Arrive in Austin on a Friday, or a Thursday, or even a Tuesday and it doesn’t take long before you hear music, live music. It pours out of big restaurants which take up a whole block and in tiny storefronts where five is a crowd. Music is the heartbeat of this city, the pulse that…
Jane Austen died 200 years ago but her legacy lives on in Bath and Hampshire
There are many geographical spots around England where the words of Jane Austen live on two centuries later, but none are more closely linked to the author than Bath, where she set some of her novels, and the county of Hampshire, where she died. Two hundred years after her death on July 18, 1817, Jane…
Vacay Network Video: Brighton, England, a seaside resort from the Regency era
BRIGHTON, ENGLAND -Get off the train at Brighton Station and you arrive right in the city centre where the seas is so close you can smell it as soon as you step outside. In the Regency era, Brighton was transformed from a fishing village to a seaside playground for the wealthy and royalty….
Amazing Accra : How to spend 72 hours in and around Ghana’s colourful capital
By Mark Sissons, VacayNetwork Writer @marksissons ACCRA, GHANA — Tucked above the Gulf of Guinea along the infamous Gold Coast, Ghana’s capital of Accra is everything you imagine a major West African city to be – steamy, chaotic, colourful and steeped in history, much of it involving the region’s tragic legacy of slavery. Now you…