Here are the winners of the Travel Rants Consumer Awards. Congratulations to all the winners and especially to Trip Advisor which won in two categories, Best Travel Planning and Best Holiday and Hotel Reviews. I’ve added my own comments about the various travel content sites.
Best Travel Blog
Traveling Mamas
The Europe a la Carte blog […]

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You could enjoy a budget “do-it-yourself” Winter Sun holiday in the Alicante region in Spain for as little as £133 per person, based on two sharing.

Streets of Alicante

Flights - £52 per person based on return flights from Edinburgh to Alicante with Ryanair costing £52 per person, paying with Visa Electron to avoid card fees of […]

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We’re planning our reccy to southern Spain in our quest to find Our Own Place in the Sun. We want to cover the area from east of Gibraltar up the coast to Valencia. We want to get a feel for the different areas and properties. We’ll visit early in 2009, so we can […]

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Travelodge UK are offering rooms for only £12 for stays between 21 December 2008 and 25 January 2009 if you book by Sunday 7 December. It’s a great price for a room with a private bathroom and a family room can sleep up to two adults and two children.

There’s pretty good availability of £12 […]

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Looking for a new theme to your next holiday?  Want to know more about eco-tourism or environmentally-friendly tourism?  Then maybe you should pick up Frommer’s latest guide, 500 Places to See Before They Disappear.  
 
 Disappearing into the light…. Copyright Andrew Hayes
 
The first time I saw this title, I was overwhelmed with sadness.  Were things getting so […]

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I’ve talked before about cruising to south-west German towns like Bad Wimpfen before, but the winter season offers something even more impressive, I think - the Altdeutscher Weihnachtsmarkt or Old German Christmas Markets.
Germans tend to create fantastic Christmas markets wherever you look, but the ones at Bad Wimpfen are particularly special. For a start, the […]

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If you enjoy reading the Europe a la Carte blog, please vote for it as Best Travel Blog in the Travel Rants Consumer Awards. Europe a la Carte has some pretty stiff competition in this category with nominations for the Traveling Mamas, Tripso and the Soul Travelers3 blogs.

There are plenty of other categories […]

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Northumberland Lights staged several installations in their State of Berwick upon Tweed programme, in conjunction with the 2008 Inner States Berwick upon Tweed Film Festival from 28 to 30 November 2008. Below is a selection of photos of the illuminations and shows.

Illumination of the Berwick Barracks

Music and Lights Show at Berwick Barracks

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When most visitors want to see castles in Germany they do a cruise of the Rhein, where turreted towers are perched on every other hill top overlooking the river thoroughfare. All too often, the summer castles of the Prussian kings in Potsdam, just outside Berlin, are overlooked.
Park Sanssouci houses numerous castles, grottos, temples and extensive […]

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Do you have friends and relatives in Scandinavia but no idea what to get them for Christmas/ Hanukkah/ Kwaanza/ other politically correct and officially approved winter holiday? No worries, SAS can help.
Though normally SAS is as useless as … (I shall refrain from using harsh words here, ‘tis the season after all, and I ought […]

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