Europe

For this month’s Travel Tales, we caught up with newsreader and Escape to the Country presenter, Sonali Shah. She told us all about early holiday memories visiting family in Kenya, her favourite foods from around the world and why she thinks Michelle Obama would make a cracking travel companion. Tell ...

The European Parliament has backed new proposals that will help Irish people who lose their passports when travelling outside the EU. MEPs this week voted on rules to improve emergency help for those who have lost their passports and who may find themselves in a place that doesn’t have any ...

Travellers tend to associate Europe with romance, and while the continent certainly deserves that reputation, not much is known of how it celebrates the opposite: heartbreak. Two cities in Europe love breakups so much, that they have museums dedicated to the phenomenon. One retells a tragic love story from mediaeval ...

Nestled in the forested hills of central Vietnam two giant concrete hands emerge from the trees, holding up a glimmering golden bridge crowded with gleeful visitors taking selfies at the country’s latest eccentric tourist draw. Designed to make visitors feel like they’re taking a stroll on a shimmering thread stretching ...

They are fascinating, shocking – and heart-breaking. These images show Edinburgh and Glasgow in the late 1950s and early 1960s at a time when the nation was on the cusp of change, when traditional industries were struggling to survive and historic buildings were making way for modern designs. Some capture ...

In 2013, David Cope opened Publik Wine Bar in Cape Town. After travelling to Copenhagen, he drew inspiration from the intimate neighbourhood wine bars found on every street corner in Europe. But Jozi types don’t have to trek to Copenhagen or Prague to enjoy the experience, or even south of ...

GVS News Desk | GVS: You have achieved quite a lot at such a young age, what struggles did you face in the journey to become your own boss? Safaa Rauf: My age was the biggest factor that kept me away from big projects, big multinationals and executing everything that ...

Travel to Mexico by United States citizens declined sharply in April, a result of factors such as U.S. travel alerts and deteriorating security, according to two tourism industry experts. Data from the immigration unit of the Interior Secretariat (Segob) shows that 845,000 United States visitors arrived in Mexico by plane ...

A high-level federal environment official and an academic have called on government and other stakeholders to make Mexico’s tourism industry more responsible and sustainable. Lucía Ruiz, a strategy director at the Natural Protected Areas Commission (Conanp), told the newspaper Milenio that rules need to be put in place to avoid ...

Andrej Babiš in Singapore, photo: ČTK/Radek Jozífek Over 85 percent of Czech exports go to European countries, the vast majority of them EU member states. To help diversify the destinations where Czech products are sold, as well as explore new opportunities, Andrej Babiš has been visiting new potential markets since ...