Posts Tagged ‘Europe’

Primavera Sound 2009

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

The season of festivals and concerts approaches. The spring, besides good weather, brings an endless number of music festivals of all genres. Among them, highlights the festival of festivals of Europe, the favourite for music lovers, The Primavera Sound!

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Luxury Yacht Charter Destination – The Stockholm Archipelago and Gotland – Part I

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

The Baltic might not be the first place that comes to mind when considering a luxury yacht charter vacation, but during the short Scandinavian summer, it’s a magical place with warm breezes and almost 24 hours of daylight. The best time to visit is June to September, and like everywhere else in Europe, July and August are the most crowded. For a totally Swedish experience, visit during Midsummer (usually around June 20th), the longest day of the year (even as far south as Stockholm, summer nights never get completely dark, the sky just takes on a deep blue tint for a few hours before the sun comes back up again) and one of the most celebrated holidays in Sweden.

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A Brief History on Cheap Holidays to Turkey

Sunday, June 7th, 2009

Back in the late 1980’s the then largest independent Cheap holiday company in the UK called Sunmed secured some great little holidays to what was then a pretty virgin and relatively unknown new holiday destination. Turkey. Apart from the Turks themselves no one really holidayed there or had even considered it before Sunmed introduced their Go Turkey brochure to the general British public, and although Sunmed Holidays are long gone, in the last twenty years cheap holidays to Turkey have developed and flourished into a fully fledged holiday destination contender and positioned itself into the top three holiday destinations not only for the Brits but also the rest of Europe.

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Cruising Your Way Around Europe

Friday, May 29th, 2009

A great way to see parts of Europe without a lot of the usual hassle is to book a cruise. In mid-May, we flew to Barcelona from Phoenix via British Airways direct flight to London with a short second flight to Spain. From there, we boarded a Royal Caribbean ship, the Splendor of the Seas, for the beginning of a seven day exploration.

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Royal Caribbean Cruise Line

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Article for those who are unfamiliar with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, that might think that its cruise ships are only sailing to the Caribbean. Although they also include the Caribbean in their cruise itineraries, they also sail to different locations like Canada, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Hawaii, Mexico, Europe, Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, the Panama Canal, and the transatlantic destinations as well.

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