Experiences are best shared with your nearest and dearest. So chuck out the pipe and slippers and take your dad on an awesome adventure. The daddy of all bucket lists – we’ve got some travel ideas that will really pamper pops.
Here, just in time for Father’s Day this Sunday, are 12 places to travel with your dad. Epic adventures and experiences that are, lets face it, not just fun for dad’s they’re pretty ace for everyone. Which one would you choose for a trip with your dad? Let us know in the comments box below…
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Central America is the kind of place that will chew you up, spit you out, and leave you a worn out mess. In the very best way possible.
This is a region with serious adventure potential, but more than that, it’s also rich in heavenly beaches and the kind of cultural triumphs that will leave you awestruck. We’re all looking for those moments that will, quite literally, leave us speechless and Central America is over flowing with them.
Belize, Coast Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama, the countries that make up Central America, are spoilt with Mayan temples, imposing volcanoes, thick jungles, vibrant cities and traditional villages – where residents still farm coffee and sugar as they did hundreds of years ago. There’s a huge amount to see, so we’re handily helping you out with our very own High Five of Central America’s best bits.
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Another Friday means another opportunity to ask our Travel Experts your burning travel questions. If you want to put your own question to Claire or Amy, send them an email now and they’ll answer for you right here on the blog soon.
But, for now, it’s back to this week and a question sent in from Danny in Cardiff, go for it Danny…
I’m a massive football fan, any trips you can recommend where I can incorporate sport and travel? Danny, Cardiff
Great question! There are a number of ways in which you can combine travel and sport, so let’s see what Claire suggests for you…
Cape Town is beautiful and the perfect place to combine travel and sport.
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The Scandinavian countries of Europe (which I’ve defined as Norway, Sweden and Denmark, although often Iceland and Finland are included too) are often over looked when contemplating European travel, in favour of the warmer, and more tourist heavy, countries of Spain, Italy and Greece.
However, Scandinavia has something extreamly interesting to offer, a range of diverse experiences to suit every type of traveller from rare and intriguing wildlife, to thriving, too cool for school, urban centres and deserted and dramatic landscapes.
Each Scandi country is unique in its own right, but for the purposes of this post I’m joining them together, and choosing my five top experiences in super Scandinavia.
The may look cute but you might want to keep your distance...
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Photographs are the most precious reminder of a trip, or travel experience, that has really captured our imagination, so it’s important that they’re as good as they possibly can be.
Believe it or not, you don’t necessarily need to spend hundreds of pounds on an amazing all singing, all dancing, professional camera, to take great travel photos. A little knowledge and some crafty adjustments around how you take your shots can make a huge amount of difference to the quality of the finished product.
To offer some tips and advice on how to achieve that is Vanessa ‘Ness’ Cohen. Ness is a professional freelance photographer having recently finished her Masters in Photography, and she’s a massive travel fan too. She has recently travelled to the Southern States of North America and before that, spent time working with STA Travel and travelling Europe as a photographer for the images in our Europe brochure.
Ness is here to share her 12 simple tips to help you make your next batch of travel photos stand out, for all the right reasons.
Consider your light when taking a picture. PhotosByness.
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