Europe and Middle East

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Insider guide to Frankfurt

01/10/2018 by .
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Frankfurt is where a New York Skyscraper Skyline meets reassuring Germanic reliability. Germany’s fifth city is rapidly becoming an attractive weekend break.

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Taste Of Andalucia Tour

03/09/2018 by .
Dining in Antequera bull ring

Potato salad  – a Spanish regional speciality?  Really?
Ask anyone to rattle off a few Spanish delicacies and the results will be fairly predictable – gazpacho, patatas bravas, tortilla, paella, boquerones and a preponderance of bull’s bits will all rate a mention.

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On the Trail of Frankenstein in Geneva

12/08/2018 by .

Travelling the Bernina Express. Legendary Alpine train from Italy to Switzerland

12/08/2018 by .
Michael Edwards samples the Bernina Express, one of Europe’s legendary rail journeys from Italy to Switzerland. Bernina Experience Open Carriage

Michael Edwards samples the Bernina Express, one of Europe’s legendary rail journeys from Italy to Switzerland.

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Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel. In Belgravia, London’s most glamourous neighbourhood.

01/08/2018 by .
Join Michael Edwards take you on an unforgettable tour of fancy London with his Insider Guide to Belgravia

Michael Edwards takes you on an unforgettable tour of fancy Belgravia while reviewing the Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel

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The best of Touring Brittany by Motorhome

23/07/2018 by .
Touring Brittany by Motorhome

Andy Mossack swaps his usual luxury hotel for a new Bailey Advance 74-2 motorhome as he goes touring Brittany by motorhome.

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A weekend on Vis Island. Explore one of Croatia’s beautiful Islands.

16/07/2018 by .

Northern Germany by bike

15/07/2018 by .
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Rupert Parker explores the three north German cities of Lübeck, Lüneberg and Hamburg on two wheels 

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Carinthia . The Land of the Lakes and soaring peaks

28/06/2018 by .

Guernsey and Alderney – Channel Islands at War

19/06/2018 by .
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The new film ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society’ based on the bestselling book, focusses on Guernsey’s experience during WW2. Indeed the Channel Islands were the only British territories to be occupied by the Nazis and it was a tough time. Food was short, communications were limited and nobody knew what the future might hold.

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