Grown-up Travel Guide Daily Photo: Climbing the Monument, London, England
Not only spectacular to look at from the outside, London’s Monument (to the Great Fire) is an amazing climb too. See this article for the full details
Information, Inspiration and Entertainment for the Post-backpacking Generation
Information, Inspiration and Entertainment for the Post-backpacking Generation
Europe
Grown-up Travel Guide Daily Photo: An airport hotel less ordinary
Beats your boring old chain hotel, right? The Jumbo Stay Hostel at Arlanda Airport, Stockholm, Sweden. More information in this article.
From Hitler’s holiday camp to luxury hotel? – Large section of the “Colossus of Rugen” sold at auction
Block One of the Prora KdF resort fetches £2.2 million at auction on Saturday One day, you could own a piece of this… In a surprising turn of events this weekend, an entire 500 metre section of the planned holiday…
Grown-up Travel Guide Daily Photo: Rosendals Trädgård, Stockholm, Sweden
Organic vegetables directly from the source at Rosendals Trädgård in Stockholm. Don’t miss the gardens and cafe either…
Hotel Review – Conscious Hotel Museum Square, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Amsterdam is truly one of the great European cities to visit, and over the years I’ve been there seven times – running the gamut from broke inter-railer and hitch-hiker through weekend tourist from Berlin to a short break with the…
How to make a shopping mall fun – fill it with the undead
Given that the thought of spending any length of time in a shopping centre – in Reading, west of London no less – gives this writer the creeps, making the experience genuinely creepy is a logical next step. You mean…
Grown-up Travel Guide Daily Photo: City tourism logo, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
The tourist board’s slogan write large outside the Rijksmuseum
The ultimate Northern Lights time-lapse video
The old Aurora B. are getting a lot of attention at the moment given the fact that conditions are supposed to be better now than for years. Despite the best efforts of the Norwegian tourism authorities to claim exclusive ownership of…
Amsterdam: Coffee shop crack-down and red light restrictions? Great!
Returning from a long but enjoyable day of sightseeing to our hotel near Museum Square and thanking our amiable host for his excellent advice which formed the basis for our wanderings, the conversation turned to the current (summer 2010)…
News: London’s most fabulous ice rink is now open
Hurra! The ice rink at Somerset House has just opened for the winter season, and you can now show off your skills/notch up some ace new bruises (delete as appropriate) on the 900 square metres of ice. Enough room for…
The verdict is in: London is Europe’s best shopping destination
There´s gold at the end of the rainbow for London´s shopkeepers… Another reason to love the British capital? Well, could be…depending on your priorities. Anyway London came in at number one in the Globe Shopper City Index – Europe, a new…
Five new ways to reach Stockholm with SAS
Stockholm. It´s a Grown-up Travel Guide favourite and soon to be the subject of our first in-depth destination guide. Ah yes, I remember you banging on about the food scene… True enough. The best blood pudding I´ve ever tasted for one…