AllWays Traveller Features

​From my first encounter during a lull in Army Training to more recent ascents of the mountains surrounding it, Dalwhinnie has been a landmark surrounded by happy memories. The whisky produced here, a favourite dram of mine for the best part of 30 years. ​I first leapt onto the tarmac of the carpark of the Dalwhinnie Distillery out of the back of a...

​ The Celtic Routes cover the three Irish counties of Wicklow, Waterford and Wexford and the three Welsh counties of Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire. Ireland The Dearg Due of Waterford There are many stories of vampirism in Ireland and one of the most frightening creatures is known as the Dearg Due, meaning 'Red Thirst'. Many centurie...

The Portugese capital of Lisbon has a thriving urban art scene. Artists,including Vhils, Odeith, PichiAvo, Bordallo II and RAF, have 'adorned' many of the city's streets with murals. To celebrate this movement, Turismo de Lisboa has launched a new video showcasing the city's Urban Art Route. There is also the outdoor public art in Quinta do Mocho a...

Montenegro is a Balkan country with rugged mountains, medieval villages and a narrow strip of beaches along its Adriatic coastline. To the north it borders Serbia, to the southeast Kosovo and Albania, to the south it is separated from Italy by the Adriatic Sea and to the west it borders Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Located on the Balkan Peni...

After two recent visits to Kefalonia I was back. I just had to complete my exploration of the island and the western waves of Palik ​ writes Adam Jacot de Boinod. As a peninsula Paliki is wonderful to drive around so I hired a car from Rentcarkefalonia) Literally a minute away my time in the owner Apostolis's forecourt was very much to set the tone...

The people who greet us, the greetings they use and the cultures they represent​ ​As I travel the world, one of the first things I always love to do is learn how to greet the people I meet in their own language. 'Hello' becomes so much more mysterious and interesting when you hear it said, and speak it, in different tongues. It almost becomes a gat...