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Soak up a little Viennese culture for the soul

A wander around the Austrian capital of Vienna just somehow feels exactly the way you always thought it should... The buildings are, generally, stately architectural works of art, the streets wide and majestic, the indigenous folk friendly and helpful and the transport system, especially the trams, completely facilitative in your explorational endeavours. With a population of some 1.73 million (more than a fifth of the country's total) ...

Belgium’s second city has a charm that’s all its own

A visit to Antwerp can yield some impressive treasures... While it may not enjoy the picturesque reputation jealously guarded by cities such as Bruges and Ghent, or the cosmopolitan fabulosity that is Brussels, Antwerp - Belgium's second city - does have a charm that is all its own. Ignore the popular travel guide rants about its industrial and commercial nature, and knuckle down to the breathtaking beauty ...

Completing the Czechoslovakian connection

If you visited and fell in love with Prague, try sampling the delights of Bratislava, capital of the other half of what was once a single Soviet country... The romance of Prague, the Czech Republic's proud capital city, is legend. But not too many years ago, this former Soviet country was as intrinsically linked to its equally communist stable mate Slovakia as Rolls is to Royce. ...

Beautifully lost in the land of blue skies

From a stunning horse ride in the wildly outlandish terrain to a genial dinner in stylish Ulaanbaatar, you'll find breathtaking Mongolia stays with you forever “He must be from Outer Mongolia!” Kevin Jackson would proclaim with stark regularity when he deemed some new boy at school didn’t quite fit in. Kevin, the sort of comrade you loved to fight with, was my ‘best friend’ throughout primary ...

Israel, Palestine and the Holy Lands

A fantastic tour of Israel and the Holy Lands doesn’t come in a much better guise than this superb offering from UK-based holiday company Leger A trip to the Holy Lands was something I’d been wanting to do for many years - probably since my childhood. It’s not so much that I am devoutly religious, although I do consider myself a Christian, but the whole historical ...

Chernobyl, site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster

Chernobyl and Pripyat: after the Wormwood nuclear holocaust I’m not really sure what I expected of my trip to Chernobyl. I’d read plenty about the subject for many months before my eventual arrival in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, weighed up time and again the moral and safety issues and ultimately decided to take the plunge. The world’s worst nuclear disaster was, ironically, the result of a ...