Trip Reviews
Music festivals in Lisbon
Portugal’s capital is no stranger to music with its traditional Fado always a popular draw. However the city has plenty of alternative forms of musical expression and this summer visitors can head to a host of music events which cater to all tastes. Listed below is the TripReporter guide to some of this summer’s top […]
Read the full story hereSt. Kitts and Nevis. Out of season not out of pocket.
St. Kitts and Nevis. Out of season is not out of pocket. “This” said Henry, a local resident pointing across at the elegant small park in the heart of Basseterre, St Kitts’ colonial capital, “is a sacred place”. Looking at the slight Victorian bandstand, the flowerbeds bordering the closely mown grass, I mentally asked myself why a place more typical of a family Sunday stroll could be so sacred.
Read the full story hereExploring Slovenia
Shoemakers Bridge was looking particularly pretty in its Christmas party dress, all lit up and sending out fine festive feelings to the folk in Ljubljana Slovenia.. Remarkably different from its former role as the location for dunking misbehaving bakers into the cold murky Ljubljanica river back in the middle ages.
Read the full story hereTallinn. Too tempting to miss.
Tallinn’s Old Town is a chocolate box beautiful, perfectly preserved 13th century medieval port town with genuine cobbled streets, wooden beamed merchant houses, windy lanes and tiny hidden courtyards.
Read the full story hereThe Beaches of Emilia Romagna
Emillia Roagna’s Adriatic coastal stretch is impressive. Miles and miles of soft sandy beaches, all of them clean as a whistle and family friendly. This is the thing about most Italian resort beaches, they are set up perfectly.From Lido di Volano in the north by the Po Delta to Cattolica in the south close to the border with the Marche region.
Read the full story herePink Night (La Notte Rosa) Rimini. Italy
Considering it was well into the early hours, Rimini seemed to have absolutely no intention of going to bed. It was staying up and having a ball; all the shops were open, the bars were doing great business and all along the beach in each direction you could only see a sea of pink. Pink Night is something a little special in Rimini. Not, as you might first think, a celebration of anything remotely gender based, but simply a celebration of a summer version of New Year’s Eve.
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