A land of stories

The ancient city of Split lies on the Croatian coast of the Adriatic, at the political and economic heart of the old Roman province of Dalmatia. The Emperor Diocletian built his vast retirement palace

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Water is leaking into my goggles. I blink a couple of times and try to figure out which lens is the culprit. Both? It’s strange, as these goggles have done many miles in training and never leaked befo

If visiting Malta feels like you’ve wandered onto the set of a fantasy epic, it’s because you have. From the honey-hued streets of the Western city of Mdina to the dramatic cliffs of the island of Goz

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

Is a ring of 36 cherubs excessive? Perhaps, but those are only the ones around the southern Italian city of Lecce’s Basilica of Santa Croce’s rose window; I count dozens of additional cheeky winged ba