Scaling the fairytale peaks of Saxon Switzerland in Germany | Germany holidays
“Look at that on the rock. Do you know what it tells us?” Kristin Arnold, my guide in south-east Germany’s Saxon Switzerland national park, points at a large mass of…
“Look at that on the rock. Do you know what it tells us?” Kristin Arnold, my guide in south-east Germany’s Saxon Switzerland national park, points at a large mass of…
Venice will limit the size of tourist parties to 25 people from Thursday in the latest attempt to reduce the impact of crowds on the lagoon city. Local authorities will…
I’m bashing my way through thick foliage atop a long-disused railway embankment somewhere outside Sevenoaks, using my bicycle as a battering ram against the brambles and nettles. My guide has…
I spent a lot of my first trip around the world partying. I was twenty-five and ready to cut loose after a quarter century of living a fairly sheltered, middle-class…
I’m a mid-life cliche. I bought a campervan (Margo) and a dog (Maggie May) in lockdown. I dream of a life in Scandinavia – of forests, fika and foraging. I…
This was the most exciting and most difficult time of our lives, and there was a time when we thought we might break up over it. A lot of Instagrammers,…
Whether it’s the excitement of chugging across the Aegean on a ferry bound for a remote Greek isle or tucking into your first seafood platter on one of the many…
‘Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are,” wrote philosopher-gourmand Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in 1825, and this is particularly true of today’s Marseille: food is…
The Grand is a dog-eared Cluedo board of a hotel. The art deco ballroom, its sprung dancefloor covered by carpet, opens into a library used for community events, which in…
It is early morning in the Old Town, when the tangle of pretty cobbled alleyways and ancient stone stairways are relatively empty and you can wander around the creamy, marbled…