JOHN TREW reveals some more colourful attractions of the French Atlantic Coast in Part II of his exploration of Charente-Maritime...

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Northern Ireland Travel News Columnist JOHN TREW headed to the village of Milford, three miles outside Armagh, to experience some exciting attractions off the beaten track...

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Award winning journalist and regular NI Travel News contributor, JOHN TREW heads to Perthshire with his grandson Simon to check out the child-friendliness of Gleneagles...

A DIRECT hit on an air-raid shelter in Bread Street during the Belfast Blitz eliminated most of my relatives even before I was born. That’s why I never experienced a proper ‘extended family’ holiday with cousins and siblings while growing up as an only child.

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This month, JOHN TREW heads to Venice to try and escape the mid-winter blues.

Where did I go last month when I suffered a severe dose of mid-winter blues and needed to get away from our worst-ever spell of sub-zero weather followed by fog and floods?

It’s obvious - somewhere in the scorching summer sun of the southern hemisphere; golden sands crowded with tanned beauties in bikinis, and gentle surf which was warm enough to defrost my frost-bitten toes… right?

Wrong. I chose Venice, where I had only ever been in summer before; I soon learned why all the local ladies were wearing puffer jackets, four layers of make-up plus scarves and fur hats – they needed to keep January’s freezing fogs at bay as they travel on the open decks of the waterbus fleets which commute along the city’s many miles of misty canals.

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