Latvia is a country on the Baltic Sea between Lithuania and Estonia, with landscapes marked by wide beaches as well as dense, sprawling forests. Capital city Riga has wooden and art nouveau architecture, a vast Central Market and a UNESCO World Heritage medieval Old Town with St. Peter's Church. Riga's museums include the Latvian Ethnographic Open-...

​There are more than 900 museums throughout Switzerland, but only one that brings us the life and work of the greatest artist of the silent movie era – Charlie Chaplin. However, this is no normal museum. Chaplin's World is the family home, the Manoir de Ban in Corsier-sur-Vevey on the shores of Lac Léman, or Lake Geneva as it's also known. It'...

Is Hydra famous for its donkeys? Or are the donkeys famous because they live on Hydra? Essentially, the answer is moot, as this Greek island (pronounced: EE-dra) has notoriously never succumbed to motorized vehicles. So, the only ways to get around this 64-square-kilometre paradise in the Aegean Sea is on your own two feet or the back of a donkey, ...

Palazzo Ducale Venturi is located in the village of Minervino di Lecce in Salento, Puglia The 5-star boutique hotel is situated in a restored aristocratic palace from the 16th century. It offers 20 refurbished bedrooms, a restaurant, indoor and outdoor pool, luxury spa and Puglia's first Cryotherapy chamber. Palazzo Ducale Venturi, once called Cast...

​ Hideaways or Rural Retreats offer a range of properties that are conversions and restorations. St. Edmunds Church, Yorkshire This restored 13th century, Grade II listed church, built in Yorkshire stone is four miles south of Bridlington. It is located the sands of Fraisthorpe Beachnds. www.yorkshirehideaways.co.uk/yorkshire-coast/bridlington-and-...

Putting on my face mask during the Coronavirus pandemic, I often recall the only other occasion in my life when I had to have my face covered. I visited the site of the Chernobyl tragedy several years after the disaster with a Channel 4 UK TV crew while making a documentary about Ukraine. The fact that my father, a nuclear physicist, died premature...