Category: News Europe

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 […]

Once upon a time Malta was a package holiday paradise of cheap sun and sea for the over-sixties, but in the last 15 years that has completely changed – and […]

A collection of family-owned private villas equipped for luxurious stays in the breathtaking Périgord region of France – ideal for a short stay or a family gathering in the countryside, […]

As my eight-year-old tore across a sun-dappled clearing in the forest, his eyes locked on a golden coin that had just flown out of a donkey statue’s bottom, my daughter […]

This industrial-chic hotel on the banks of the Douro river offers luxurious apartment-style lodgings in Portugal’s second city, with proximity to the city’s port lodges, a plush spa and a […]

Iceland is a country of extremes. It’s an otherworldly place bordering on the supernatural where the threat of deadly volcanic eruption looms over all life as the country grows two […]