Travel

LIMA is a boisterous, macho city, relaxed and laid-back, yet having an underlying energy, with money and expensive cars ruling the roost - you can buy... [read more]

Across the border from the Belgian province of Luxembourg, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is one of Europe's smallest sovereign states, a tiny independ... [read more]

The rambling metropolis of LOS ANGELES sprawls across the thousand square miles of a great desert basin, knitted together by an intricate network of c... [read more]

In many ways, Bulgaria remains the unknown country of the Balkans. Less newsworthy than the former Yugoslavia, and less heavily touristed than neighbo... [read more]

HANGZHOU , capital of the province, southern terminus of the Grand Canal, and one of China's leading tourist attractions, lies in the north of Zhejian... [read more]

The economic and cultural focus of English-speaking Canada, Toronto is the country's largest metropolis. It sprawls along the northern shore of Lake O... [read more]

It's little wonder that so many wistful songs have been penned over the years about France's capital, Paris . Few cities leave the visitor with such v... [read more]

Everybody has heard of Jerusalem ( Yerushalayim in Hebrew, al-Quds in Arabic), and most people have some image of it in their heads, but almost everyo... [read more]

Modern Greece is the result of extraordinarily diverse influences . Romans, Arabs, Latin Crusaders, Venetians, Slavs, Albanians, Turks, Italians, not... [read more]

Travel in Romania is an rewarding as it is challenging. The country's mountain scenery and great diversity of wildlife, its cultures and people, and a... [read more]

Malaysia does not have the grand, ancient ruins of neighbouring Thailand, but its rich cultural heritage is apparent, both in its traditional kampung... [read more]

Sweden is a large, geographically varied and strangely little-known country whose sense of space is one of its best features. Away from the relatively... [read more]

Originally discovered by the Spaniards in 1499 and taken over by the Dutch in 1634, Curaçao has been slower to develop the kind of tourist industry it... [read more]

Geographically, Puerto Rico is a Caribbean hub, presiding squarely over the waters between Hispaniola and the Virgin Islands. As a commonwealth of the... [read more]

Christopher Columbus encountered the Cayman Islands in 1503, he surely must have sighted Cayman Brac first. The island's most distinguishing feature i... [read more]