Slow travel from Salzburg to Graz and Vienna In an age of high speed travel a rail journey is an old-fashioned leisurely alternative that...

I recently revisited Hong Kong after a gap of nearly 20 years. I found that these days the place thrives on superlatives - the locals...

Peeking out of the Atlantic, Sao Miguel forms one of the nine Azorean islands which mixes romance , myth and geology. Craters, bubbling...

Dutch the on-board bar manager sets my flambé sherry cocktail alight as a cannon explodes into the cold air to announce the start of the...

MARRIOTT BRINGS HOPE TO HAITI Travellers tend to deplore the opening of big multi-national chain hotels in the Caribbean, but the opening...

After years as the drink of choice for grisly old fishermen, sailors and pirates, rum is replacing vodka as the spirit of the times. In...

Bulgaria, since emerging as a parliamentary democracy in 1990, is gradually shaking off its cold war legacy. Britons initially saw the...