Five tips: 1. Obvious – water your plants the day before you go away. 2. Turn your heating thermostat. Not too far if a cold snap is pending – burst pipes and all that… 3. Give your plants some nourishment before you go. e.g a good quality plant food. 4. Make sure your plants have
Malaga, a modern and cosmopolitan city on Spain’s Costa del Sol, a centre for international trade and commerce, lined with designer outlets and thriving with tourists and life. But despite being home to such comprehensive commercial activity, which ensures Malaga is one of Spain’s more ‘up-to-date’ and ‘in-touch’ cities, Malaga nostalgically clings on to its
5 November 2010 – 7 November 2010 Any festival dedicated to an alcohol drink promises to be memorable, or perhaps unmemorable may be a more accurate word. Unlike many other holiday resorts, which are as ‘dead as a dodo’ come November, the island of Crete is buzzing, brimming with life and parties. The first week
The Algarve and its inhabitants may be right to be proud of a lot of things -Beautiful beaches, an enviable climate including mild winters, culture and tradition interwoven with the right proportion of contemporary glitz. But legendary British singer Sir Cliff Richard being a self-confessed advocator of the region has to be high on list
If you want an excuse to jet off to Croatia this winter, then there could not be a better one than to see the FIS Women’s Alpine Skiing World Cup beginning on January 4 2011.
The six, huge, white domes of Calar Alto Observatory poised amongst Almeria’s bucolic landscape, are a spectacular example of man’s creativity in harmony with nature. These revolutionary objects are essential entities in the field of astronomy and look like they belong on a science fiction set. In fact when you are up close you half
Wanting to go somewhere to celebrate Halloween in style? Then want no more and book yourself on a plane to Catalonia’. ‘La Castanyada’ is fêted on 1 November every year in celebration of Catalonia’s All Saints Day. The whole of this culturally autonomous province is engulfed in a day of carousing and festivities. But it
When thinking about the Dordogne, one usually tends to imagine scenes of rural bliss. Mighty rivers flowing through green pastures, thick woodlands, rolling hillsides and quaint pretty villages immediately spring to mind. Whilst these scenes of rustic rapture are most definitely a true representation of this beautiful region of France, its lively theatre scene is
Holidaymakers have been urged to take extra precaution when driving on foreign roads following a report from the Make Roads Safe Campaign which claimed 25,000 tourists are killed on the road each year. The Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) has issued a stark warning to British motorists driving abroad to take greater care whilst
The last three weekends in November, in the particularly pictorial Tuscan town on San Miniato, are dedicated to the celebration of truffles, when ‘La Sagra del Tartufo Bianco’ takes place offering visitors the most divinely exquisite of white truffles and other truffle-derived products. The countryside surrounding San Miniato in the Pisa province of Tuscany is
