Travel

Small-Town Texas: Meat, Music and Mayhem

12 years ago Yratili

LUCKENBACH, Texas – From Laredo to El Paso, the geography of Texas has always provided a powerful lexicon for country and western lyrics.

However, when Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson rocketed the song Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love) to the top of the charts, the hit made this Texas ghost town more than just another signpost on the state’s musical highway.

The song’s success came as no big shock to fans of the genre. The surprise is just how this tiny piece of central Texas real estate has maintained fans’ fascination almost four decades after the 1970s hit.

The place is a magnet for tourists who travel to the Texas hill country every year just to wrap …

An Imbiber’s Guide to the Bahamas

12 years ago Yratili

Moments after I arrived at the airport in Nassau, a man standing behind a booth placed a complimentary Gombay Smash in my hand. After a long flight (OK, from Toronto it’s a tad over three hours), the drink went down smoothly, but I knew enough to pace myself: This would be the first rum-laden concoction of many.

My itinerary unfolded like a party animal’s dream, a five-day journey via land, air and sea from Nassau through the Exuma Islands with one objective in mind: to check out the watering holes.

It isn’t the cheapest of holidays: Bahamians have yet to create a transportation infrastructure designed for seamless, affordable island hopping. Visitors to the Out Islands must shell out for water …

Six brilliant budget hotels in…. Paris

12 years ago Yratili

Let’s hear it for the two-star hotels of Paris. For years, the talk of the town has been all about the rising tide of luxury, so it’s a huge relief to rediscover a proud tradition of hotel-keeping at the other end of the market. Yes, in some cases you have to compromise a little on location to find it, but the best of these properties are so good, you’ll feel stupid for ever having spent more.

1 Grand Hôtel Lévêque

If Rue Cler didn’t exist, the Paris tourist board would have had to invent it. Neat, pedestrianised and lined with artisan bakers, cheese shops and charcuteries, it’s one of the hottest foodie spots in the French capital. And would you …

50 Bargain Villas in Europe

12 years ago Yratili

Looking for a cheap summer break somewhere stunning? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Every one of the 50 villas and apartments here costs less than £200pp a week in the most expensive week of the school holidays.

What’s more, they’re not a bunch of Costa Concretes – each one of these properties comes with added sparkle. It might be a 13th-century Tuscan watchtower, a white-sand Atlantic beach or a view across the most celebrated landscape in Provence.

Some of them have pools, others vine-covered pergolas – and every one is in a place you and I would actually like to visit.

So, get packing. Summer is looking affordable again

FRANCE

1 Vouliguern, Ploneour-Lanvern, Brittany
£1,153, sleeps 8
This …

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