Azulejo tiles in Porto, Portugal
A wander around the city of Porto, Portugal exploring different styles, designs and the history of Azulejo tiles.
A wander around the city of Porto, Portugal exploring different styles, designs and the history of Azulejo tiles.
A visit to one of Porto’s top Port Cellars in Vila Nova de Gaia to find about Port’s origins in the Douro Valley, how it was invented, how it’s made, how it’s aged and most importantly what Port tastes like!
Porto is one of Europe’s prettiest cities, resting on the river Douro it’s straddled by six bridges. Buildings are decorated in beautiful blue and white azelejo tiles and painted in shades of daffodil yellow and ox-blood red. Let me take you on a Porto photo tour.
What to see do in Lisbon, where and what to eat and how to get to Belem from the city to buy the best Pastéis de nata in Portugal
In pictures – My five favourite iconic views of New York from Brooklyn Bridge to the avenue of trees in Central Park and Downtown Manhattan to Grand Central Terminal.
A road tour from Las Vegas to Nevada’s Valley of Fire State Park to see a landscape of red rock formations, petrified sand dunes, slot canyons and arches eroded by wind, water and time.
A tour of The Neon Museum and Boneyard, Las Vegas to check out the vintage neon signs which once illuminated down town Vegas and seduced weary travellers into its hotels, motels, bars and casinos. As well as getting up close and personal to these vintage Vegas signs there are tales of the early Vegas hotels and the characters that used them.
Reviewed: The Ritz Carlton Hotel, Dubai is located in the Dubai Marina district right next to the chic café-lined JBR Walk. Views stretch over landscaped gardens and the Arabian Gulf.
Dubai is diverse. I’ve put together five different characteristics of the city and its surroundings; nature, gastronomy, history, culture and shopping.Here are my top five things to see and do in Dubai.
The best Dubai food tour. We visited markets and souks and crossed the creek; we met traders and local people who shared with us their stories, their passions and spoke to us the ‘language of food’.