Travel Index - Europe
CONTINENTAL EUROPE
Reviewing the principal countries, cities and regions of
Eastern and Western Europe, Balkans and around the Mediterranean, for those
who now have the money and time to enjoy travel in comfort.
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Special holiday packages designed to be of interest to over 50s -
click here for a selection of interesting holidays,
breaks and travel options
WHAT YOU WILL
FIND ON EACH PAGE
On each destination page, the main text describes what each
location can offer the over-50 traveller.
The Travel Facts
panel lists out key information details such as Coming Events,
Health, age-related discounts etc.
Advance reading about a destination enhances the on-the-spot enjoyment. We recommend a few
selected books for each location.
Most of the books are available from Amazon at discounts
between 10 and 30 percent off the list price. Just click on the hyperlink, or on a picture
of the book jacket.
On each page is a link which returns you to the index.
Travel and Holidays in laterlife is edited by award winning
travel writer Hugh Taylor- author of innumerable Magazine and Newspapere
articles and many guidebooks.
Hugh brings his extensive experience to bear to provide an over 50s flavour to each of the
destinations he describes.
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AUSTRIA
SALZBURG -
Celebrating Mozart
SALZKAMMERGUT
- Sounds of Music with plenty of salt
VIENNA - Waltzing around the
capital
BALKAN COUNTRIES
DUBROVNIK -
Star city of the Adriatic
ISTRIA makes a
come-back
MACEDONIA -
Mini Switzerland of the Balkans
BALTIC COUNTRIES
ESTONIA
- plenty to sing about
HELSINKI - go when the sun
shines
LATVIA - Varied
weekend in Riga
LITHUANIA - The bumpy road to
Vilnius
BELGIUM
BELGIUM - Flanders in a
nutshell
ANTWERP for
Rubens and rocks
BRUGES - fast
track to the Middle Ages
BRUSSELS - visiting a Grande
Place
FLANDERS
- Visit Ypres for Flanders Fields
GHENT - A central
base for Belgium's art cities
CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE
BUDAPEST - Try a
short brek
KRAKOW - the pub capital of
Poland
MOSCOW - See the
transformation for yourself
PRAGUE - Pulling back the Czech
curtain
SLOVAKIA - for
old-time price levels
FRANCE
ALSACE – Horizons d’Alsace for accommodation, walking cycling food and wine holidays.
ALSACE – Mulhouse - Festivals and Car museum
ANNECY - French coach touring
by TGV train
BRITTANY COAST
- St Malo and the Emerald Coast
BURGUNDY - Go
cruising by luxury barge
CARCASSONNE - French Fairy Tale City
CHAMPAGNE TRAIL
starting at Troyes
LOIRE VALLEY - The Garden of
France
MENTON - where
lemon trees bloom year-round
NICE - exploring the Riviera
PARIS - Open season for
loving
PARIS - See it
dressed up for Christmas
GERMANY
BERLIN - the sparkling
face-lift
GERMAN XMAS MARKETS
visit Cologne and Aachen
HAMBURG - Much
more than strip shows
RHINE - Enjoy a classic
Rhine/Moselle cruise
GREECE
ATHENS - Centre yourself
HALKIDIKI - the secret
Greek paradise
HOLLAND
HOLLAND-BIKES - Geared up
for cycling
HOLLAND-BULBS -
Flower-lovers' special
ITALY
ITALY CUISINE
- Finding your way around the menu
NAPLES - What to see and do
ROME - doing as the Romans do
ROME - Walking in the Eternal City
CAPENA- Picturesque village just North of Rome
TRENTINO - on sunny side
of the Alps
TURIN
- viewing the Turin Shroud
TUSCANY - Tasting the flavour
VENICE - City without wheels
MEDITERRANEAN
CYPRUS -
enjoy the off-season sunshine
GIBRALTAR -
fortress into tourist resort
LUXOR - Luxury living and the
pharaohs
MALLORCA
-
Breakaway to the Spanish grandee rural life
TUNISIA - the sandy-beach
oasis.
PORTUGAL
PORTUGAL -
Touring from Oporto to Lisbon
SCANDINAVIA
FAROES - In the footsteps of Tim Severin and St Brendan
SPAIN
CATALONIA - the inland and
coastal riches
COSTA BRAVA - finding peace
along the coast
MADRID -
why you should go
off-season
MALLORCA -
Breakaway to the Spanish grandee rural life
GALACIA - Historic Santiago de Compostela
SWITZERLAND
SWISS RAIL
- running like clockwork
TURKEY
TURKEY - The
south coast paradise of Oludeniz and Lykiaworld
ISTANBUL - Learn belly-dancing
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