France: Heroic labour of love

Parts of this medieval chateau, lovingly restored, are available as holiday lets

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Journey’s end: Santiago de Compostela

The camino leads to Santiago de Compostela in the Galicia region. So what do people find once they get there?

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Balearic beat

Ibiza is an island where hippie chic is more than a look – it is a way of life, says Alanna Gallagher

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Starting a marriage on track

Having met on the Trans-Siberian Railway Will Burton and his girlfriend decided to begin married life by taking the train from Paris to Istanbul

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Wake up and smell the lavender in Languedoc

The Languedoc region in southern France has a sense of history and unspoilt integrity. Summer can get hot, but there are plenty of places to sit in the shade and take in the scents, writes Roz Crowley

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One-room hotel opens in TV tower

It’s not pretty, but Prague’s One Room Hotel makes for a beautiful experience

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Nouveau riches

It’s not all Eurocrats and expensive chocolates you know. The Belgian capital also has a wealth of beautiful Art Nouveau architecture to be explored

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Sixty years a swimming

Following in the flip flops of Picasso and Brigitte Bardot, Kevin Pilley learns to swim with a veteran instructor at the Grand Hotel du Cap Ferrat

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Summit of skiing

HOLLY HUNT goes off piste to sample the pleasures of cross-country skiing

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CLINGING TO THE EASTERN edge of Europe, where the continent slides into the Black Sea and soars into the Caucasus, Georgia has…

GO ITALY: Italy has it all, from family fun, to sun, to walking in the footsteps of the Medici

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GO SWEDEN: STOCKHOLM MAKES ME want to have an affair

CITY BREAK LISBON: SO, WHERE DO a digitally connected father and son go for an extended weekend break? London has it all in …

CITY BREAK: OSLO: FORGET TRADITIONAL CITY breaks

I’M LYING ON my back in the snow with unfiltered Alpine sun on my face letting the reggae music drift over me as I swing my ski…