The beautiful coastal city of Palma offers tourists a taste of true Mallorcan life and culture, far flung from images of drunk sunburnt Brits lazing on a beach in Magaluf
True, it’s everyone to their own, but the thought of grub on the run, or indeed standing at a shop counter and eating has rarely appealed to me ...
There it was, before my very eyes, a train, complete with driver, and astonishingly it was about to leave on time ...
Even as we made our way from the airport across to Manhattan I understood what all the fuss was about ...
The Canadian city of Toronto is cool, cultural, vibrant and classy – a perfect location for the Luminato Festival 2008 which celebrates arts and creativity and hosts 138 events over ten days ...
Yo-ho-ho landlubbers! Sports editor ALEX FINKENRATH casts aside his usual office attire of rugby shirt, football boots, swimming goggles and cricket pads and dons, instead, an eyepatch, wooden leg and ...
Cruising down the river on a Sunday afternoon… Clunk! Not the noise you want to hear when you’ve hired a boat for a long, relaxing weekend in Germany but it ...
When we told people where we were going for our family Christmas most of the responses we got went along the lines of ‘are you mad?’ ...
What does the island of Madeira not have for the tourist to enjoy? Sandy beaches, cafes selling sausage and chips, discos with wet T-shirt competitions...
I was determined, in writing about Miami, to avoid any mention of two things. The first was alligators and the second was a certain pastel-hued and Ray-Banned US TV cop show from the 1980s ...
Steve Lowe explored the capital of Spain and found it an elevating experience – but also exhausting. He admits he was retiring to his bed just as the locals were ...
I never imagined that I’d get sunburned in Ireland.The Emerald Isle is known for its lush green fields and sodden climate, so the sun soaked week we spent on the ...
‘Chelsea, as in the football team?’ ‘No, as in the name,’ I replied, while the joker cocked his head back in hysterics, thinking he was the first person to ever ...