Until I visited a friend in Alexandria, Egypt, my only other experience of the Arab world was Lebanon a couple of years earlier. Inevitably I …

I might describe the Abbey House Gardens in Malmesbury as a gorgeous Cotswold garden that typifies the English country style, but the name doesn’t always …

One of the things that strikes you (hopefully not literally) on the streets of Copenhagen are the sheer number of bikes, three deep at every …

I must admit to having mixed feelings about taking other people’s children on holiday. When my kids were younger my first reaction would have been …

Episode 17 in my travel podcast series takes us for a long weekend to Copenhagen in the early summer. You’ll hear the sounds of the …

The Hohensalzburg fortress was top of our list of things to do in Salzburg. Wherever you are in the town the fortress looms over you, …

Das Grüne Hotel zur Post in Salzburg is one of those attractive small, family run Gasthaus hotels that you find all over Austria and proved …

If I was making the Schafburgbahn steam train into a character from the children’s story book, Thomas the Tank Engine, I’d say it was a …

In anything epitomises Danish food, it must be the Smørrebrød. This open sandwich is made with dark rye bread topped with an endless combination of …

The food in Salzburg, as everywhere in Austria, is often hearty: think slabs of roast pork, huge bratwurst sausages or goulash made with beer. We …

Why did I want to visit the Karen Blixen Museum near Copenhagen? Karen Blixen returned from Kenya to her family home to write her book, …