The Travel Pages is an informative and inspirational travel website where we share stories and photographs of the fascinating people and places we’ve come across on our travels. We highlight activities we’ve loved and attractions that have impressed us. And we give honest reviews of our top places to stay, eat and drink.
Mike Gerrard experiences camel-trekking with Bedouin guides in Egypt’s Sinai Desert.
Mike Gerrard visits Merida, the capital of Mexico’s state of Yucatan, and visits the museums and restaurants and discovers a little magic.
A visit to two eco-friendly hotels on Jamaica, with some mountain hiking, birdwatching and river-rafting included.
Mike Gerrard hires a private taxi for a day trip around Tunis and Cape Bon in Tunisia
Lyon’s delights include the Musee des Beaux-Arts, the chocolate-maker Bernachon, bouchons, and the Croix-Rousse silk weaver district.
Mike Gerrard goes walking (and driving) in Memphis, visiting Graceland, Beale Street and hearing the Reverend Al Green’s Tabernacle Choir.
Mike Gerrard visits the amazing market in Chichicastenango in Guatemala, which results in a visit to see a Mayan ceremony in the cemetery.
The best things to do in Toulouse include Europe’s biggest space museum, the Place du Capitole, Basilica Saint-Sernin and museums like the Musee des Augustins.
The Travel Pages talks to Sydney Allicock, who runs a guesthouse in Samara, a village in Guyana in South America.
The cool new hotel in Amsterdam is the W Amsterdam, near Dam Square and a short walk from Centraal Station, reviewed here by Mike Gerrard.
The Travel Pages reviews the Waterside Hotel in Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, and finds haggis heaven in their restaurant.
One of the best and oldest Mallorca resort hotels is the Bon Sol Resort and Spa, a family-run eco-friendly hotel with three pools, two restaurants and a spa.
Mike Gerrard takes a Newcastle city tour with a Blue Badge Guide and learns more about the city’s history than any guidebook can teach you.
The Travel Pages picks ten of the top things to do in Taos, New Mexico.
Mike Gerrard travels to Alabama and Tennessee to see where his music hero Hank Williams grew up and is buried.
Mike Gerrard visits Mobile in Alabama, home of the USA’s First Mardi Gras, and meets Chief Slacabamorinico.
The Travel Pages visits Jesmond Dene House in Newcastle and reviews this boutique hotel… and its signature Chocolate Sphere dessert!
The famous Manneken Pis statue in Brussels, Belgium, has his own Fashion Day when he wears costumes by Jean Paul Gaultier, Delvaux and others.
The Travel Pages takes a wine tour at Eberbach Abbey in the Rheingau wine region of Germany, near Frankfurt, with tastings in the monastery’s historic rooms.
The Travel Pages reviews the new Radisson RED Brussels hotel in Belgium.