Category: News Europe

As European summers get warmer – last year’s was the hottest on record, and the previous two summers have seen devastating forest fires in countries such as Portugal and Greece […]

Tenerife has come a long way in the past two decades, shaking off its reputation as a cheap and somewhat tacky fly-and-flop destination and emerging as a world-class hospitality hub […]

Perhaps Greece’s most compelling image is that of blue-domed churches looking out to sea from picturesque cliff-side perches. Though similar architecture occurs elsewhere in the Cyclades, these iconic churches are […]

The streets of Rome are bustling as mourners wait patiently in line outside the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major – the final resting place of Pope Francis, whose death […]

Affordable is a relative term, especially when it comes to things like houses, cars… and hotel rooms. What’s affordable for one traveller’s budget may be luxury priced for another, and […]

On one side, there are the mountains: the towering Roque del Condé with its distinctive flat top sits among countless other remarkable volcanic rock formations edging towards the scattered clouds […]

Four times a week, the BA Airbus A320 leaves London Heathrow at 9.25pm. Midnight comes as flight BA890 crosses German airspace into Austria, local time. At this point, the plane […]

A series of bays that once bobbed with traditional fishing boats (a handful remain), St Julian’s became the place for wealthy 19th- and early 20th-century Maltese to build their Neoclassical […]

Can’t we just go for a beach holiday again?” chimed my daughters, Tara and Emma, in unison. Their cries were joined by the unconvinced weight of mum’s stare at the […]

Putting one foot in front of the other is a simple process with the power to relieve some of life’s most complex and complicated problems. For thousands of years, religious […]