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HOLIDAYMAKERS driving in certain parts of France have been warned they could be fined if they do not display an emissions sticker on their car .
Continue reading “GET AN EMISSIONS STICKER OR GET A FINE IN PARTS OF FRANCE”…… NOW DEPARTURES ON SIX DAYS EACH WEEK AND 12 WEEKLY SAILINGS
STENA Line has expanded its service from Rosslare to Cherbourg with the inaugural voyage of Stena Vision, making the company the operator with the most frequent Irish crossings to continental Europe.
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AS the peak summer season draws closer, Irish tourists looking for a holiday in France will have an added option this year, with Stena Line operating a second cruise ferry on its Rosslare to Cherbourg service.
Continue reading “MORE CAPACITY, MORE SPACE AND PET CABINS TOO ON STENA LINE’S NEW CHERBOURG SERVICE”As speculation persists about an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine, and perhaps an attempt to take the capital Kiev, one of a fast disappearing number of Soviet era monuments dominates the skyline over the Ukrainian capital. BRIAN OGLE visited Rodina Mat and the Great Patriotic War Museum which ironically is being continually updated to include events in the ongoing separatist war in the Donbas…...
PROBABLY the world’s two most iconic tourist landmarks are New York’s Statue of Liberty and the statue of Christ the Redeemer overlooking Rio de Janeiro.
Continue reading “A WELCOME, OR A WARNING, ‘MOTHER MOTHERLAND’ STILL DOMINATES THE KIEV SKYLINE”
BRITISH Airways has named tennis superstar, Emma Raducanu, as its latest global brand ambassador.
Continue reading “TENNIS CHAMP EMMA IS GLOBAL FACE OF BRITISH AIRWAYS”……….DID THIS HEADSTONE PROVIDE INSPIRATION FOR ‘GREEN FIELDS OF FRANCE’?
ONE of the best known and most popular ballads about the Great War is Eric Bogle’s No Man’s Land, re-christened The Green Fields of France by Irish group The Fureys, but alternatively more popularly identified by many in this part of the world as The Ballad of Willie McBride.
Continue reading “ERIC BOGLE: SCOTSMAN WHO MADE WILLIE McBRIDE AN ICON OF THE GREAT WAR….”BRIAN OGLE REFLECTS ON HIS MANY VISITS TO THE BATTLEFIELDS OF YPRES AND THE SOMME
ON Remembrance Day I will as always be following BBC TV’s coverage of events at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, but my thoughts for at least some of the time will be hundreds of miles away at Canada Farm cemetery at Elverdinge, a few miles outside Ypres in West Flanders.
Continue reading “THE DAY EVERY YEAR MY THOUGHTS ARE IN CANDADA FARM IN FLANDERS FIELDS”
NEW research has revealed the most beautiful hot springs in the world, a must addition to your winter travel bucket list.
Continue reading “BLUE LAGOON ‘THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HOT SPRINGS IN WORLD’”……. YOUTH HOSTEL ASSOCIATION’S MOURNE WALL WALK WAS TOO DEMANDING – AND FAR TOO POPULAR!
BY BRIAN OGLE
AFTER my short piece the other day about running the first Belfast City Marathon with virtually no training or preparation, and at the risk of appearing the athletic equivalent of an anti-Vaxer – an anti-Trainer, I recall completing the Mourne Wall Walk with not only no preparation, no proper weather-proof clothes, no suitable footwear and apart from a couple of Mars bars, no sustenance for the 22-mile journey, rather expedition.
Continue reading “A THIRD OF THE HEIGHT OF EVEREST IN ONE DAY…..IN THE MOURNES!”MENORCA: DESTINATION REPORT BY NATASHA WARCHOLAK
CAN you imagine the lush greenery of Ireland in blazing sunshine? A balmy Mediterranean island still immune to cut-throat tourism?
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The 'Travel' Life of Brian 