Europe

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 [...]

EasyJet is to start another new service for skiers this winter, adding the new Scandinavian Mountains airports on the border between Norway and Sweden. Scandinavia has become increasingly popular [...]

Jet2 will be flying to Samos for the first time in Summer 2026, adding to the number of destinations in Greece we have direct connections to from London. Of course, we’re all used to [...]

Last week Ikos Resorts celebrated its tenth anniversary. Having launched with Ikos Oceania in Halkidiki in March 2015, the popular all-inclusive hotel group has since expanded to other parts of [...]

Our friends at Magari Tours have released the first group of tours for next year, including Essence of Lombardy which we went on last April, Secluded Tuscany and the Heart of Umbria – with [...]