St. Davids in Pembrokeshire is officially the UK’s smallest City and home of the Really Wild Food & Countryside Festival. This unique event is held in the astounding Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. The festival is a known as a ‘Celebration of Food and Countryside Crafts Originating from the Wild’.  It is a way to explore our ancestors...

Dotted along 22 Miles of spectacular Coastline, the English Rivera is made up of three different resort towns: Torquay, Paignton and Brixham. Now recognised as one of only 57 Global Geoparks, the story of this beautiful and dramatic coastal landscape began some 400 million years ago. A Geopark is an area with a geological heritage of significance,...

Pembrokeshire offers various outstanding opportunities for diving. The features exhibited in this area offer natural beauty and a stunning scenery well beneath the surface. There are such varied places to dive off any of the three coasts that whether you are looking for caves to explore, seals to swim with or shipwrecks to examine, Pembrokeshire is...

The Esala Perahera procession is a celebration of Sri Lankan Buddhism. Very similar to Mardi Gras but without as much sin and more tradition, the main focus of the celebration is the Sacred Tooth Relic. This tooth was smuggled from India to Sri Lanka nearly 1,700 years ago because it is believed that it is the last surviving bit of the Buddha after...

Long airline trips are not always fun but with the time and gas factor involved with travel these days flying most often the best solution to your travel needs. Unfortunately, flying comes with its own little irritations that can make long trips even more difficult and exhausting than they need to be. There are many tips and tricks that can be utilized...

With the increased airport security that has been put into place over the last few years, most people that don’t travel a great deal are at a loss as to what is allowed and what isn’t allowed when flying. Unfortunately, there is not one basic answer to this question, especially if you are traveling out of the country. Each country that you may...

Traveling, even on a vacation, can be stressful. Packing especially seems to be the one thing about traveling that people avoid and put off until the last minute. Packing doesn’t have to be such an ordeal if you just follow a few simple tips. Making packing easy can make your whole travel experience a lot less stressful and a lot more enjoyable. Planning...

The increasing security precautions that are being enforced make the idea of packing for a long trip a nightmare for some people. Even if you are going on a long trip or actually going out of the country, it is possible to manage with one simple piece of luggage if planned properly. You can save a great deal of time at airport security if you simply...

All of us want to travel as safely as possible. Here are some tips: Consider State Department travel advisories…but don’t trust them blindly While I travel right through many advisories which can seem politically motivated, other warnings for example, about civil unrest in a country that’s falling apart are grounds to cancel a trip. Be...

Norway is so well organized and uncrowded it is one of the easiest places in Europe to tour on your own. If you take advantage of some money-saving options, travel in Norway need be no more expensive than anywhere else in Europe. Here are a few travel tips: Equip yourself with a good guidebook and expect to travel smart. Guidebooks are $20 tools for...