Cross Fields

Advantages: serves great Aussie food
Disadvantages: Worth booking in advanced to get a table downstairs

Cross Field is an Australian bar in the centre of Vienna, on the Maysedergasse, bang slap next door to the Restaurant of Hotel Sacher and only 100 metres or so from the Opera House. Usually I expect Australian bars to be very boisterous, but this one is certainly more sedate than most. The bar is on two levels, on the ground floor there is a bar which serves your usual range and drinks, and then downstairs, in the basement there are the toilets, ...
...then there is the food. Cross Field boasts “genuine bush-tucker” and you can get all sorts of Australian food, i.e. Kangaroo meat, grasshoppers. Generally portions are large, and for the price they offer good value. The beer is normally priced, although the bottled beers do carry a slight premium. I can remember having seen anything about a happy hour, but there may be one. The table football table is a real hit, with a game (10 balls) ... Read review

Advantages: Accessible, beautiful, free
Disadvantages: Can get busy in high season

...2038 (or from Brighton, follow Dyke Road until you have crossed straight over the A27), carry straight for a few hundred yards until the road splits (it is signposted to Devil's Dyke). Follow this road until it splits again - carry straight on rather than turning sharp right - you will see signs for the Devil's Dyke pub - carry straight on and park outside the front of the Pub. Bus: The open top number 77 bus only runs from April to September, and only on weekends and bank holidays outside of July and August. You can get times from www.buses.co.uk/bustimes/tt77.pdf. ~~~Things to do:~~~ Well, the views are the reason you come here, but here are some suggestions for things to do whilst you are enjoying the views. The pub is OK if you just want a drink and you're going to sit outside - it is not the reason you'd visit Devi's Dyke... Read review

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Advantages: A Lasting Tribute to a Great British Engineer. A National Landmark. Beautiful Setting.
Disadvantages: That I do not Live Closer to it!

...between them. Huge caverns had been dug under the cliffs on both sides into which the chains and anchorage were sunk into a 20 ft bed of concrete. Once the chains had been linked together the rods from which the deck (or roadway as we would now call it) is suspended could be hung. After the long drawn out initial stages, completion of the bridge came swiftly. A VERY GRAND OPENING On 8th December 1864, the pride and delight of the population of Bristol showed. A long procession started out from Bristol city centre at 10.00am, headed by representatives of five army regiments and the Royal Navy. There were some sixteen bands, both military and civil, accompanying this procession. The route to Clifton was thronged with crowds. Following the first ceremonial crossing, six field guns fired a salute from the Leigh Woods side... Read review

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Advantages: Thousands of years - and scarcely a tourist in sight
Disadvantages: None

...they kept coming back. A natural hill on the very edges of the plain, close to the River Avon, but avoiding the marshes of its conjunctions with the Nadder and the Ebble, it's an obvious strategic site. From 5th century BC the early fortifications were simply to good to let go to waste. Whilst it is situated adjacent the main road, and there is ample car parking, if you are staying in Salisbury I would urge you approach on foot. A gentle walk of about 2 miles - no more than an hour, even if you pause among the wonderful wildflowers of the Butts or try to find your way through the rampant riparian plants to the water's edge en route. It is technically a riverside walk, but once you leave the paved city path behind, trees and tall water plants bar any sight of the Avon itself. Leaving the river, a short crossing of rising fields brings you... Read review

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