Tourism and Travel Blog from Bangor Northern Ireland to European Destinations on road trips and train journeys.
A visit to Islay (pronounced eye-la) has been at the top of my to-do list since I first started blogging back in 2013. But it has always been scuppered through past visits with Fanfan given I am the only one that can drive legally in the UK. So any visit to Islay would have been …
A road trip in Scotland will likely start where you arrive, however, our Scottish road trip itinerary kind of loops around, like a figure 8, meaning you can begin pretty much anywhere from our destination list below. For example, from Edinburgh, I would probably start at St. Andrews, and from Glasgow, I would maybe start …
We have covered a fair few road trips in Europe through various times of the year, with around 16 different European countries under our belt now. And here we share a quick list of our best road trips in Europe to date when travelling on Self Drive Holidays in Europe. And while the list is …
Ironically the single, best individual day of our road trip in France was in Spain, when we travelled through the Pyrenees from France’s glitzy seaside city of Biarritz to our next destination of Alquezar, a medieval village in the mountainous regions of Huesca Province. And the journey followed a number of fascinating and unexpected contrasts along pristine …
We followed the Glacier Express Route from Zermatt to St Moritz, on a rather spectacular train journey that cuts across the Swiss Alps, during winter when the mountains are still blanketed in snow (mid-January). As it really is the most perfect winter train journey in Europe. And we started the 2-day journey from Bern, the …
Our visit to Switzerland was part of a road trip where we arrive from Lake Como in the Italian Alps before forwarding on to Chamonix and the French Alps. In Switzerland, we do rush through other attractions along the way including Titlis and Brunni in Engelberg, but our main attraction was the Jungfrau region where …
One of my lesser goals in travel is to eat the traditional dishes of every country in Europe. Something that is not as simple as expected, where they are often hidden behind the hot dogs, kebab shops, and multiculturalism of today’s modern Europe. And while I did aim to tick off all the National Dishes …
We opt for a road trip on this winter adventure, as almost all attractions planned are well off the beaten path, and they’re really just not accessible by either flight or even train at times. Plus, with road trips in Europe, much of the best scenery is found between big cities, in the mountains and …
This whole Interrail itinerary started as no more than the idea of the Glacier Express; a rather spectacular train journey that cuts across the Swiss Alps from Zermatt to snowy Saint Moritz. But in piecing together the journey, we quickly realised that travel to-and-around Switzerland would likely be very expensive. Or at least it could …
I’d say we’ve travelled fairly well in the winter months over the past few years, but were I to pick 3 highlights in this time, it would have to be our rail travels in Japan, and maybe our winter road through the Scottish Highlands, then there’s that time in Cesky Krumlov in winter snow. This …
