted in Travel news, Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on England’s top coastal experiences
Tags: Aldeburgh Beach, Benjamin Britten, Cumbria, Dorset, England, Lake District, Scarborough, Scilly, UK, Yorkshire
Jan 31st, 2013 |
By The Editor
Today sees a new icon on the London skyline, open its doors to the public for the first time. The View from the Shard – the visitor attraction at the tallest building in western Europe – will offer visitors a whole new perspective on the capital
Posted in Travel destinations, Travel news |
Comments Off on View from the top: England’s tallest attractions
Tags: 02, Angel of the North, Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Dorset, Gateshead, Lake District, London, Newcastle, Olympic Park, Portsmouth, Scafell Pike, Spinnaker Tower, St Paul's Cathedral, The View from the Shard, Weymouth, Windsor Castle
Jan 18th, 2013 |
By The Editor
It’s official, England has gone wild swimming crazy. From TV shows and books to charity competitions, it seems we can’t get enough of outdoor swimming spots
Posted in Travel destinations, Travel news |
Comments Off on No lanes, no chlorine, just the great outdoors
Tags: Brighton, Chatsworth Park, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Dorset, Hebden Bridge, Lake District, London, Lulworth Cove, River Thames, Windermere
Oct 6th, 2012 |
By The Editor
Whether you’re eager to learn the history behind Guy Fawkes and his failed gunpowder plot or just want to indulge in toffee apples and treacle whilst watching the sky sparkle, we have the low-down on the top events around the country to guarantee your bonfire night goes off with a bang!
Posted in Travel news, Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Remember, remember the 5th of November
Tags: Beaulieu National Motor Museum, Bonfire Night, Bristol Zoo, Coombe Abbey, Coventry, Dorset, Guy Fawkes, Kent, Lake District, Langdale Hotel and Spa, Leeds Castle, New Forest, Poole, York
Jun 15th, 2012 |
By The Editor
Times may be tough but Brits are refusing to give up their summer holiday – according to Travelodge’s annual holiday index, published earlier this week
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on Staycations still hot
Tags: Britain, Cornwall, Edinburgh, Lake District, staycation, Travelodge, UK
Apr 5th, 2012 |
By The Editor
Dr. Jill Nash, owner of independent guidebook publishing company ‘Luxury Backpackers’, on Canada, Cornwall and the Lake District’s best kept secrets
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on Where the experts holiday: Dr Jill Nash, best selling travel author
Tags: Canada, Cornwall, Dubai, France, Italy, Lake District, Lanzarote, Laos, Leeds, Philippines, spain, St Moritz, switzerland, Wales
Jan 9th, 2011 |
By The Editor
CD Traveller reader, Emilie Scholey, takes us on a tour of her five favourite destinations
Posted in Travel destinations, Travel tips & opinions |
Comments Off on The Album: January 2011
Tags: Barcelona, Cartmel, Finland, India, Kerala, Lake District, Marrakech, Morocco, Ruka, spain