Europe

Now in the mountains, I knew the weather was going to change, after all, it was very pleasant on the coast for late October. Having got to Bohinj the night before, you could sense a slight chill [...]

The old Venetian city of Piran is delightful, with a small and peaceful harbour, vibrant town square and buildings which have so many stories to tell. If you have been to other Venetian towns [...]

Where else in the world can you ski in the morning and be on the beach in the afternoon – there are really very few, and Slovenia is one of them. This week I enjoyed a really short trip [...]

For a long time, filming locations connected to television programs or films have been a great reason for visiting somewhere new. There have of course been some very famous ones, even quite [...]

The last month has been busy catching up with our tour operator and travel partners, this week with AMR Collection (AM Resorts) in London, learning about the new hotels being added to their [...]

It was my first time in Madeira, the mountainous Portuguese island not far from the Canaries, and it really surprised me. Yes, I knew that it was going to be hilly, just as you find in Tenerife [...]

As I completed the final listing for our annual ski group holiday, the memories flashed through my mind from March 2020, all packed and ready to depart when Macron announced the closing of the [...]

A centre of culture, history, fiesta and food in the heart of Andalucia. Seville is a cocktail of Moorish and European influences set in a stunning national landscape. For spectacular views, and [...]

Every year for the last ten years, around the end of February I have travelled to Barcelona, one of the great cities of Spain. In fact, it was my last pre-pandemic trip in late February 2020, [...]

Although we have only really just hit winter, now is the time of year we start to get a look at what airlines have planned for next summer, as the slot reports for all the major airports in the [...]