European Union holidays
A local’s guide to Hamburg: concerts, cocktails and dockyard cuisine
Concert pianist Alexander Krichel reveals his pick of the best bars, vintage stores, ferry rides and sailor-sized dishes of Germany’s second largest city
Interview by Paul Sullivan
20, Jun, 2022 @6:00 AM
A local’s guide to Lecce, Italy: baroque beauty and rural cuisine
Puglian winemaker Massimiliano Apollonio shares tips on the best cafes, museums, parks and bike rides in his beautiful southern city
Interview by John Brunton
30, May, 2022 @6:00 AM
Mouthwatering Marseille: a taste of France’s f revolution
Anti-establishment Marseille is shaking up French cooking. Here, five of the city’s innovative chefs and restaurateurs reveal their favourite places to eat
Vérane Frédiani
21, Mar, 2022 @7:00 AM
The wild side of the Balearics: off the beaten track on Spain's stunning paradise islands
Beyond the hotspots each island has a wilder side to get lost in, writes the co-author of a new guide to the archipelago
Anna Deacon
05, Mar, 2022 @10:00 AM
Roman Abramovich gains EU citizenship via Portuguese passport
Billionaire owner of Chelsea qualifies under Portugal’s naturalisation scheme for descendants of Sephardic Jews
Mark Townsend
19, Dec, 2021 @7:30 AM
Northern Ireland to allow double-jabbed US and EU visitors without quarantine
Stormont decides to relax Covid travel rules from August 1, despite warnings of more severe infection wave
Rory Carroll
29, Jul, 2021 @6:55 PM
UK travel firms say holidays abroad will be back this summer
Despite warning from MPs against overseas trips, the tourism industry is reporting an increase in bookings from July onwards
Isabel Choat
03, May, 2021 @4:23 PM
Greece in talks with UK to allow holidays with vaccine passports
Greek tourism minister said he hopes to ‘dovetail’ with Boris Johnson’s roadmap out of lockdown
Helena Smith in Athens and Daniel Boffey in Brussels
24, Feb, 2021 @5:33 PM
Italy's remote villages now make an ideal escape
With Italians holidaying at home post-lockdown but wary of busy hotspots, the country’s historic but often half-empty villages are emerging from the shadows
James Imam
22, Jun, 2020 @5:30 AM
Foreign holidays will reopen to Brits this month, say travel industry bosses
Group of 500 companies ‘has government assurances’ that travel corridors will be in place by end of June, but is demanding an official statement to save operators from going bust
Isabel Choat
09, Jun, 2020 @5:03 PM
Trekking the Sabine Hills: in praise of Italy, summer and freedom
Author Tim Parks recalls dawn starts, oven-hot air and the chorus of cicadas that accompanied his trek through the hills north of Rome
Tim Parks
30, May, 2020 @8:00 AM
Our Europe: 27 things we love about the continent
To celebrate Europe, writers in all 27 EU countries share a favourite place that evokes the spirit of their nation
07, Mar, 2020 @7:00 AM
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