Europe

easyJet has announced a raft of new routes from the UK for this winter, including a number of returning services (especially from Gatwick), with a key focus on Christmas Markets and skiing/winter [...]

JOANNA LUMLEY’S DANUBE Friday 6 June 2025, iTV, 9pm Joanna Lumley’s journey along the Danube reaches its final chapter in Romania — a land of soaring mountains, deep mythology and some of [...]

JOANNA LUMLEY’S DANUBE Friday 30 May 2025, iTV, 9pm In Episode Two of her Danube adventure, Joanna Lumley journeys deeper into the heart of Eastern Europe, uncovering the rich geography and [...]

In his new three-part series Scandinavia with Simon Reeve, the ever-curious broadcaster swaps equators for icy edges, venturing across a region many Brits think they already understand – [...]

JOANNA LUMLEY’S DANUBE Friday 23 May 2025, iTV, 9pm Joanna Lumley returns to our screens with another unforgettable travelogue, this time following the Danube — Europe’s most international [...]

All tours are now on sale with Magari Tours for next year – the experiential tours specialist to Italy. The short tours to Lombardy, Umbria and Tuscany have been on sale for a while – [...]

Last week, we headed to Malta for the annual Advantage Conference. This year, slightly differently, there was a choice of pre-conference excursions, which I eagerly took up. Although a small [...]

In an earlier entry, I wrote about our journey around the Ria Formosa and its scattered islands, but it would be impossible to talk about that part of the Algarve without mentioning Olhão. This [...]

We are big supporters of small, specialist operators, because they bring something to the table the mainstream is just not set up to do. When I started working with Tony from Magari Tours [...]

I’m lucky, really, being able to go back and forth regularly between two countries—our main home and office in the UK, and our family place with a little satellite office out on the Algarve. For [...]