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Posted in Europe, Travel

Where you stay in Yorkshire can be the difference between a nightmare and the holiday of a lifetime. Being an increasingly sort after destination, Yorkshire is far from being a comfortable solitary land that it was in the past. There could be many in numbers at one hotspots the really does make your trip different and a complete failure sometime. Normally, you would want a virgin location to be quiet where you can get drunk on the mountain air and the surrounding wilderness. But the very presence of so many visitors right from the time you start changes it all.

There are hour long spots scattered all around the place but make sure you cover them in their own natural beauty. The self catering sites like self catering do a great job of it. You get the quarters that present you that quiet stay in the heart of the nature that you so long have desired and imagined. (more…)

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Posted in Europe, Travel

Admittedly, it takes some will power to peel off your sleeping bag and get out of a car when mist still creeps across the fjells – the mountain plains in Norway – at 45°F on a chilly summer morning. However, traveling by car is the best option to explore this country, which would reach from the mouth of the Mackenzie River to Bristol Bay in the south-west of Alaska, if you transferred it from Europe to the American continent – or, in other words, it would stretch from Maine to Alabama.

The Norwegian Automobile Federation offers 268 camp sites and additionally there are about one thousand other camp and cabin sites as well as parking lots for caravans and recreation vehicles throughout the country and its fifteen national parks. Due to the Norwegian allemannsretten (everybody’s right), you may also park your car somewhere beside the road for just one night, which makes it easy to follow Norway’s national roads and enjoy the quiet lakes, dense woods, gentle hills, steep mountains, roaring waterfalls, sparkling glaciers and narrow fjords alongside. (more…)

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Posted in Asia, Travel

Have you got six months off? Do you fancy a long walk? If so, World Expeditions may have just the holiday for you. They have become the only trekking outfit to offer a guided trip along the first completed section of the Great Himalayan Trail (GHT).

Stretching for 1,700km along the length of Nepal, the GHT will take you a mere 157 days to complete. You’ll see eight of the world’s 14 peaks over 8,000m, including Everest, and cross passes reaching up to 6,000m, climbing a total of 150,000m. That’s a Snowdon every day for half a year. Oh, and it will set you back £20,500. (more…)

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