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Italian travel operators have reported a boom in foreign holidaymakers booking holiday apartments this summer. Limone sul Garda, Lombardy, Italy. Photograph: iStock

Italy will reopen to tourists from mid-May with country’s ‘green pass’

Angela Giuffrida
May 6, 2021

Entry applies to people who recovered from Covid-19, been vaccinated or tested negative

Tui says the software error that affected flights has been corrected. Photograph: Matthew Horwood/Getty

Flight in ‘serious incident’ after every ‘Miss’ on board assigned child’s weight

April 9, 2021

Service to Majorca took off with less thrust because pilot thought it was 1,200kg lighter

Bicyclists roll past apartments so well insulated that they require almost no energy to heat, in the newly developed Bahnstadt neighborhood, in Heidelberg, Germany. Photograph: Felix Schmitt/The New York Times

What’s it like to live in a truly green city? Ask these Germans

Derek Scally
March 27, 2021

Mid-sized German cities are successfully merging sustainable planning with citizen buy-in

Ischgl is a lively ski village with an extensive ski area in the Paznaun valley aound 90 minutes’ drive from Innsbruck

Will Europe shut down its ski resorts this winter?

Derek Scally
November 28, 2020

Germany, France and Italy want Europe’s pistes to stay shut. Austria says no

A waiter wearing a face mask serves drinks at Cafe Florian in Venice. Photograph: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images

‘Living day by day’ – Venice and Florence without tourists

Fionn Davenport
September 12, 2020

With the usual deluge of tourists to the Italian cities now a trickle, how are residents surviving?

Goodbye, airfares: when our Ryanair flight leaves for Greece next week, we won’t be aboard. Photograph: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty

Keep our money if you must, Ryanair. We’d rather lose our airfares than board our flight

Liam Stebbing
July 3, 2020

It’s not just for health reasons. We can live with the financial hit if it helps our communities

Wish you were here? While countries across Europe are beginning to reopen their tourist markets, Irish people still have no idea if they are coming or going. Photograph: Getty Images

Why you still can’t have a European holiday this summer. Or can you?

Conor Pope
June 6, 2020

Across Europe, beaches are open and airliners are ready for take-off. It’s tempting...

ITAA said consumers should “adhere to the current travel guidelines from the Department, which state that non-essential travel should be avoided until further notice”. File photograph: Natascha Libbert/Bloomberg

Irish travel agents call for 'clear guidelines' as airlines launch summer schedules

Conor Pope
June 2, 2020

Tourists must follow government advice on travel, not airline offers, says industry body

A waiter serves visitors in a roof-top cafe of a hotel in central Athens, on the first day of the opening of hotels in Greece. Photograph: Milos Bicanski/Getty Images

Irish holidaymakers will not be barred from Greece when tourism restarts

Conor Pope
June 2, 2020

Department of Foreign Affairs advisory against travel except to UK remains in place

Bear essentials: Alessandro Breda walks away from the bear he encountered on a family walk in an Italian nature park. Photograph: Twitter/Loris Calliari

What do you do when you meet a bear on a walk? Copy this 12-year-old

Elisabetta Povoledo
May 27, 2020

A video of Alessandro Breda encountering the animal in the Dolomites has gone viral

Ryanair: the airline says security restrictions prevent it from processing cash refunds. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell

Coronavirus: Ryanair suspends refunds and offers passengers vouchers instead

Conor Pope
April 9, 2020

Customers who want money back can ‘join cash-refund queue’ until crisis has passed

Cruising along the majestic Danube in the Ama Magna. Our three-day itinerary takes us to Vienna, Esztergom and Budapest.

Sampling the delights of the Danube on a leisurely river cruise

Deirdre McQuillan
March 1, 2020

River cruising is a delightful way to visit majestic cities like Vienna and Budapest

Toulouse seems specially suitable for meandering talks, the nursing of wine, and long stretches of riverside walking.

Finding beauty behind closed doors on a weekend break in Toulouse

Shilpa Ganatra
February 16, 2020

Unhurried pace of life and a prevailing air of creativity among the many attractions of France’s fourth largest city

Trieste, Italy: The church of St Antonio Thaumaturgo is situated at the northern end of the Canale Grande.

Ten reasons to visit Trieste, Italy’s jewel of a city

Pavlo Fedykovych
February 9, 2020

Close to the border with both Croatia and Slovenia, Trieste is a city at the crossroads of cultures

Joya and Priya Hobson at Utah Beach where their great-uncle Eddie was part of the Normandy landings

After years of staycations, it was time to take the kids to France

Róisín Ingle
February 1, 2020

Róisín Ingle's girls didn’t want much: just to travel to another country, and experience a bit of 'proper' sunshine

The city has lost none of its fascination: buckets are still lowered from high windows on winding lanes strung with washing lines. Photograph: iStock

Relive Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels on the city’s real world streets

Victoria White
January 27, 2020

If you're a fan of the books, you'll love discovering Lila and Lenu's haunts around the city

Spectacular views in northern Tenerife

Walk on the wild side with a winter hiking holiday in Tenerife

Margaret Ward
January 12, 2020

The prehistoric world of Anaga Rural Park is a cool and humid contrast to the Canary Island's sunny resorts

Bruegel Box: three of the artist’s painting are projected on to walls, floor to ceiling around you, at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts

Brussels is buzzing with Bruegel artwork to celebrate 450th anniversary

Sorcha Hamilton
December 14, 2019

City offers non-traditional approach to experiencing art and multimedia exhibitions

In Lecce, there are plenty of restaurants for dinner. Most are Italian, but you can also find a selection of Greek and Turkish places too. Photograph: iStock

Perfect Puglia: Something for all the family on holiday in Italy’s ‘heel’

Sarah Walsh
December 1, 2019

New flights from Dublin to Brindisi will make the region easy to visit for Irish tourists

Paris in the snow. Photograph: iStock

The best European cities for a winter weekend break

Darragh Geraghty
November 19, 2019

Winter is the most romantic time to visit Paris, and nobody seems to know it

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