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Irish Ferries has confirmed that  5,000-10,000 customers are affected by cancelled bookings on a new ferry, the WB Yeats Disrupted Irish Ferries passengers have few alternatives
  • Joan Scales
  • April 23, 2018

Those whose affordable ferry trips to France are cancelled will pay far higher rates now

Among the strangest sights in Brussels is The Atomium. Constructed for the 1953 World Fair, it stands at 102 metres high. Brussels: So much more than the sum of its diplomats
  • Jeanette Farrell
  • April 21, 2018

Enjoy layer upon layer of cultural endeavours over the course of a weekend at the Belgians’ inimitably leisurely pace

Gateway to castle Marburg Gothic and Grimm: The joys of fairytale Marburg
  • Shane Hegarty
  • April 14, 2018

An hour from Frankfurt, the picturesque town of Marburg, with its steep, cobbled streets and links to the Brothers Grimm, is brimming with personality

Castro Urdiales is a medieval seafaring and fishing village  on the Cantabrian coast Ferry good: Take in the best of northern Spain
  • Manchán Magan
  • April 14, 2018

A new Cork to Santander route opens up this region for a driving holiday, taking in Bilbao, Santiago de Compostela and the Basque Country. It’s worth the day-long voyage

Mediterranean sun: Aphrodite’s Rock, in Cyprus Fancy an Easter getaway? Here are a few late offers
  • Joan Scales
  • March 15, 2018

Spain, Italy, Morocco and Cyprus are all usually sunny at this time of year

Umbria has a rich cultural history,  and its countryside is dotted with towns that make delightful day-long diversions. Umbria: It’s Italy but not as you know it
  • Laurence Mackin
  • February 17, 2018

Delightful food, pristine countryside and not a tourist in sight

Los Empalaos: one of the Maundy Thursday penitents in Valverde de la Vera. Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Fiesta season in medieval Spain
  • Deirdre Davys
  • February 17, 2018

Spain loves a fiesta, especially at Easter. They’re just one way to connect with history in Extremadura

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry in 1997 Taking the new ferry to Spain? Here’s what to see when you get there
  • Joan Scales
  • January 17, 2018

New ferry service to Northern Spain will open up a picturesque, culinary, artistic part of Spain

Rachel Flaherty on her fitness holiday in the Algarve, Portugal ‘What if I die trying to keep up with elite athletes?’
  • Rachel Flaherty
  • January 13, 2018

A fitness holiday in the Algarve – how can it be relaxing if I’m working out every day?

The Dino Snores programme at London’s Natural History Museum allows members of the public to check in and spend the night. Photograph: Natural History Museum trustees Sleep with the fishes (and with the dinosaurs)
  • Alanna Gallagher
  • December 23, 2017

Fancy a very special kind of sleepover? Then book you and your little darlings in for a real-life night at the museum experience at London’s Natural History Museum  

Plaza de España, Seville Lose yourself in searing Seville
  • Sophie Grenham
  • December 16, 2017

Cheap delicious tapas, sizzling heat, unique shops and hidden treasures all around – the Andalusian capital has it all

Gstaad Palace Hotel. Photograph: LOOK-foto Swiss fantasy in Gstaad Palace
  • Gemma Tipton
  • December 9, 2017

The Disney-esque castle has attracted the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Princess Diana

What everyone calls the Marché d’Aligre is actually a combination of three very different markets. 10 of the best restaurants and food stalls in Paris’s covered markets
  • November 28, 2017

Food halls, many in historic buildings, are flourishing all over the French capital and feature bistrots and stalls serving the very best traditional and ethnic dishes

Plaça de Catalunya in Barcelona. Photograph: Getty Images Homage to Barcelona: reliving Orwell’s Spanish Civil War adventures
  • William Burton
  • September 9, 2017

A tour based on the writer’s wartime experiences reveals a haunting history of the city

Mountain high: spectacular sights in the  Pyrenees Pedal-powering through the Pyrenees
  • Jamie Ball
  • July 8, 2017

The peaks are just as steep, but prices are about half compared with those in the Alps

Return to Paris: reasons to love the City of Lights
  • Yvonne Judge
  • July 8, 2017

The French captial remains the perfect city to stir the senses and whet the appetite

The Costumed Charity Promenade is part of the annual Jane Austen Festival Follow in the footsteps of Jane Austen and dip into Bath
  • Margaret Ward
  • July 1, 2017

This ancient city known for its healing waters prepares to celebrate the bicentenary of the author’s death

Willie Redmond’s grave. Nearby, in  Locre Hospice Cemetery, his   former comrades repose beneath the more conventional headstones of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission  100 years on, Willie Redmond’s final resting place in a Belgian battlefield
  • Frank McNally
  • June 3, 2017

Like Redmond, Francis Ledwidge was to die on the first day of a battle

Corfe Castle, Dorset, England. Photograph: Mark Bauer/Getty Images Visit The Famous Five's Treasure Island
  • Jonathan Goodall
  • May 29, 2017

Corfe Castle and the Isle of Purbeck are settings for much of the author’s work

Glen Garioch oak whiskey barrels Old gold, new brew: The many treasures of Aberdeen
  • Sorcha Hamilton
  • May 27, 2017

From a hip brewery to a 200-year-old distillery, the port town has lots to explore

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