Sprawled over the central Italian hills, and fringed by a narrow coast, is the region of Le Marche (pronounced mark-ay). The four of us –...
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Seville: A weekend walking in the orange city
It is the smell of Seville", announced the charming saleslady as she spritzed perfume onto a sampler pad and handed it to me...
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Lovely Lithuania, my latest discovery in Eastern Europe
During one of my regular searches for new interesting destinations that could fit well into a weekend getaway out of London, I was happy to...
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Albania: the beautiful south
Normally the news of an imminent foreign trip is met with declarations of envy from family and friends, but no one wanted to come in my...
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Travel to Bordeaux
My trip to beautiful Bordeaux
This summer I was lucky enough to spend ten days in Bordeaux and attend a...
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Athens in a Day
Emerging from Akropoli tube station at twilight, thin hazy rain speckled the scene as I checked the route to my budget hotel in the nearby...
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My Croatian road trip: Konoba crawls in Roman Zadar, trendy Zagreb and the fairytale waterfalls of Plitvice
n Dubrovnik and Split we'd wandered the sun-drenched streets and hidden passageways of the marble old towns, followed in historical...
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Turkey’s Turquoise Coast
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's my little sister, soaring on the updrafts above the pine-forested ridges that shelve towards the...
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From San Marino to the Emilia Romagna
My journey from the world's oldest Republic to one of Italy's most scenic regions
The idea of visiting Europe's...
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Simply Cyprus – The divided year-round island
Romans and Venetians. The Byzantine and the Ottoman Empire. Great Britain, Greece and Turkey. Everybody has had its share of Cyprus. As...