“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” Like you, Michael Palin, I too am afflicted. My remedy was to organise a trip to Europe, visiting some places on my list that I hadn’t yet...
Your son phones from Berlin and announces he has just gotten engaged and will be marrying in England in the northern summer. What to do? Contact Maverick Travel and begin planning a holiday around the wedding. That’s what to do. The wedding was to be held in...
Prague is too complex a destination to do credit to in just a few sentences, so I will sum it up as simply a place well worth visiting. Following a second night in Prague, the coach moved on into Slovakia and a lunch time stopover in its capital Bratislava. Once...
We have recently returned from a guided coach tour in Europe. This is the second such tour we have done in Europe but with an interval of almost 18 years in between. I recall before the first tour having some doubts about the whole concept of guided tours in general,...
It started like any other day in Italy. We were waiting for an open-top bus to take us from Amalfi to the hill-top town of Ravello. I was looking forward to this day – a beautiful town and a scenic walk back. It was Sunday. The bus drove up crowded, narrow roads and...
I always wished to go to England by ship, so this year the opportunity arose. My friend Pam and I, both widowed, left Sydney on the 28th of February, for the most fantastic time of our lives. 48 days of fun and food, on the Arcadia. We travelled from Sydney via New...
