Nothing says Christmas like a panoply of lights, a mug of hot cocoa and festive decorations, as I discovered last December when I stayed at Villa d’Este on Lake Como in Italy. The hotel, located in th

What could be more romantic than a day in a sleigh drawn by horses, or a team of huskies? It’s a cinch to sort in Switzerland’s dramatic south-western ski resort, Verbier. Some chalet hosts will even

The parks and wilderness areas of Italy are some of the most dramatic on the continent, ranging from Europe’s highest active volcano to the last refuge of the Marsican bear. We pick 21 of the wildest to explore…

It’s not often that you can visit somewhere breathtakingly beautiful that’s only a two-hour flight from London and that’s largely undiscovered by British tourists. My family and I travelled to South T

Soak up the storybook atmosphere of Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital city, this winter

MOST visitors to Split, the second-largest city in Croatia, are so dazzled by the splendour of its Roman ruins and the magnificent Diocletian’s Palace that they seldom venture much further afield. Jus