On our last trip to Malaga, we were delighted that we had the time to spend visiting the foodie delight that is Mercado Merced. The website offers the following information : No visit to Malaga is complete without a visit to the Atarazanas market. The market is more commonly known to Malagueños as the ‘Mercado […]
2014 has been a lovely year travel-wise. We’ve been away a lot, but we try to plan ahead and so have been lucky enough to be able to combine travel with work with finding some quite frankly, unbelieveable places. As self-employed people, we have to work when we’re away, so it’s definitely not all holiday, […]
On our travels through Italy last year, we made the decision to explore the eastern coast of Sicily and having done some online research, decided that Ortigia (in the region of Syracuse), sounded like our kind of place. We took the car ferry from Reggio Calabria to Messina (about 45 mins) – tickets are bought […]
Sometimes, if you’re travelling, you just have to do it onine, and you have to go with your gut instinct. Sometimes you get it spot on – just as we did in Matera and Rimini. But sometimes it doesn’t quite work out, and all we can do is share our experience so that you can […]
Thanks to Ruth, who works in Volta in West Didsbury, for alerting us to Trapani and to the fact that you can now fly directly from Manchester. I don’t particularly want to promote the low-cost Irish airline we flew with, as they do tend to screw every last penny out of you, but it was […]
Sadly (and there’s no pun intended here!) I do love a bit of a cemetery visit. I’m not melancholic and I don’t visit them because I like to envelope myself in misery and grief. Quite the opposite actually – I don’t like visiting cemetries where people I know are buried as I much prefer to […]
We hit lucky when we were staying in Ortigia, Siciliy – a friend tipped us off about a Buskers’ Festival which was happening in the inland town of Ragusa, and so with very little knowledge about it, other than it was happening, we hit the road… The road over to Ragusa was stunning – mountainous […]
The early morning market in Ortigia, Siracusa (Siciliy), is a sight to behold. Whilst we do have some excellent fresh produce markets here in the UK – although a shame we don’t currently have one in Didsbury (UPDATE May 16 – we do now courtesy of the monthly Makers’ Market!) – this Sicilian one blew […]