Gerry Kerkhof

Londen

Top 10 Attractions in London

27 March, 2015

With over 17 million annual visitors London now ranks ahead of Paris as Europe’s most visited city, recent statistics being buoyed by major events including the hosting of the Olympic Games and the birth of Prince George of Cambridge. In the long term it’s the city’s history, royal family, world famous attractions, fascinating museums and its irrepressible theatre scene that make the English capital one of the world’s great cities. Typically our American cousins have accounted for the largest volume of tourists by nationality but an interesting new trend shows a remarkable surge in numbers arriving from the Far East.

Edinburgh

Edinburgh, literary heritage

16 March, 2015

In 1828 William Burke and William Hare murdered sixteen people and sold their bodies to Professor Robert Knox for dissection during his anatomy lectures at the local university. The tale of the Burke and Hare murders was the theme of Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story called ‘The Body Snatcher’ (1884) and has been the basis for numerous media productions over the years. Two years later Stevenson published the better know ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ which has inspired more than a hundred film interpretations. Another famous gentleman who studied medicine at the same university as the one

Berlin

Top 10 Tourist Attractions in Berlin

6 March, 2015

Emerging from the dark and devastation of World War II, Berlin is symbolic of a modern and dynamic European city where people from throughout the continent can come together in celebration of our new found peace and unity. Throughout the capital of modern Germany there are reminders of a past never to be repeated, none more so than the inner city car park where a simple plaque identifies the ‘Führerbunker’ where Adolf Hitler committed suicide at the end of the war. The city has long moved on from the ravages of Nazism discreetly erasing most landmarks pertaining to that regime

Tallinn

Tallinn

16 December, 2014

The charming city of Tallinn is the capital city of Estonia, the most northerly of the Baltic states. It lies just 80km south of Helsinki on the Gulf of Finland. Many Westerners assume that these states were part of the former Soviet Union until its break up in the early 1990s yet this is hardly the case as almost all Western Governments continued to recognize Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as sovereign states which were illegally occupied from 1940 until 1991 when the USSR was finally dissolved. Estonia was very quickly able to throw off the shackles of Communism and re-establish

Corvara in Badia. The Dolomites

THE DOLOMITES

4 November, 2014

The development of regional airports is a tried and tested way of providing a significant economic boost to local economies. A case in point is that of Bergamo in the foothills of the Alps which has never looked back since 2003 when it became a base for the budget airline Ryanair and was marketed as Milan (Bergamo). Today it is Italy’s 4th busiest airport dealing with around 9 million passengers per year. On the other hand there are the small regional airports such as Bolzano—Dolomiti in the Dolomite mountains which lies within a very short distance of some of Italy’s

Austria

Skiing in Austria: Kitzbuhel, Mayrhofen and Ischgl

27 October, 2014

For many Europeans over a certain age it was the Austrian skier Franz Klammer who not only put Austria on the map but also presented skiing as an activity we really ought to try. He won the downhill gold medal at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and was a fixture in our living room in the winter months of the late 1970s as we cheered him on during the weekly BBC TV programme ‘Ski Sunday’. This experience was a key influence in nagging my parents to take us to Austria for our first holiday abroad a few years later

Sierra Nevada

SIERRA NEVADA

16 October, 2014

On the “bucket list” of many of the hedonists of the world is the opportunity to ski in the morning and swim in the sea in the afternoon. Whilst few places in Europe offer this wonderful opportunity, you may be surprised to learn that the south coast of Spain is one of them. Just 120km from the popular holiday resort of Nerja on the eastern Costa del Sol is the ski resort of  Sierra Nevada. You can leave Nerja at 7 o’ clock in the morning and be collecting your ski pass by 8.30am. After a morning on the slopes

The three valleys

As you ski on pristine Alpine snow

6 October, 2014

 As you ski on pristine Alpine snow, surrounded by glaciers with glorious winter sunshine beaming down on your back you can only be in one place … Les Trois Vallées. From the highest slopes you marvel at the vistas of countless mountain peaks in the French, Swiss and Italian Alps knowing that life doesn’t get better than this. The Three Valleys lie in the French Alps just 185km from Geneva Airport. With over 600km of skiable slopes this is the world’s largest ski area where an impressive network of ski resorts are interconnected thanks to more than 180 modern ski

Skiing and Sangria on the Slopes of Andorra

30 September, 2014

The tiny principality of Andorra lies in the high Pyrenees between Spain and France. It is best known for its ski resorts and its duty free shopping which are the main factors in attracting more than ten million annual visitors. The altitude of the region is comparable with Alpine ski resorts reaching a peak at Coma Pedrosa which stands at 2.942 metres. Typically the skiing is popular with families and is ideal for beginners whilst the après-ski is amongst the liveliest of Europe’s ski resorts. One major advantage that Andorra has to offer over alternative ski destinations is its southerly latitude which often results in beautiful blue skies during much of the annual ski season which usually runs from mid-December until April. Visitors will also be pleased to find that accommodation, lift passes and entertainment in general tend to be significantly cheaper than in comparable Alpine resorts.

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