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Airside, landside, or a 10-minute train-ride away, hotels at Schiphol Airport can make a stopover or early start refreshing and stress-free, and can bring unexpected pleasure to your journey. Airside means compact rooms, super-convenience, and the buzz of one of the world’s best airports. Three hotels just minutes’ walk from the concours range from luxury

On my first holiday to France, I was so small that I had to be bathed in the washing-up bowl. In the photos, a speckly, eczema-ridden baby peeks over the plastic rim of the bowl, looking bemused. Mum’s dungarees and the battered grey tent in the background easily date the photo to the early 90s.

Of the many bewildering subcategories of winter sports enthusiast, the easiest to discern are the two types of downhill skier. In a crowded gondola, a long time ago, do you remember propping your skis up on your boot to make them appear longer? If yes, you are likely getting on in years and were once

Rome has been around for almost three thousand years and yet carries all that weight of history with a dolce vita lightness of heart. It’s a city that combines the intimacy and human scale of a village with the cultural draws of a historic, art-laden European metropolis. Classical ruins and early Christian places of worship

“Autumn” has arrived in Cape Town, but forget the wind and drizzle of home, this feels more like Summer 2.0. The days are warm but not too hot, the nights are cool but not too cold. After two years of local lockdowns and international red listing, the city of wine and waves is back with

The Queen is set to move to Windsor Castle permanently, having been based there for the last two years.  Like countless others, the monarch is leaving the capital for greener pastures. While Buckingham Palace will remain the central headquarters of the monarchy, it is expected that she will carry out her engagements from the Castle.

People who enjoy playing the geographer’s version of Wordle, cleverly titled ‘Worldle‘, were left scratching their heads at the solution on March 7, 2022. The quiz presents the outline of a country, and gives you five guesses as to where in the world it is. With each wrong guess, you are told how many kilometres

What drives a “fairly typical Sussex builder”, who had barely taken a flight in 20 years, to leave his comfortable life behind and try to become the first man to walk the length of the Amazon, against the current, from sea to source?  Pete Casey was in his 40s when he was drawn to follow the

It was early 1977, and I was in 10th grade of high school in Ontario, Canada. As a child, I had devoured novels about adventurous travel, such as The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, and as I got older, the desire to escape school and explore the world had only grown, finally reaching fever pitch. It

Each summer, I pack my laptop and take the East Coast Main Line from London to Yorkshire for my annual seven-day insight into my mother’s exhausting life. My mum, Anne, 71, is a carer for her husband, John, whom she first dated as a teenager in the 1960s. They reunited when she was 50 and

Nothing says British winter break quite like sitting in a hot tub outside a converted barn, buffeted by a brisk northerly, holding a brolly.  This was a situation I recently found myself in – nice and toasty from the armpits down, developing frostbite from the elbows up. It’s what they call “making the most of

It is the travel news many of us have been waiting for. Especially those of us who dream of a nice glass of chianti on a warm evening, a sunny stroll through a broad piazza, a day of high art in glorious galleries, a villa in the Tuscan hills or a week on an Adriatic

As the world opens up to tourism once more, one of Europe’s leading low-cost airlines is opening a wider window on Greece’s blissful blue skies, mirror clear seas and silk sand beaches. For travellers seeking to discover a more authentic side to the sun-soaked country, EasyJet has teamed up with Sky Express, Greece’s most popular no-frills

If you’ve been paying attention, you will have noticed little green stalks sprouting out of the ground on roadsides and in forests everywhere. You will have clocked that the evenings are getting lighter and the birds are singing earlier with each new day. Spring is coming, and for the first time in two years, we’re

Expert guide to Tignes Overview Hotels Restaurants Après ski Snow reports France’s dependable winter destination A combination of enviable snow cover, a variety of impressive terrain and a season that lasts most of the year makes Tignes one of the most snow-dependable winter destinations in France, if not Europe. It still feels as if the season never really

After two winters of misfortune, British skiers and snowboarders are set to be among the first group of travellers to benefit from easing travel restrictions across Europe. As the ski season enters its final few months nations on the continent are making efforts to allow Britons to visit without so much as a negative test

Thought 2022 was the Year of the Tiger? Wrong. While Chinese astrology might suggest that the big cat is in the spotlight right now, when it comes to the world of travel, it is undeniably the year of the GOAT: the “greatest of all trips”. Tigers, say the Chinese, are energetic and fearless, hungry for

Snow takes on a different quality at 2,000 metres (6,500ft): it is colder, dryer and more plentiful. It is guaranteed even as the season wears on, when sunny days turn snow at lower altitudes to ice and slush. Stepping out of my ski-in/ski-out hotel in Arc 1950, part of the vast Paradiski area in the

A number of countries have closed the door on unvaccinated Britons (a cohort in excess of 10 million people, according to some estimates), with Spain among the most recent to announce that only double-jabbed Britons would be welcomed. Previously, a negative test was sufficient.  However, with omicron proving to be a far milder version of

There’s no better time to plan a spring UK road trip. Begin by plotting a winding route and then get set to head for some of the most beautiful scenery the British Isles has to offer. With gorgeous national parks, cities filled with things to do and so much history to offer, there’s something for