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Catch a Eurostar train to Paris, Brussels… or anywhere

Twenty minutes in a darkened tunnel never looked so full of promise... It’s when standing on the platform at Paris’ Gare du Nord, or Brussels Midi Station, that the impact of what’s just happened can be felt. You’ve crossed the English Channel, you’re in northern Europe, and you’re ready for adventure. You haven’t had to fly; to be honest, you’ve barely had to queue. Such is the ...

My Blue Heaven – Greenland’s stunning Qooroq ice field

Sailing around South Greenland’s deep blue icebergs isn’t something you get the chance to do every day, but you’ll remember it for the rest of them once you’ve done it My imagination had already informed my adventure of sailing around vast icebergs in the Qooroq ice field of South Greenland. The original trip had been planned with an authentic wooden fishing vessel as our mode of ...

Watching seabirds fly; just one of my beautiful, lifelong memories of magical Osea Island

Nestling quietly on the River Blackwater at the base of the Thames estuary, this secluded oasis is now open for discovery by those seeking a little bird’s nest soup for the soul As the road starts to peter out, you notice that the night sky is particularly black, punctuated by millions of tiny stars and resembling a wartime window with black-out paint which has failed at ...

Belarusian capital Minsk is Europe’s best value city break

Built as a model Soviet city after the Second World War, the Minsk of today is a stunning example of a grand Stalinist metropolis As I stood at the top of the abandoned apartment block, ankle deep in the detritus of people’s lives, the brilliant afternoon sunshine cut like a laser into my line of sight. It almost obscured the towering, rusty ferris wheel, long forsaken ...

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 ...