The port city of Valencia lies on Spain's south eastern coast, where the Turia River meets the Mediterranean Sea. It's known for its City of Arts and Sciences, with futuristic structures including a planetarium, an oceanarium and an interactive museum. There are also the 20 kilometres of European Blue Flag status beaches including some within nearb...

Iceland, a Nordic island nation, is defined by its dramatic landscape with volcanoes, geysers, hot springs and lava fields. Massive glaciers are protected in the Vatnajökull and Snæfellsjökull national parks. Most of the population lives in the capital, Reykjavik, which runs on geothermal power and is home to the National and Saga museums, tracing ...

VisitPortugal has launched a YouTube video which calls for a focus on responsible and sustainable tourism in 2021. The #CantSkipTomorrow message, delivered by a young child, is a 'call for discovering new ways of travelling bound by a collective conscience to protect what has been given to us by nature'. The campaign stems from the global guideline...

​I took a walk through present day Alloway where one of the most famous writers of all time, Robert Burns, was born and raised. I wanted to see what remains of his life over 200 years on. Not only did I see him everywhere but one of his most famous poems came to life before my very eyes. ​There are few in literature who's lives are celebrated as re...

As a Travel Writer in Lockdown I've started to look ever more closely at the wonders on my doorstep. Here's what I found walking south along the coast from Ayr.​. Brought up in the South Side of Glasgow, Ayr is a town of my earliest memories of sunshine and 'the seaside'. Even nowadays, almost 50 years on, the population of the city of Glasgow had ...

Severin*s - The Alpine Retreat is a five-star superior hotel on a mountain slope in the Stubenbach quarter of Lech am Arlberg. Lech am Arlberg is a mountain village and an exclusive ski resort in the Bludez district in the westernmost Austrian state of Vorarlberg, on the banks of the river Lech. Severin*s enjoys a panoramic view over the alpine lan...