The longest journey

The Pyrenees reserves its best treasures for walkers prepared to venture off the well-beaten trail, says Teresa Levonian Cole, on a solo holiday in Ribes de Freser

This week’s dream: a tall ship adventure in ...

Euro, kilometres and Gaelic make the Republic of Ireland foreign enough to be satisfying for Europhiles. We’d spent time exploring Ireland a few years ago and were determined to explore further. This

On 23 August 1989, some two million people joined hands to form a 675km human chain stretching between Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. ‘The Baltic Way’ was a peaceful protest against five decades of il

We set off from our Wiltshire home full of anticipation. Our destination was Cumbria, but not as we had known it. Like many, our trips there in the past had tended to be focused on the stunning lakes

Robert Hardy seeks big trout from a charming Cumbrian river