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Hi everyone
We’ve made a few little updates to the way that the villa search works on villaseek.com. One thing we found is that a lot people wanted to be able to type the name of a country or region into the box on the front page and get a list of all the villas there straight away. This is now working – so, type Greece into the search box for example, and hit return and it take you straight to the Greece section:
http://www.villaseek.com/find-villa/Greece
We’ve also made it a lot easier to search for specific things. Try the following searches:
It should now be a lot easier to get to the villa you want. Let us know / drop us a comment below if you have any more feedback about options we could add to the villa search!
Tom
The new issue of Holiday Villas is out now, and will be in the shops shortly. You can also view the issue online right now, for free:
Issue 70 of Holiday Villas magazine is available to buy in shops in the UK now. We’ve also put a complete version of it for you to read online. Just click to read issue 70 of Holiday Villas Magazine.
We’ve got articles on the Costa de la Luz, a guide to holidaying in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands), a piece on Sarasota (Gulf Coast), plus loads more features — 268 pages of travel articles and holiday villa listings. I hope you enjoy reading it – and please let us know what you think, either by adding a comment below, or by getting in contact via Villaseek.com.
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Here’s our guide to a stress-free trip, from Issue 68 of Holiday Villas Magazine
Love the holiday but hate the hassle of getting there? Travel writer Gillian Thornton has 30 stress-busting tips
Following our article on Cyprus in Holiday Villas Magazine, we’ve done a few searches on the web to identify a couple of other articles.
First, up, direct travel have provided a list of top ten things to do in Cyprus, including the historic mosque of Hala sultan tekksi, the city of Famgusta, and a walk through the forests of Limassol and Machairas.
Hari Nair writes in his blog about a trip to Cyprus, and posts some pictures of the trip, and Cyprus Informer has a checklist for people renting a villa in Cyprus.
To search through a range of villas in cyprus and beyond, head to our main site, Villaseek Holiday Villas – that has a wide range of villas and apartments available direct from the owners, and many of these properties have availability calendars, so you can see if the villa is available to book for the weeks you’re intending to travel to cyprus.
Tom K
In this article from Issue 68 of Holiday Villas Magazine, Ron Toft turns his back on the beaches and bars of Cyprus to follow the tourist trail celebrating the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite.
It was an uncomfortably hot day – somewhere around 35°C – as the sun’s rays blazed down on us from a cloudless, cobalt sky. But after a 30- minute climb up the dusty, pebble- strewn track, we eventually reached the top of the hill above stunning Lemesos Bay on the south coast of Cyprus, and there, all around us, were what we had come to see: the remains within ancient Amathous of the sanctuary of Aphrodite – the Greek goddess of love and beauty, and the divine protector of the delightful Mediterranean island on which, the myth has it, she was born.
Amathousis is one of the highlights of the cultural trail comprising 36 sites, including 11 museums, associated with and celebrating Aphrodite. The first traces of a sanctuary on the acropolis date from around 800 BC, when Phoenicians settled in Amathous. Another important date on the Amathous timeline is 22 AD, which was when Rome allowed the Temple of Aphrodite – then one of the island’s three most important temples – to retain the right to offer asylum.
Aphrodite worshippers were driven from the temple when Christianity was established at the end of the fourth century AD, after which it was repaired in the fifth century and used as a church for 250 years until the site was destroyed by Arab raiders.
By far the most striking archaeological structure is a colossal stone vase – dating from the seventh century BC and weighing 12 tons – at what was the entrance to Aphrodite’s sanctuary. Originally there were two of them – the other is now on display in the Louvre in Paris. It’s thought that both vessels, quarried from the north cliff of the acropolis, held water used in purification and other rituals associated with Aphrodite.
One of the sites worth visiting as much for its natural beauty as for its connection with the goddess of love is Petra tou Romiou– the legendary birthplace of Aphrodite 15 miles east of Paphos. A series of rocks jutting out from the sea, Petra is where Aphrodite is said to have emerged from the briny foam…
You can read the full, illustrated article in our online version of the magazine.
For an article in issue 68 of Holiday Villas Magazine, Solange Hando headed to Murcia and the Costa Calida, a little-visited region of pristine coastline, lush countryside and ancient villages. Here’s an excerpt, or you can read the whole magazine article:
Spain has a glitzy Costa for every day of the week but the Costa Calida, which has only recently been discovered by foreign tourists, is a leisurely destination for discerning visitors and Spanish families. South of Alicante, in the province of Murcia, the ‘Warm Coast’ is keen to assert its individuality, and with good reason. It claims more sunny days than any other, more than 140 miles of shore fringed by crystal-clear waters and a lush hinterland dotted with historic towns and hill villages tucked among vineyards and citrus groves.
A long forgotten corner of Spain, Murcia is developing fast but, with a few exceptions, high rise sites remain refreshingly sparse, with areas of natural beauty carefully managed and protected. It offers the best of both worlds: a taste of real Spain with delightful holiday villas and amenities on your doorstep.
Ours was a short break so we headed straight for the Mar Menor Golf Resort at Polaris World, where the nine-hole course, open to non-residents, will soon be extended to 18 by the Nicklaus Design team. It plans a total of six prestigious courses, each one unique, ‘challenging and enjoyable’, suitable for all levels and landscaped to enhance the environment, enough to inspire any golfer keen to follow in legendary footsteps.
Duly impressed, the men set off to tackle the course while we vanished in search of the spa. Imagine stepping into a subdued sensuous world of sound and fragrance, closing the door on all your cares as you edge into the vitality pool, feel the warmth of the sauna or the freshness of the ice fountain, then relax in an inner patio straight out of the Arabian Nights – and all this before your treatment even begins.
Then it’s decision time, hot stone, ayurvedic, body wrap, massage or the ultimate age-defying facial? I must admit, my greatest need was for the last option and one hour and 50 minutes of blissful dreams. Cool aloe and spearmint, scented cypress, lavender, sweet almond, frankincense, avocado and more, a gorgeous garden of Eden was at work to enhance my looks, without the slightest effort on my part. My face was sprayed with extracts of ivy, jojoba oil and mallow; my eyes revitalised with an antioxidant mask and my hair massaged with pink mud. Scrubbed, moisturised and smoothed to a polish, I emerged on top of the world, hoping there would be enough time before dinner to wash the mud out of my hair.
Click to read the whole article, or search for a villa in Spain.
Hi everyone,
We’ve got a new system for viewing Holiday Villas Magazine online, directly in your browser. It’s great for our overseas readers, as it means they can get hold of the magazine and read it straight from their computer.
We’ve just produced an online version of 68, which has been on sale here in the UK since the beginning of May. Issue 69 is about to hit the shelves, and we’ll have an online version of that out very soon too.
Here’s a useful tip – interested in golf holidays, beach holidays, or holidays in a specific area? Use the binoculars icon at the bottom of the page to begin searching the document – and you’ll get a list of all the editorial and adverts which are relevant to your search.
Or if you’re an advertiser with Holiday Villas Magazine, simply enter your reference number into the search page, and you’ll be taken directly to the page where your villa advertisement appears.
Tom K Villaseek.com
Welcome to the new Villaseek.com blog – here we’ll be writing about all things to do with traveling and staying in a holiday villa, plus useful tips for villa owners.
The Costa del Sol stretches includes the bustling Torremolinos, Marbella and Fuengirola, but it’s not too tricky to get away from all that and escape the crowds to have another, very different holiday. Not far away from the large developments are small towns with villas, apartments and old converted houses. Our reporter Harry Glass dipped himself into the Andalucian lifestyle – you can read what he got up to in his article on the Costa del Sol.