AllWays Traveller Features

The city of Bath, one of the UK's most popular short-break destinations, has been luring travellers since Roman Times. Bath was founded as a thermal spa settlement in the first century AD by the Romans and named for the resplendent baths built here. Into the Middle Ages and Bath had become an important centre for the wool industry and with its maje...

Warsaw, the Polish capital, is a vibrant, confident and outward looking city that welcomes visitors with genuine warmth. This is very much in contrast to the city's relatively recent history. Warsaw was ravaged during World War II with Poland itself repressed, as a Soviet bloc country, for forty plus years afterwards. Eagerly embracing democratic c...

The Portuguese city Porto is found on the Douro River where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean. Porto is universally known for the fortified wine port, which is produced in the Douro Valley region and shipped worldwide from the city. For the visitor, Portugal's second largest city, after Lisbon, is compact and eminently walkable and truly rewarding. ...

The German city of Düsseldorf is capital city of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It sits mainly on the right hand (eastern) bank of the River Rhine. The city is known for its Altbier (old town), vibrant nightlife, carnival and other major events such as the Kirmes fun fair, which attracts some four million thrill seekers for 10 days every summ...

VIVA Cruises is a premier operator of luxury cruising on the major rivers of Europe including the Danube, Elbe, Moselle, Rhine, Rhône and Seine. It also offers cruises on the Main-Danube Canal and Baltic Sea. VIVA TWO is the flagship in VIVA's eight strong river fleet and the second new ship, after VIVA ONE, to be launched within the year. The ship...

A narrowboat is one designed to fit the UK's integrated network of canal waterways and locks. These canals originally provided a nationwide transport network during the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th Centuries. The narrowboats that plied them were first horse drawn and then powered by steam and then diesel engines. With the coming of th...