501 Places

This week’s guest post by Mark Hodson of 101 Holidays provides valuable advice for travellers on the complex and often sensitive issue of tipping, explaining the local practices for paying gratuities in different parts of the world and offering sound insights on how and when we should tip. Handing over a modest tip for good [...]

This week’s guest post comes from Violeta-Loredana Pascal, who runs a Romania-based PR agency. Lori has chosen to share with us her belief that a weekend should be a time for relaxing and not one that is interrupted by the pressures of  work. She also shows us how taking a perfect weekend break is not [...]

This week’s guest post is written by Ben Colclough, founder of Tourdust and an avid traveller. Ben shares with us his views on the world of backpacking, challenging some of the common myths that are associated with the backpacking community. He also recalls some of his own travel experiences and how they shaped those views. [...]

This week’s guest post is written by Juan Otero Rionda. I spent several days with Juan on my recent blog trip to Valencia, and during that time he described how he owns and manages a couple of rural guest houses in the beautiful countryside of Asturias in northern Spain. His passion for his home region [...]

In the latest guest post on 501 Places, well-known travel blogger Darren Cronian shares with us a love of his native Leeds and offers insider tips for those visiting his home city. For many people, when you mention the city of Leeds, they associate it with being a great place for nightlife and shopping, but [...]

This week’s guest post on 501 Places is written by Gwen McCauley. A Canadian who fell in love with Portugal on her first visit to Europe in 1975, Gwen has more recently made the country her second home. Here she shares a story from that first trip with us and describes the moment where she [...]

The latest guest post on 501 Places is written by Kathryn Bullock, a travel industry entrepreneur who has just returned from a solo trip to Nepal. Kathryn shares with us a glimpse of her 6 day Himalayan trek and gives some valuable insights into her experiences of visiting Nepal as a solo female traveller. Following [...]

The latest guest post on 501 Places is by Jerry Kubica. Jerry was born in Poland but during his early childhood had to survive the horrors of the war and deportation before arriving and settling in England. He set up the Our Roots Trust project to explore the roots of those imprisoned and killed in [...]

The latest guest post on 501 Places is from good friend and fellow St Albans resident Veronica Cooper. Recently home from a trip to the East Coast, Veronica makes her debut in the world of blogging by sharing some of the highlights of her time in one of my favourite US cities: Boston. Over to [...]

For this week’s guest post I’m pleased to welcome travel writer and author Andy Hayes. Andy has chosen to  share his love of Amsterdam and give us an insight into the city and its people, taking us beneath its better-known surface. I wasn’t born in Amsterdam, nor is Dutch my native language. But Amsterdam is [...]