Europe

We’d barely left the hotel on our Wild Wicklow coach tour, driving past Georgian terraces and brightly coloured front doors, when the stories started to …

People have been hopping on planes to the Costa Blanca for decades now. This beautiful stretch of Mediterranean coastline, offers holiday-makers the chance to relax …

Our final stage of the Tour de Mont Blanc took us over high mountain passes, with panoramic views of the peaks and valleys surrounding us. …

When my friend Julia and I started walking the Tour de Mont Blanc three years ago, we weren’t convinced that we needed walking poles at …

Sometimes on the Tour de Mont Blanc I felt like a mountain goat, leaping from rock to rock down a steep path made up of …

Here we go again on the Tour de Mont Blanc! This was the fourth (and we hoped the final) year that my friend and I …

I’m just back from the warmth and sunlight of the Cote d’Azur. Only yesterday I was strolling along the seafront in Nice on the Promenade …

In this Travel Podcast Episode 28, you’ll hear about the Rhine River cruise that I took with my husband Guy. I talk about the pretty …

The city of Malaga and most of its surrounding towns and resorts offer a street market once a week. You can pick up anything from …

Ah, summer in Barcelona. Sightseeing at the Sagrada Familia, strolls along Las Ramblas, and beach, beach, beach. There’s no better way to relax after a …

This is the beach that features on practically every postcard of Zante. On the Greek island of Zakynthos it’s known as Navagio beach, but to …