The Foody Traveller
Anna Hyman is still not sure which she preferred the most. The Hornblower Niagara Cruise, up close and personal to those awe-inspiring Falls, or the dramatic Niagara Helicopters flight over them. We were having a short break in Ontario and had flown Air Canada into Toronto’s Pearson International airport and transferred to Niagara-on-the-Lake for a […]
Light flurries of snow in January. Nothing unusual in that, Mike Hampshire decided. But wait a minute, this was an Antiguan beach under blue skies with the Caribbean sun beating down and temperatures of around 28˚C. In fact the snow flurries we were watching turned out to be hundreds of white butterflies flying jerkily across […]
Catching a horse-drawn sleigh to the Village des Enfants ski-school was as good as it got for Gillian Thomas’s two grandchildren, aged five and seven, on a multi-generational winter sports holiday at Avoriaz in France. Avoriaz is a car-free village, so instead of tramping or skiing around it, you simply summon a horse-drawn sleigh. The […]
Greece’s Halkidiki Peninsula is better known for its beaches than for its cuisine. Nevertheless, the intrepid traveller can escape the touristy tavernas and fast food to sample some of Halkidiki’s unique offerings as Chris Deliso discovered. Just east of Thessaloniki, Greece’s fun-loving second city, Halkidiki’s three peninsulars point southward into the sea: first is Kassandra, […]
Part of the new thrill-packed James Bond film Spectre was filmed in the Austrian Tirol. The Foody Traveller sent a spy there to discover more about this beautiful mountain area. Set high, very high, on the Obergurgle mountain, way above Sölden’s magnificent ski and hiking area in the Austrian Tirol, is a restaurant – Ice […]
The historic small market town of Faversham is a good reason in its own right to make a visit to Kent, but it also has a very good boutique hotel and restaurant as Anna Hyman discovered. Nestling on the bank of a creek a small settlement rapidly developed into a port. The land was fertile, […]