AllWays Traveller Features

​Vitali Vitaliev explores some unexpected attractions of the Swiss canton Valais For someone like me, still recovering after open-heart surgery, the official promotional logo of the Swiss canton of Valais – 'Engraved on Your Heart' – was bound to sound a tad too punchy (if not to say scary) in the beginning. The fact that I had – perhaps rather foo...

Andalucía's Sierra de las Nieves is to become Spain's 16th national park and the third in the province of Málaga. Sierra de las Nieves has been a natural park since 1989 with half of it a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and it is home to flora and fauna including ibex, roe deer, golden eagles and ancient pinsapos (Spanish fir trees) which date back to the...

Murcia is a university city in southeastern Spain and the capital of a region of the same name. Plaza Cardenal Belluga is the city's architectural showpiece, where the ornate cathedral, with its mash-up of styles from Gothic to baroque. The Regional Park of Sierra Espuña and its surroundings contain Murcia's largest extensions of forest and has bec...

​Vitali Vitaliev uncovers some little-known Cold War relics in Berlin My first introduction to one of Berlin's lesser-known Cold War relics, the so-called "ghost stations", or Geisterbahnhoffe, was spontaneous and totally unexpected.Having just landed in Berlin's SchoenefeldAirport, we took an S-Bahn (overground) train to Friedrichstrasse Station, ...

Guernsey is one of the Channel Islands in the English Channel near the French coast. It's known for beach resorts like Cobo Bay and the scenery of its coastal cliffs. Castle Cornet, a 13th-century harbor fortification in the capital of St. Peter Port, now contains history and military museums. Hauteville House is the lavish former home of French wr...

Sicily, the largest Mediterranean island, is located just off the 'toe' of Italy's 'boot'. It is separated into nine provinces which all have direct access to the coast, except for the province of Enna which is entirely landlocked. It offers UNESCO World Heritage Sites, diverse landscapes and active volcanoes, sandy beaches and five national parks....