The government of Qatar has a major project. Qatar National Vision 2030 (QNV 2030), announced in October 2008, is a huge overview of where the country...

Specifically, and not for the first time as a family, we were entranced in Provence. I think the region is glorious, which I know is not a singular op...

The Algarve coast of Portugal is a hugely popular destination for British tourists and ex-pats, lured by the year-long decent weather (very warm in th...

The E.M. Forster novel, A Room With A View, was written over a century ago. The film version provided an at-times beautiful portrait of Florence, the ...

This summer is likely to see a great deal of media attention devoted to the small Atlantic island of Bermuda. It will be staging the 35th America’s ...

On a recent holiday to the Dominican Republic, my wife and I stayed at the Zoetry Agua resort (see photo on the home page) just north of Punta Cana o...

One of the oddest things about the Oktoberfest, the world-famous Munich beer festival, is that it mostly takes place in September. If you’re thi...

The recent and understandable trepidation of many North European holidaymakers about travelling to Turkey and even to France this past summer saw an u...

As the smaller of the two countries of the Iberian peninsular, Portugal in some respects seems overshadowed by Spain, even if it loses nothing in comp...