Posts Tagged ‘ north ’

Ferries have ceased from Britain to Scandinavia, but Debbie Lawson takes an alternative slow route north on a camping road trip along Norway's stunning south coast When the last direct ferry between Britain and Norway set sail in 2008 , severing a historic maritime link between the two countries, it also called time...
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Tee Times USA's newest golf vacation give-away offers a chance to win a 5-day/4-night dream golf vacation for four people to the renowned Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club in Palm Harbor, Florida near Tampa. This is the most luxurious and valuable trip ever offered by ...
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On our honeymoon in Hawaii, we found the second most exciting thing on the trip was the North Shore of Oahu: Haleiwa, Hawaiian Shark Adventure, & Giavonni's
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A word of advice for our Labor Day Weekend travelers. Hurricane Earl is becoming the most powerful storm projected to hit the East Coast since Hurricane Bob in 1991. Those with plans of traveling between now and Saturday to North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts
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Holidaymakers staying on Ocracoke and Hatteras Islands have been told to leave as Hurricane Earl, currently classified as a Category Four storm, looks set to hit land in North Carolina.
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As of 2pm, the National Weather Service had issued a hurricane watch for the North Carolina coast. The state is currently evacuating visitors from Hatteras Island and the rest of the O ...
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Virgin Islands National Park has survived Hurricane Earl with only heavy rains and a few downed trees to report, but park officials aren't ready to take their hurricane shutters down just yet. And in North Carolina, officials at Cape Lookout ...
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Filed under: Arts and Culture , History , Learning , Europe , United Kingdom September is Scottish Archaeology Month , and the land of kilts and haggis is gearing up for four weeks of free talks, tours, and events highlighting the region's rich heritage. The special month is part of Visit Scotland's new...
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Filed under: North America , Ecotourism , Cruises In 2007, it was possible to board a flight in Baltimore and set foot fewer than five hours later in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland's largest commercial airport. From Kangerlussuaq, it was a short hop to board Hurtigruten's (a Norwegian cruise company) Fram to...
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Once the king of Britain's resorts it is now better known for drunken stag bashes and ballroom-dancing OAPs. Now it's bidding to be a Unesco world-heritage site. Why? There is something strangely compelling about Blackpool's Tower Ballroom. I've been struggling to capture essence-of-Blackpool, ...
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