A great Christmas gift idea for the travel buff. If you’re wondering what to buy your travel-bugged loved one for Christmas this year, then look no further, as Tripit.com has launched a new online gift card designed to making life easier whilst travelling. In case you are wondering who tripit.com is, it is a mobile
Looking for something other than turkey this Christmas? Get inspired right here! If you are fed up with eating – or particularly cooking – turkey and all the trimmings on Christmas Day and then feeling obliged to eat turkey sandwiches, turkey curry and turkey soup until you are left with a meatless carcass well into
Looking for a luxury villa in the Algarve to hire next summer? Check out some of our latest villas right here. Portugal has a lot to offer – culture, romance, stunning scenery, history, adventure and of course an enviable climate of year-round sun. Traversing with rich, hilly valleys and bound by golden sun-kissed sandy beaches,
Looking for a villa holiday in Kefalonia? Look no further, these are the hottest properties on the island. With an air of sweet smelling citrus fruits circling jagged and rocky peaks and floating across long, sandy beaches, it is hardly surprising that the Greek island of Kefalonia remains a popular holiday destination. Intent on finding
A programme of events dedicated to the tradition of Christmas and New Year in the south western corner of France, with a particular emphasis on wine, is to be held in the wine cellars in the town of Beziers. Until 2 January next year, the Beziers Mediterranean Tourist Office is putting on a series of
Skopelos is an amazing Greek island to trek, you are never too far from a beach or a view. Here’s our essential guide to walking in Skopelos. You may want to get Christmas and the New Year out of the way before you start planning for next year’s holiday, although with the weather getting infinitively gloomier, the
In typical up-to-date fashion, Vintage Travel is pleased to inform its readers of newly released ‘hot off the press’ tickets for the New Year’s Eve Party at Pestana Golf resorts on the Algarve. If seeing the New Year in for the umpteenth consecutive year down your local doesn’t wholly inspire you this year, or forking
If you’re thinking of Euro railing then you may want to consider including Spain’s excellent high speed rail network. Is it a coincidence that the acronym of Alta Velocidad Espanola is ‘AVE’, the Spanish word for ‘bird’? Or has the high-speed network Spain ambitiously aspires, been aptly titled to personify these trains as birds of
Whilst Christmas in the UK may half-heartedly begin on December 1, with the opening of the first advent calendar window, in Provence the festive season begins with a lot more zest and ‘official’ enthusiasm, on December 4, when St. Barbe’s Day is celebrated. Also unlike Britain where the decorations are hastily taken down and Christmas
According to statistics taken from the Spanish National Statistics Institute, the Balearic Islands had the highest hotel occupancy in Spain during the month of September. But the island of Mallorca came out on top, with 796,259 tourists staying in hotels and with 77.2 percent of aeroplane seats flying to the island sold. Given this surge
