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YOU couldn’t spend a safer Staycation this summer than at the famous Ashford Castle and sister hotel, The Lodge at Ashford.
Continue reading “ASHFORD CASTLE AWARDED GOLD STANDARD AWARD FOR SAFETY PROTOCOLS”.…. WHILE BRITISH VISITORS TO REPUBLIC MUST QUARANTINE
BRITISH holidaymakers are now subject to a 14-day quarantine in the Republic as the UK was excluded from the country’s travel ‘green list’ announced today.
Continue reading “THUMBS DOWN FOR FRANCE AND SPAIN, BUT IT’S OK TO FLY TO ITTOQQORTOORMIIT (IN GREENLAND)”… COULD THEY STILL BE PART OF PUTIN’S WORLDWIDE ARMY?
ASKS BRIAN OGLE
WHEN visiting Crimea just a few months before Putin’s ‘Little Green Men’ took over and annexed the peninsula for Russia, I was lucky enough to take a tour of what had been a Russian nuclear submarine base under the cliffs in the port of Balaclava, just a short drive from the site of the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War.
Continue reading “BALACLAVA: CRIMEAN PORT WHERE DOLPHINS WERE TRAINED TO FIGHT THE NAZIS….”CYPRUS BY NATASHA WARCHOLAK
WHAT unites countries in the north of Europe is the craving for sun and warm seas. Cyprus has the reputation of having it all.
Continue reading “SUN, SEA AND SAND…. CYPRUS, LAND OF PLENTY IN THE MED HAS IT ALL IN ABUNDANCE”
ASHFORD Castle has been voted the number one resort hotel in the UK and Ireland by readers of the iconic Travel & Leisure magazine, one of the most acclaimed travel publications in the world for discerning travellers.
Continue reading “ASHFORD CASTLE VOTED NUMBER ONE RESORT HOTEL IN UK AND IRELAND”BRIAN OGLE recalls the days when a USSR built transistor radio opened new horizons and even brought a gift from Chairman Mao
I’VE always had a passion for travel, but as a teenager I travelled the world without leaving the comfort of the family living room.
Continue reading “TRAVELLING THE WORLD FROM THE FRONT ROOM WITH VEF, MY RUSSIAN SHORT WAVE FRIEND”… AND THEY’LL DRAW YOU BACK TIME AND TIME AGAIN
AS July 1 is the anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme, it reminds me that another of the places I will be heading back to when things return to normal, will be the battlefields of northern France, and the area around the village of Pozieres on the Bapaume-Albert road, close to the valley of the Somme.
Continue reading “AFTER THE VIRUS – VISIT THE BATTLEFIELDS AND MEMORIALS OF THE SOMME….”LONDON: CITYBREAK SPECIAL
LET’S face it! You either love London or loathe it… When working in the capital or just flying over for a business meeting I usually can’t wait to catch the flight back to Belfast – but as a tourist I could easily spend a month there!
Continue reading “LOVE IT OR LOATHE IT…. YOU CAN’T BEAT LONDON AS A TOP TOURIST DESTINATION!”BY NATASHA WARCHOLAK
THERE comes a time in everybody’s life when one is overpowered by an urge to do something special. The realisation of adulthood can take different forms – it could mean revamping your wardrobe, swapping vodka shots for knowledgeable wine sipping or becoming an avid Radio 4 listener at the expense of the X Factor.
Continue reading “MADEIRA: WHERE EUROPE MEETS THE TROPICS…..”
BY BRIAN OGLE
ONE of the first places I will be heading back to when international travel resumes is to the town of Ypres in Belgium – right in the middle of the First World War Battlefields.
Continue reading “AFTER THE VIRUS….. I’LL BE HEADING BACK TO YPRES IN FLANDERS FIELDS…”
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