Hamburg

Switzerland’s largest city may have built its reputation as a financial powerhouse, but its real currency is its surprisingly imaginative food and drink scene, from urban wineries to sushi restaurants on Lake Zurich

Excitement builds as I travel upwards aboard one of the world’s longest curved escalators. It takes two-and-a-half minutes to reach the top. I am in Germany’s second-largest city inside its striking E

This former industrial powerhouse in western Germany has transformed its old factories into art galleries, history museums and culinary spaces

No other European metropolis is as easy to explore by boat as Copenhagen. Tie up in the centre of the city that has so much to offer, as Detlef Jens explains

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Escape the summer heat with a ‘coolcation’ to the stylish capitals of Sweden , Norway and Denmark …