Manchester is the main city near where Dawn and I live. Our town in essentially in between both Liverpool and Manchester. Liverpool has recently begun to have markets to celebrate Christmas but Manchester is still the place to go if you want to visit Christmas markets in the north west of England. As I have … More Christmas in Manchester
Dawn and I decided that as we had already visited Christmas markets in the UK over recent years and last year we went to Copenhagen. We decided to visit the motherland of Christmas markets and go to Germany. We looked at a few cities but decided on Berlin. Neither Dawn or I had visited there … More Christmas in Berlin
During our visit to Copenhagen, Dawn and I decided that one of the things we definitely wanted to see was Tivoli Gardens. Tivoli is a traditional theme park in the heart of Copenhagen, it has been open since 1943 and is the second oldest theme park in the world. Dawn and I were keen to … More The Park that inspired Walt Disney
As I have said before one of our favourite things to do when traveling is try the food. In fact I have said on many occasions it is one of the reasons I travel. Dawn and I recently travelled to Copenhagen. In my last post I talked about what we saw, in this post I … More What we ate in Copenhagen…
As I said in a previous post Scandinavia is one of my favourite places in the world. I have wanted to go there since my son decided Lego was his favourite toy and of course thanks to an interesting Finnish man (see the ‘Scandimania before it was cool’ post). So after watching Oprah Winfrey in … More Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen
I know that package holidays have got a bad rap over the last few years and that everyone now likes the control of doing everything themselves but sometimes a good old package holiday is a nice change. Most of the holidays we have taken in recent years have been self designed where all items are … More Package holidays are not all bad
