501 Places

Welcome to the second of our series of My Home Pride stories. Each week we feature a guest writer who will tell us about somewhere special from their childhood, and why that memory is so dear to them. The second author is travel agent and founder of Traveldudes, Melvin Boecher. Melvin has chosen to take [...]

Most people visit this corner of Andalucia for one purpose – to see the Alhambra palace. A Moorish fortress as well as a palace, the Alhambra is truly one of Europe’s most impressive visits. Always crowded, and by all accounts very difficult to gain admission without prior booking, the World Heritage site attracts swarms of [...]

This is advice often given to aspiring writers. It strikes me as equally valid advice to almost any job, but particularly the role of agents and brokers, where there is an option for their clients to buy the same products and services directly rather than use them. On a number of occasions I have been [...]

Flying home yesterday, I watched as all the usual antics were on display and wondered if there is a better way. I’m sure airline ops teams have been working on this issue for many years, but I thought I would share some light musings on how behaviour that appears to be normal when catching a [...]

After five days in Tallinn, we are on our way home. It’s been a busy yet relaxing week, and I will leave Estonia with many happy memories (and a few pounds heavier too!) This morning we saw a little more of the Old Town and noticed how much more activity there was as the weekend [...]

It’s hard to beat a whole day spent surrounded by beautiful and varied landscapes, finding some great short hikes to do, and hardly meeting another person for the whole time in the park. We had set off from Tallinn in our rental car (very expensive compared to UK/US prices: around £55 for the smallest car). [...]

We finally dedicated a full day to see Tallinn today, and use our Tallinn Cards (24 hours of included sights and activities within Tallinn). Having stayed in the city, we have been waiting for the right day to visit. On Monday many of the museums are closed, and on Tuesday we had ventured out to [...]

Our third night in Tallinn, and we are yet to explore the Old City in daylight! That is the plan for tomorrow, but today we took the chance to venture out of town, 100km out to be precise, to a small coastal spa town of Haapsalu. Once we finally found the right bus station (how [...]

Everything in Tallinn is close; most things are certainly within walking distance. This is a view from Pirita Beach, apparently popular in the summer but today almost deserted, looking back towards the Old Town, little over an hour’s walk away. Having learned that most museums in Tallinn are closed on Mondays, we decided to take [...]

One of the nice things of writing on the road is that you can capture your feelings, your impressions and your experiences as they happen. They are not altered by subsequent events; events which may confirm, contradict or deem irrelevant that which you noted at the time. Arriving in Tallinn, my initial impressions were a [...]