Alpine summer in Switzerland

John Collins followed in the footsteps of scientist John Tyndall in the pristine mountain villages around the stunning Aletsch glacier

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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

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…

CITY BREAK: BRATISLAVA: A UFO FLYING ABOVE the treetops and a huge concrete housing estate – whose sadness couldn’t be salved…

SURFING: TAK TAK TAK BOOM. Tak tak tak BOOM..

CITY BREAK: ANTWERP IS A gorgeous city – a mix of Medieval and Renaissance buildings – that is boutique in size so you can explore…

Edinburgh could forego much of what its Christmas and Hogmanay festivities have to offer and still seem the epitome of midwinter…