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Guimaraes

Being Enchanted by Misty Mount Penha in Guimarães

January 12, 2012 Jack 0

There’s something about sitting in a flimsy cabin heading into a thick shrouded blotting out the landscape that sends a thrill skipping down the spine, especially as there was no one else making the trip into the unknown… […]

Guimaraes

Nightlife in Guimarães

January 11, 2012 Jack 0

There’s a bit of a blur between coffee shops, cafés and bars in Portugal with some places having a different personality after dark. Most cafés in Guimarães sell beer, wine and spirits. […]

Food & drink

Food & Restaurants in Guimarães

January 10, 2012 Jack 4

From sausages that aren’t sausages, pastries that look as though one bite could pile on the pounds, snack foods galore in cosy cafés and sophisticated fare in stylish restaurants… […]

Food & drink

Alheira, the Portuguese Sausage that wasn’t a Sausage

January 9, 2012 Jack 0

Chicken, beef, partridge and, or quail is mixed with wheat bread, garlic, olive oil and a secret mix of spices and made into a horseshoe shaped sausage which can be fried, grilled or barbecued… […]

Porto

A Big Mac & a Buff, the Shoe Shiners of Porto

January 6, 2012 Jack 0

There’s something elegantly old fashioned about a city that still has shoe-shiners on its streets but then Porto is elegantly old fashioned in many ways… […]

Africa

Arriving In Essaouira at Night and Being Clueless

December 28, 2011 Jack 0

“BACK OFF PAL,” my voice reverted to a guttural west of Scotland accent as thick as a treacle scone as I did what everyone advised me not to do. I lost my temper. In fairness I felt I had good cause. A hand had grabbed my shoulder from behind… […]

Great Britain

A Lover’s Welcome in Scotland

December 23, 2011 Jack 0

I just love this statue in Buchanan Street bus station in Glasgow – it speaks of innocence, of hope, of travel, of desperately missing those you love and that most romantic of movie visions… […]

Costa Brava

Quaint Coves and Colourful Cliffs Sailing the Costa Brava Seas

December 19, 2011 Jack 0

Our voyage on this lovely looking sail boat is taking us along the Costa Brava coast from Palamòs to Tamariu for a special lunch date, skirting an undulating coastline whose beauty must distract the eye of even the most experienced sailor. […]

Food & drink

Traditional Food on La Gomera, Almogrote

December 10, 2011 Jack 5

Alomogrote is traditionally made by using a pestle and mortar to mix very mature hard cheese, garlic, pepper, chillies, ripe tomatoes, pepper and olive oil until it… […]

Hiking

The Best of What to See & Do on La Gomera

December 10, 2011 Jack 3

Everyone who knows La Gomera will wax lyrical about its natural and unspoiled beauty. But what is there to actually do and see on the island? Here are 10 suggestions. […]

Hotels

The Pick of Hotels and Accommodation on La Gomera

December 9, 2011 Jack 0

Having visited La Gomera on many occasions this is our pick of the best hotels, apartments and pensions around the island. […]

Hiking

Choosing the Best Place to Stay on The Canary Island of La Gomera

December 8, 2011 Jack 2

Contrary to popular travel mythology, La Gomera isn’t a tourist free, natural paradise that is only populated by local farmers who communicate using a whistling language called silbo… […]

Asturias

Utopian Vision or Fantastical Folly, The Laboral City of Culture in Gijón

November 30, 2011 Jack 0

Despite its age, there is something not quite of this world about the Laboral Cuidad de Cultura. It is pleasing to the eye for sure, but there is a strangeness to it… […]

Food & drink

5 Steps to Learning to Love Olives

November 24, 2011 Jack 2

All you need for this is an olive-hater, a bowl of olives (green preferably) and a crowd of onlookers who will be suitably amazed when this experiment is proven to work. […]

Asturias

Cabrales and Gamoneu, Seductively Good Blue Cheeses from Asturias

November 23, 2011 Jack 0

After a feast that included scorpion fish pate, hake tortilla and navajas (razor fish) I was faced with a plate of Cabrales – one of the most famous of blue cheeses in Asturias… […]

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It’s Tenerife but not as you know it – THE BANANA ROAD by Buzz Trip’s Andrea Montgomery

Click to buy The Banana RoadWhen Andy and Jack buy a small house on a pitch ‘n’ putt golf course surrounded by banana plantations in the north of Tenerife, they encounter an eccentric neighbour who hints at a double life as an espionage agent; the Disney Gang; and a white cat with no tail, and a penchant for torture. An arrest and a sudden death turn their world upside down and open the door to a series of seemingly unrelated incidents. As Jesus takes up residence in the bottom of the garden and paradise begins to unravel, the shocking truth is finally uncovered and Andy and Jack face losing everything. CLICK HERE TO BUY THE BANANA ROAD

Portugal off the beaten track – Camel Spit & Cork Trees by Buzz Trip’s Jack Montgomery

Camel Spit & Cork Trees is an evocative travelogue covering areas of Portugal that still lie below most visitors' radar. When travel writers Andy and Jack Montgomery swap Tenerife for Portugal, they embark on a journey that takes them from the Algarve's honey-coloured coastline to the verdant valleys of the Minho, and from life on a smugglers’ trail in Alentejo’s border country to a farm beside a cork forest near Lisbon... [CLICK HERE TO BUY THE BOOK]

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