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Bilbao doesn’t exactly strike anyone as a family friendly travel destination. Situated on the banks of the river Nervión and with a mild climate, the city is an excellent choice for families with children old enough to explore museums. The rainy climate makes it difficult cu plan a day at the beach, but it’s heaven [...]
If you live in the US South, you probably know about Waffle House. Based in Georgia, this restaurant chain has locations in 25 states, most of them in the South and Southeast although there are some outliers in the Midwest, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico and as far north as Pennsylvania. It is known as a [...]
Looking for a local place to get some Western-style boots for the kids during your visit to Austin? Try Allens Boots on South Congress Avenue; the area is often referred to by the trendy term SoCo and when you’re ready to kick up your boot heels, there are fun, funky and family-friendly places to shop and eat nearby. My [...]
With a nickname like Sin City, it’s easy to overlook Las Vegas as a potential destination for a family vacation. Everyone who’s been to Vegas before has seen the scantily-clad women on billboards and taxi placards all over the city, not to mention the guys on every street corner handing out flyers with even more [...]
A dramatic skyline with glittering sky-scrapers rising above bustling streets packed with purposeful people, Atlanta, capital of Georgia, is a thriving city throbbing with entertainment, shopping malls and cultural attractions. On holiday in Atlanta it is impossible to ignore the past, its museums encapsulating the horrors of the Civil War and the hope generated bymore [...]
The commercial centre of the Texas panhandle, the city of Amarillo is also where tourists flock on holiday to experience the legendary life of the Wild West, rodeos and livestock auctions attracting cowboys and cowgirls in full regalia, set on working up a thirst in the dust to slake later in the saloon. Amarillo ismore [...]
The historic pioneering town of Australia’s “Outback”, Alice Springs started out as little more than a waterhole and a telegraph station. Then the railways and airways reached it and today the town is a busy, modern hub-bub of tourists who come on holiday to take excursions to Uluru (Ayers Rock), the daunting Simpson Desert, andmore [...]
Famous for its annual hot air balloon fiesta, Albuquerque, spread across the desert plains of New Mexico, can be appreciated on the ground too, at any time of year. The core is an historic Old Town, where museums, galleries and shopping centres fill the space where Spanish colonists first put down roots in 1706. Formore [...]
A holiday in Adelaide is relaxing and pleasant, the capital of South Australia having a Mediterranean flavour with its riverside gardens, open air cafes and intriguing art galleries. The central city, laid out on a convenient grid, is easy to explore. Among the main attractions is a multi-arts Aboriginal culture centre and a vintage trammore [...]
The vast country of India spawned the world’s oldest civilization and two of its greatest religions, Buddhism and Hinduism. Today a holiday in India is sometimes frightening, with the poverty and pollution that pervades the teeming cities, and often sublime, when one gazes at sights like the graceful Taj Mahal or soaks up the sunmore [...]