I recently had an unpleasant encounter with hotel cancellation fees that will make me think carefully in the future how I go about booking any …

School’s out for summer! Great for the kids, but if you’re a parent you’ll know how difficult it can be to keep them entertained and …

Until I visited a friend in Alexandria, Egypt, my only other experience of the Arab world was Lebanon a couple of years earlier. Inevitably I …

I might describe the Abbey House Gardens in Malmesbury as a gorgeous Cotswold garden that typifies the English country style, but the name doesn’t always …

One of the things that strikes you (hopefully not literally) on the streets of Copenhagen are the sheer number of bikes, three deep at every …

I must admit to having mixed feelings about taking other people’s children on holiday. When my kids were younger my first reaction would have been …

Episode 17 in my travel podcast series takes us for a long weekend to Copenhagen in the early summer. You’ll hear the sounds of the …

The Hohensalzburg fortress was top of our list of things to do in Salzburg, as it seemed to be mentioned by practically everyone who gave …

Hotel Zur Post is one of those attractive small, family run Gasthaus hotels that you find all over Austria and proved to be a comfortable …

It’s a while since I read Thomas the Tank Engine as a bed-time story to my kids, but if I was making the Schafburgbahn steam …

In anything epitomises Danish food, it must be the Smørrebrød. This open sandwich is made with dark rye bread topped with an endless combination of …