This post is part of a series called Around Italy Bolzano is known as “the gateway to the Dolomites” for good reasons. It’s the nearest city to the heart of…

This post is part of a series called Around Italy It’s my other half’s turn to celebrate his milestone birthday in June. He chose to spend it in Val di…

This post is part of a series called Wonderful Wiltshire What can be a more traditional English weekend break than to have mid morning refreshment in a pretty market town,…

Unlike Utrecht which oozes gregarious vibes, The Hague exudes regal charms and sophistication. It’s expectable, given its status as the home of United Nations’ International Court of Justice and the…

Utrecht, the 4th largest city in the Netherlands is all that – vibrant, incredible and pretty! Vibrant  – with students accounting for one-fifths of its population, the largest in the country, it’s…

Although it’s only the fifth largest city in Switzerland, Bern is the Swiss capital. There’re not the usual frantic and hectic activities associated with capital cities here. Bern has an…

Having had to cancel my visit to Colmar for 3 successive years since 2019 for one reason or another, I was determined to celebrate my special birthday there. And I…

Basel, the third largest Swiss city situated on the banks of Rhine River in northwest Switzerland, close to the country’s borders with France and Germany, was to have been just…

This post is part of a series called Sweet Somerset What’s in a name?  Well, far from being irrelevant as implied by Shakespeare, a name fires the imagination, conjures up…

This post is part of a series called Madeira After 2 years of staycation, I was thrilled to be able to travel abroad again. Madeira in January was the ideal…