Thinking about travelling onboard The Great Southern? Here’s everything you need to know. “The Great Southern is certainly the best train route for scenery.” Says The Great Southern’s general manager, Bruce Smith. And he would certainly know; Bruce has been working on trains for 28 years – including The Ghan and Indian Pacific, the sister routes […]
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An A-List weekend in Cannes Every May since 1946, the red carpet has been rolled out onto Cannes’ palm-lined boulevards for its International Film Festival, turning the French Riviera resort city into a playground for silver screen stars. Credit: Alamy Much like the celebrities it attracts, Cannes isn’t camera shy: it’s a postcard-perfect town bursting
We might be a bit biased, but we love visiting Iceland in summer. Sure, the country looks particularly picturesque covered in snow – and some of our writers swear by a winter visit – but a summer trip is hard to beat. Pic: Amanda Tomlin © Iceland is one of those places where you can
Sitting astride Europe and Asia, the best things to do in Istanbul are a reflection of the colourful, clamorous culture-clash of East meets West in a fascinating city where old meets new, religion meets hedonism, and grandeur meets tumbledown. Its food alone is an exuberant coming-together of cuisines, from the ancient spice markets to contemporary
Looking for the freedom and flexibility that a road trip offers? Discover 12 ideal road-trip destinations in Europe. While we all may dream of idyllic vacations in far-flung destinations, deep down we know there’s nothing quite as satisfying as a road trip. You can go wherever you want, when you want, and best of all
Discoveries of spring when at Pilatus. Have you ever yearned to step back and immerse yourself in places where history resonates with the present? As the winter’s cloak recedes and the Alpine blossoms emerge in their spring attire, no moment is more opportune for a deep dive into the enchanting blend of Swiss history and
From the wildly festive Maspalomas Pride to Berlin’s LGBTQ+ Pride Month, discover six of Europe’s most popular Pride events. June 28, 1969, marks the symbolic birth of the LGBT community’s rights movements. On that day, a police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York, turned into a series of riots and
