The Thrill of Competition in Birmingham and Corby

Andrew Carnegie once said ‘while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department’. Competition is without a doubt integral to the way humans have developed throughout history.

A New Domesday Assessment for Corby and Braintree

The Domesday Book completed in 1086 was a survey of all of the wealth in England. It was undertaken by order of William I in order to find out how much each property holder had in land and livestock. This would facilitate the taking of taxes.

Glasgow’s Top 5 Attractions

Scotland boasts a vast array of exciting attractions, and a large number of historic towns and castles. No matter whether you’re staying at a Balmoral Castle hotel, or even a bed and breakfast in Edinburgh; a visit to Scotland makes a great weekend break for anyone who has a passion for history and culture.

Great British Cuisine

Britain has something of a reputation amongst its continental cousins, for producing a particularly bland selection of native cuisine; famous for its fish and chips and flavourless, starchy dumplings, it is no wonder that the British Isles are so often the butt of Europeans’ culinary criticisms.

The 5 Bs – Britain’s Best Cities Beginning with B

Birmingham – second to London in everything from sheer size to political and cultural influence. “The First Manufacturing Town in the World” and thought of by many as one of the big Northern and Midlands industrial cities in heavy decline, all that is about to change. The ‘Big City Plan’ is already in action, aiming to reshape Birmingham’s city centre into one of the 20 most liveable in the world.

What to See in Edinburgh

Edinburgh Castle would be my first recommendation. This wonderful castle is perched on a mighty rock which is an extinct volcano and is very evidently the perfect location for a fortress in the area as far as your eyes will be able to see around it. It is a powerful national symbol and the history of the country is almost completely inextricably linked with it in every era since it was built.

Fed Up with Canadian Cell Phone Coverage

Have you ever noticed the difference in cell phone coverage when you travel abroad? Perhaps it is only me, as I live in the worst country for it, Canada. There is something about this country that has me actually dumbfounded when it comes to our approach to mobile coverage. We pay more, but get less. If anyone can make sense of this please feel free to add to the discussion, or perhaps join me on parliament hill. Yet, I do feel as though I speak from experience.

Edinburgh - a winter wonderland

Booking a trip to Edinburgh? There are so many things to plan ahead, whether it’s getting your tickets for the Edinburgh Festival in the summer and booking into the shows you want to see, or getting ready to visit the Winter Wonderland, an amazing attraction and home to the biggest outdoor ice rink in Europe. If you’re visiting over the new year period, you can be part of Hogmanay, the world’s biggest new year’s street party, where partygoers and new year’s revellers roam the streets drinking, dancing and wholly ignoring the cold to watch the fireworks at midnight. If you’re there for the entire holiday period, you can also visit the German Christmas market great for kids, where you’ll find delicious sweet treats, more sausages than you can shake a stick at and some cute German stocking fillers for Christmas Day. If you’re a history buff, you’ll be spoilt for choice with so many old buildings steeped in history, from the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the royal residence and notorious one-time home of Mary, Queen of Scots, to Grassmarket, the site of a cattle market from the 15th century until the start of the 20th, a focal point of the Old Town. Once the city’s main place of execution, over 100 martyred Covenanters are commemorated by a monument at the eastern end, where the gallows used to stand.

Tour de Scotland

Although you would not think that Scotland is a favourable place to ride a bike, you would be surprised at how enjoyable it can actually be. I am not stating that I am the next tour de France winner, but I do ride frequently, and I have a difficult time leaving my bike at home when our family goes on lengthy trips. I contemplated for weeks whether or not I would take it along with me to Scotland, as the country is well known for hills and dangerous roads. Yet, in the end, I thought it would be more beneficial to have it than to regret it. I am sure glad I came to that conclusion.

Upcoming Events this November In Edinburgh

On the 12 of November 2011 Eddi Reader will be playing at the Queens Hall In Edinburgh on Clerk Street. For those of you who have never heard of her, Eddi Reader, the daughter Welder and the eldest of seven children, was born in Glasgow and spent her early life living in one of the slums of the city. She began to play the guitar at the age of ten and started her busking career in Glasgow and later Edinburgh.

She is a national treasure and it is hard to imagine that she was once a busker on Glasgow’s Sauchiehall street. For those of you who are old enough to remember, she was once the lead singer and songwriter of Fairground Attraction.

Visiting The United Kingdom

The United Kingdom is an ideal destination if you are looking for a country in which you will have an incredibly wide range of possibilities available to you when it comes to deciding how you would like to spend your time. First thing that I would do if I were you is to head for London. Whatever your budget, there will be accommodation available for a price in your range: you could stay in a four star hotel or a cheap bed and breakfast and when it comes to transport you can get black cabs everywhere or you can get an oyster card for the tube and bus.

Celtic And Rangers

Football fans all over the world can be passionate to say the least, but the old rivalry between Celtic and Rangers is notorious and still provokes extreme reactions by a lot of their supporters.

Sardinia is Calling You!

And you can not even hesitate about not answering the cellphone. When planing your next holidays, you should consider that it has never been more easy to get to the famous Italian island. Delete its name from the list of impossible destinations: you don’t have to be extremely rich to enjoy the Emerald Coast. Although it is still a millionaires favourite spot, Sardinia is getting more and more accessible to other budgets.

Thorpe Park Followed By a Stint in Scotland

It’s fair to say that I’ve been all over the country this weekend. I am writing this entry from the comfort of a frankly incredible hotel in Scotland and have gone from being completely exhausted to totally relaxed in a short matter for a few hours. This weekend I was torn between attending Thorpe Park with my friends from home, plus coming along to my cousin’s wedding do in Edinburgh. I decided that although family matters should take top priority, I couldn’t pass up on the chance to go to Thorpe Park with my friends, so I decided to do both instead.

A Visit to the Austrian Capital

Vienna is truly a glorious symbol of the Old World. The city provides high culture attractions with world-class museums, palaces, historical buildings and operas. Many of the greatest composers lived here as well as many intellectuals, philosophers and scientists like Sigmund Freud. Today the Austrian capital is still inspiring as ever and is alluring countless tourist groups from all over the world.

Lviv - Overview

We are very glad to welcome you to Lviv one of the most beautiful cities of Ukraine. A city with rich history and cultural-connections which has had different rulers in the past today remains one of the most charming and modern miracles in Europe. Around 800.000 people live in Lviv.

The city of Lviv is talked about as the top cultural point of the whole Ukraine. You will see here multitude of cultural events, there are a lot of old avenues and other opportunities for good entertainment. Lviv always used to be the historical center in the West of Ukraine. Lviv is known as a universicty city located in western Ukraine. The town has a big amount of instructional institutions Lviv State University, State University "Lviv Politechnics" and different higher schools. Man historical landmarks within the Old City's area are on the heritage list of Unesco. All guests of the city can stroll the city centre, museums or visit Latin Cathedral . The Ensemble of the Historic Centre is built in different architectural styles from gothic-style buildings to Renaissance. Lviv is a "pearl" of Eastern Europe and the city of the most hospitable people. We can tell you about just a few places of historical importance of the city like Gunpowder Tower or Roman Catholic Cathedral You can find in Lviv unique places of interest like Arsenal Museum or market Square.

Lviv is a city of european traditions, a place for consolidation of the hole country. You will enjoy remarkably preserved Gothic and Renaissance architecture, gently bending streets and blind streets, Lviv has mixed East and Europe in itself. There are a lot of sights for visitors.

Ancient City of Lviv and Lviv History Museum are the main attractions of the city and Lviv hotels Booking

It will be splendid trip to the city of Lviv. You will open the Honour of Lviv.

A lot of Lviv surprises are looking for you. The kind nature of Lvivans is world wide known.

Lviv can propose lots of fun to the thousands of foreign visitors who arrive in Lviv, for holidays stay in George hotel Lviv

Don't miss to enjoy all places of interest during your staying.

How to Spend an Amazing Family Holiday?

You want to spend some quality time with your dearest ones? You want to make them all happy by taking them on some place exciting and memorable, but you are not sure if they are going to like it?

Interesting Museums in Bucharest

As a city with rich historical and cultural heritage, Bucharest has a lot of interesting museums. Today I am going to write about three of them, which I think are the most remarkable.

Sightseeing in Bucharest

When I start thinking of sightseeing the first place that comes up in my head is Bucharest, Romania. This city is so amazing and full of landmarks, that you can never get bored exploring it. In fact, you may fall so much in love in it, that you will not want to leave.

Top 3 Museums in Barcelona

Barcelona is the city with one of the most well-designed museums in Europe and my goal here is to prove this, gathering the best ones or at least the most popular. It is very difficult to make such a comparison, because every museum has its own history and appearance.

Flats for Daily Rent and Hotels in Odessa

Our site proposes necessary advices for tourists who intend to come to Odessa. Odessa is a charming city in the south of Ukraine, which is located on the Black Sea seacoast.

See WICKED, The Musical

This amazing story and winner of over 35 major awards including the Grammy and three Tony’s Wicked is the story that precedes the story of The Wizard of Oz. This tongue in cheek storyline chronicles the highly unlikely friendship between the two opposing character witches in the Wizard of Oz; The Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good. The story takes place long before Dorothy is even mentioned. Reviewers have called the production one of the best prequels ever delivered to such an iconic story. The pressure was on to craft a compelling tale, and these producers have done just that.

Grab the night music flows

In a city like Barcelona you can always be on top, especially if your primary idea is to have more fun and entertainment. In fact, one vacation can turn into amazing journey through the many clubs and party places in Barcelona. Every house music lover knows that this is the country where there are plenty of dance clubs performances every single night with different varieties of sounds. And, I cannot forget to mention the hottest place in Spain - Ibiza. Every single summer in Ibiza we can be a witness to the

The architecture in Barcelona is everything

Most of you have probably heard about Barcelona, if not being lucky enough to visit the most marvelous and fascinating place on earth, Barcelona. If you ask someone about this city that makes it so preferable for holidays or even to move there forever, there will probably be all kinds of explanations how beautiful the nature is, how stable the economy is and what a great life one could live in there. All these is true, but it is not the nature or the economy that makes the city so different from any other place,

3 of the most incredible buildings in London

Compared with other cities in England London is still taking the first place when it comes to architecture masterpieces. Of course buildings could not be the only reason for tourists to choose the city as their vacation destinations. Despite the bad weather and unhealthy food English capital is taking home of numerous historical landmarks reminding about the previous glory of this country.

So after you arrange your accommodation in some of the hotels or pick your rent holiday apartment London you can make a tour and check those top 5 amazing buildings.

The Lloyds Building undoubtedly is one of the most amazing architecture creations for its time. Build in 80s of the nineteen century the headquarter of one of the biggest English banks looks more like the building from the future with its futuristic design.

The dream of Barcelona

There is one city in the European map that is always shining with its beauty and smiley people. If you want to go on vacation, but still figure where to go just book the plane ticket to Barcelona. You will not regret due to the fact that this city mix amazing new architecture defined by the many new modern building in the center and amazing old architecture being a influential factor over Barcelona development. People understood how important is this for them and that this particular factor brings millions of tourists every single year. The city government has been investing a lot of money on city original view in order to keep this priceless treasure.

Need a rest from a long trip

People adore to travel a lot when they have the ability and chance. In most cases this is related to  financial situations. Some people don’t have the opportunity to afford more than one holiday outside their country. Of course, there are people who prefer to be outside their homes as much as possible. Such people want to visit all the big cities in the world, meet the culture and even find new fields of investments.
One of the cities that really deserve attention is the United Kingdom capital of London. Probably every person is familiar with how powerful and developed this urbanized area is. It’s a sophisticated place for lots of royalties and celebrities.

Vacation in London with Children

What you are going to do on your vacation in London depends on that whether you are going alone or with your family. There are many things you can do and many places you can visit if you decide to go with your children.

Your little ones will be fascinated by the London Zoo. It houses some of the largest lizards in the world, over 12 000 insects, fishes, reptiles, birds and mammals. If you plan a day or two in the Zoo you can be sure that your children will spend a fun time while studying the animals and their habits.

Another place you can take them is the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood. Your children will love the exhibits of nursery antiques, child's costumes, dolls and other toys. The Museum has planned so many activities for children that they won't want to leave even if they spend a whole day in it.

The most famous architecture faces of Venice

Venice is one of the cities in Europe that is known for its buildings and architecture style. It is the city of artists, musicians, comedians, writers and also architects. For Instance Andrea Palladio is the most famous Venetian architect. It is known because of the fact that from his name, the term “palladiano”, which actually means Palladio’s style, takes inspiration referring to a style that has to do with Roma and Greek Classicism.

Many churches, villas, urban residences are designed by Palladio. One of the most famous is Valenza- the Olympic Theatre. Some other significant works of his are San Georgio Maggiore and the villa “La Rotonda”.

To sleep in the airport is not that much comfortable

There is time, when a lot of flight have been cancelled cause from the bad weather conditions. Nobody, can escape from this, especially the people in Europe. Sometimes, the weather conditions could be devastating and a lot of people cannot reach their final destinations. The main problem is that people blame the securities and different agencies, why this is their problem and etc. Its better to take off later, without any life risk, because the world have already been a witness of tragic s, leaving painful moments for the mankind.

Rome- a place for kids too

You are planning to spend several days in Rome, but you can't leave your children alone at home, so of course you will organize a family holiday in the Italian capital. And wonder if it is a place that your kids would find as interesting and funny!? Actually Rome is a tourist destination that provide many fun things to do, especially for the little kids. Whether it is visiting the nooks and crannies of the Colosseum, climbing up Castel Sant' Angelo, checking out ancient Roman monuments or even running down the Appian Way your kids will feel pleased and attracted by ancient places and tombs.

Algarve. Portugal- a perfect destination for tourists

Algarve, Portugal is one of the most visited destinations all over the world, mostly because the sunny days there are 300 in the year. It is an ideal place for family vacations, especially for those that are keen on outdoor life. There are many attractions such as water parks, boat trips, dolphin shows, karting and not only for children. For those that prefer lazy days there are long sandy beaches, so you can lay on the golden sand, sipping your cocktail and enjoying the sun.