Taking The High Road
Leaving Edinburgh and the St Andrew’s Golf Club, our coach tour set off to the Scottish Highlands. Crossing the Firth of Tay, and via Dundee and Perth, we headed into the highlands and the...
Leaving Edinburgh and the St Andrew’s Golf Club, our coach tour set off to the Scottish Highlands. Crossing the Firth of Tay, and via Dundee and Perth, we headed into the highlands and the...
The capital city of Scotland, Edinburgh, is still affectionately referred to as Auld Reekie, although it has cleaned up its act since the 17th century. In those days the overcrowding of housing, smoke from...
The fourth day of our coach tour of England, Scotland and Wales took us from Sheffield through York and the Northumberland National Park, with a brief stop at Jedburgh in Scotland, before an arrival...
The first day of our coach tour took us from London, north to the university city of Oxford, then through the Cotswold Hills to Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon, before stopping overnight in Sheffield. There were about...
After a couple of weeks driving independently through parts of England, visiting ancestral locations and various relatives, we looked forward to having all decision-making regarding routes, accommodations and sightseeing made for us on a...
Millions of tourists come to Salzburg each year to pay homage to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91) who was born here and lived here for his first 25 years. A museum devoted to him and...
There’s a lot to see in Budapest, from the magnificent hilltop Palace complex on the Buda side of the Danube, to the grandiose buildings and boulevards of Pest. Our coach tour accommodation was on...
When we booked our coach tour of Central Europe we realised we would have a second chance to see a couple of major cities – Vienna included – having just called in there on...
Situated on the Vltava River, this wonderful city has more than its fair share of historic spired buildings. Known locally as Praha, it was founded during the Romanesque period and its building exhibit the...
No matter how you spell it, this city is one of the most prosperous and fastest growing cities in Germany. The name is taken from the old German word for Monk, since the settlement...