In 1994, when I was living in London, a Channel 4 documentary gave me the opportunity to briefly return to Ukraine, my newly-independent, long-suffering motherland that I had originally left in 1978. That was my very first glimpse of it as a separate country, no longer a province of the Soviet Empire where one could go to prison just for uttering t...

​You are on a cruise and you arrive in Civitavecchia, the port that serves the city of Rome. If you simply want to explore the port, this article will provide you with information on things to see and do. You are arriving by ship at the port of Civitavecchia and you have decided that you don't want to visit Rome. Instead, you want to explore t...

The Scottish Borders, as its name suggests, is that part of Scotland that abuts the border with England. This has Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbrightshire on the Scottish side of the border, with the English counties of Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland on the other. The Scottish Borders region, unlike the more mountainous Highlands, is gently...

The Cairngorms are a mountain range in the eastern Highlands of Scotland dominated by Cairn Gorm. Much of the area is embraced within the Cairngorms National Park, thelargest of the UK network of national parks . It offers landscapes that range from the high windswept mountains and heather moorlands and peatlands to forests, wetlands and rivers. Ha...

The Scottish Highlands is undoubtedly one of the grand scenic regions of Europe. It offers majestic mountains, with Ben Nevis Britain's highest, and a stunning North Sea coastline scattered with remote fishing villages. Lock Ness, in the centre of the region, is the UK's largest lake and one enmeshed in the myth of the monster, and it is here one f...

The small Scottish coastal town of Carnoustie is synonymous with links golf, which has been played here since the game was first devised in the 16th Century. Carnoustie also provides a base for visiting the historic town of St Andrews, with its thriving university and castle and cathedral ruins along with its links golf courses. Travellers can also...