Travel Freak

The rankings are always in fashion especially in summer, so there retabling that of ten “Beach Town” summer 2008 second Tripadvisor. It seems that our country face to master, given that our two famous beaches, liguria to the Amalfi coast, dealing respectively the first and fourth place in the standings.

At the top of the podium with the five lands Monterosso al Mare, Italy. And on this there is little to say, given the beauty of the place. A second Fira Greece, which is the main city of Santorini in the Cyclades (which I personally love, as you already read). Bronze Medal second Tripadvisor in Menton in France. Again Italy in fourth spot with beautiful Amalfi. Below the sea port of Propriano in Corsica, St Ives, Cornwall, Ibiza in the Balearic Islands, Nerja still in Spain (but this time in Andalusia), Lagos (the one in Portugal, not the former capital of Nigeria) and finally with Spain still Cadaques in Costa Brava.So worried bout of Europe, although probably many and many cities and equally beautiful beaches were not considered, which do you think?

The lake is considered one of the most beautiful areas across England. Large 885 square miles, is better known as Cumbria and its territory was created a great national park. It is a rich and varied, in which insist big cities and small villages with houses built in stone. The landscape is dominated by deep valleys, rivers, streams, waterfalls and of course lakes are about 15 mirrors of water which gave its name to this region. There are many signals passage of Roman troops, whose traces are the most obvious fortifications overlooking the hills and roads that still resist the valley, while the period Norman remains the imposing castles.

The area lakes also offers several other attractions: among these are the mines of stone and iron dug by the Romans, exploited by the Germans in the 16 st century and then even more intensely after the industrial revolution, the steam train, built in 1869 and today dedicated to exploring the region, a Via Ferrata that allows fans to the thrill and experts of mountaineering, along the crest of a mountain standing firmly hooked to a steel rope. The Via Ferrata exploits steps constructed Victorian era to bring to the valley stones extracted from the mines, following a path that especially in winter was to be decidedly difficult. Here you can discover all the attractions of Cumbria Lake District and here you will find the map of trails and attractions in the area.

Porthcurno is a small town in England, more than anything known to be the country closer to Land’s End, the end of the Earth, the most extreme tip of Cornwall. From these parts lived at the beginning of last century, a property just outside the country, Minack House, built between the high cliffs that overlook the bay of Porthcurno, Miss Rowena Cade passionate of theatrical performances, especially those of supreme Shakespeare.

During the summer of’29, arrived in the country a touring theatrical company, which represented A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a theater set to bell’e better on a lawn. The representation had such great success that stand sitting decided to repeat the experience to Porthcurno the following year, when led staged The Tempest.

At this point intervened Miss Rowena, who offered to organise the event, finding a location more convenient. And the location was found in the garden of his property, overlooking the cliffs of the bay, specially prepared by his gardener sitting with Spartan and material of various origin. Needless to say, quell’edizione the Storm was a real success, success that convinced the imaginative Miss Rowena transform its garden in the beautiful outdoor theatre you see in photography.

Today, from June to September, the Minack Theatre are represented 17 plays put on stage by companies from all over the kingdom and sometimes even from the U.S.. A progress occasion for all those who can enjoy Shakespeare in the original language.

On Friday the Republic I found an alert interesting for fans of travel and mysteries, for devotees of 1408… This is a book, or rather a guide “The Penguin book of ghosts” (available on amazon.co.uk to 9.74 pounds) which proposes a route between skulls and ghosts for a holiday English “fear”, wandering between skulls speakers and spectra of animals without head, wives murdered and growers ghost.

A text to navigate the places contaminated with supernatural presences in which Jennifer Westwood and Jacqueline Simpson have reviewed a list of localities British assediate by ghosts.

County for the county tell the stories are more surreal: two young wives, killed at Cleeve Corner, near the village of Prestbury in the county of Gloucestershire and Armboth Hall, in the Lake District, returning to the place of the crime with a veil and bouquet. In the county of Cumbria, where stands the Muncaster Castle, from 1880 the skulls of two peasants condemned unjustly shout revenge. In the district of Kensington, east London, tells the story of a woman dead from 15 years whose ghost has appeared on the day of death of her husband.

There are not even the ectoplasmi animals: in the village of Stanney, in Cheshire, people are frightened by the spectre of un’anatra without head. And in the county of Shropshire village Hyssington is terrified by a bull with eyes fiammeggianti.

On holiday in the homes of writers

An idea of original holiday for all lovers of books? Staying in the homes of our favorite writers. Yes, maybe there happen to take tea with Stephen King or playing quidditch with JK Rowling, but would you like to put the pleasure unique and unrepeatable to rent the house of John Keats or Robert Louis Stevenson?

This bell’articolo of The Observer presents a list of places open to the public where you can relive the atmosphere from which it drew inspiration our favorite novels. Why not take advantage: for the homeless in Kent where Charles Dickens lived during the long summer holidays, between 1937 and 1959, (and where seems to have written Nicholas Nickleby) spend from 83 to 207 pounds. Without considering that, from 19 to 22 June, you can participate in Broadstairs Dickens Festival 2008.

And what they say the room number 511 of the Ambos Mundos, in Havana, where Ernest Hemingway wrote “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” which he himself described as “a good place to write.” The list is long, from Berlin where Franz Kafka stayed that to Key West described by Tennessee Williams, up to the estate in Vermont where Rudyard Kipling spent his honeymoon (and learned to ski on skis from donatigli Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the inventor of Sherlock Holmes).