Castlemartyr Resort, County Cork, Ireland.
Called Ireland’s hottest new city break destination, Cork City is ideal for active and green travelers.
Near the city, Castlemartyr Resort has easy access to beaches, fishing villages, bustling towns and unique attractions.
Set on 220-acres, the 103-room hotel offers activities including woodland walks with the hotel dogs; cycling; rock climbing and sea kayaking.
Finding free and green activities is easier than many travelers think. At traveling greener, we always seek out those free, green things-to-do wherever we’re traveling.
Walking may be the easiest green and free activity for travelers. Other easy options can range from cycling, visiting local markets and parks to volunteering.
Some communities support free things-t0-do for visitors like local walking tours, free museum admission and more.
If y0u’re traveling in the UK, Brighton offers these free and green options:
What is the world’s coolest flower festival? It may be the Wild Flower Festival near Bohinj in Slovenia’s Triglav National Park coming up May 22 to June 5, 2010.
In Slovenia’s alpine region, the festival will feature workshops, photography courses, art and embroidery exhibitions and English-language guided botanical tours on foot, bicycle and horseback. Visitors will learn how to cook using wild flower ingredients from the area’s meadows.
UK travel company Just Slovenia is offering special festival packages including flights, car rental, seven nights’ bed and breakfast or self-catering accommodation and the Edible Wild Flowers workshop.
For more info, check out JustSlovenia online.
Image courtesy of Just Slovenia
Feel like chilling out in Tuscany with your family? Then check out the family-friendly, Italian spa Hotel Adler Thermae Spa & Relax Resort.
In the Tuscan Hills, the 90-room retreat features sculpted pools of thermal waters for bathing, morning yoga, fitness classes, 130+ custom spa treatments and local cuisine.
Resort rooms have rich wood furnishings, warm-toned draperies and private terraces or balconies overlooking the Orcia Valley.
The Sanoner brothers, the spa owners, “like to live and feel well, relax and have their families with them”, the philosophy behind Adler Thermae.
The spa offers country walks to the village of Bagno Vignoni, nearby cheese factory or vineyards. Guests can borrow bicycles to explore the hills or go on guided excursions.
A daily schedule for children includes arts, crafts, videos, swimming, yoga, exercises and walking or bus excursions. A teen lounge features video games, hiking, mountain biking, trips to local farms and vineyards and special spa treatments.
For more info, check out Adler Thermae online.
Image courtesy of the Italian Tourist Board
Would you love to cycle Amsterdam to The Hague?
This spring, Austin-Lehman Adventures (ALA) is offering the ’springtime blooming’ cycling tour Highlights of Holland. Native-Dutchman and ALA partner Ron van Dijkhas designed the trip for 12 adult bikers at a relaxed pace of 21 to 44 miles per day.
Cycling island destinations can be exhilarating and unforgettable trips.
According to Lonely Planet, in its ‘Best in Travel 2010′ guide, one of the top cycling destinations in the world is the Isle of Wight. On and off-road cyclists fancy the island’s varied landscape of country lanes, sweeping valleys, chalk cliffs, downs and ancient woodland.
If you’re planning a day trip or short break to the Isle of Wight, bikes go free with Wightlink ferries or you can rent an island bike and have it delivered to the ferry terminal for your arrival.
Thanks so kindly for all the support in 2010!
Looking back, here are our Top 10 Blog Posts so far in 2010:
1. The World’s Most Sustainable Hotel
7. 10 Mountain Blogs You’ll Love
8. Train Safaris In South Africa
10. 10 iPhone Apps You’ll Love
Image courtesy of Hotel SO
Image courtesy of Cycling Embassy of Denmark
The COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 continues until December 18. You can check out COP15 on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Google and sites dedicated to COP15.
traveling greener thought we would again honor Copenhagen, the conference host city.
Here are 10 Copenhagen sites (we and) you’ll love:
5. Copenhagen X
Photo credit: RomePhotoBlog
Top 10 lists can be everything from fun, quirky, informative to even inspiring. What Top 10s have you loved lately in the blogosphere?
Here are the most popular Top 10s on traveling greener:
5. 10 Green Travelers on Twitter
Cyclists in Copenhagen. Image courtesy of the Cycling Embassy of Denmark
Cycling and cycling blogs are alive and kicking all over the world.
We love the street stylish blog Copenhagen Cycle Chic by journalist, film director and photographer Mikael Colville-Andersen. The blog was born in 2007 when he created a place for photos about Copenhagen’s bicycle culture on the Internet.
Colville-Andersen has teamed up with other cycling bloggers, including their angles, perspectives and photos. Since 2007, numerous Cycle Chic “collaborator & copycat” blogs and websites inspired by CCC have launched.
Says Colville-Anderson:
“Copenhagen Cycle Chic aims to take back the bike culture by showing how the bicycle once again can be an integral, respectable and feasible transport form, free of sports clothes and gear, and how it can play a vital role in increasing the life quality in cities.”
From bike culture to adventure travel, here are 10 Cycling Blogs You’ll Love:
6. Yaksite.org
8. Viking Biker
10. Riding the Spine
What is your favorite cycling blog? Share your favorites.
