There are many reasons to visit the green Atlantic island of Madeira. Some come for the excellent walking trails, others to enjoy the slow pace of life and the fresh food and wine for which the island is well known. Stay for a while and you’re bound to encounter one of the island’s many festivals. [...]
Anna Butcher is our expert walking guide based in Greece. Read about Anna’s walking holidays in Greece . Here she writes about her recent group walking trip to Ethiopia: This trip to Ethiopia is rather different to what most people would expect. Rather than visiting the historical sites of the north, we travelled south and [...]
Imagine an island filled with the most colourful flowers in bloom where even the hedges that frame the quiet lanes are made of up of miles of vibrant hydrangea bushes. If we add in a sprinkling of banana and pineapple trees you’ll probably have placed your imaginary island somewhere in the Caribbean. Yet the Azores, a [...]
Perhaps the best way to truly grasp the size of Argentina is to consider that it would take 5 hours to fly from top to bottom. Put another way, the distance between the city of Salta in the north and Ushuaia in the south is further than that between London and Cyprus. Yet in [...]
I haven’t flown on either Ryanair or easyJet for quite some time. I always avoid Ryanair because I object to the way its passengers are treated. As far as I am concerned, this airline makes a sport of demeaning its clients and of using every trick in the book to extract every last penny by [...]
Alentejo Coast The Alentejo region of Portugal is known for its flat plains dotted with distinctive cork trees and its pretty hilltop villages made up of white-washed houses. Yet many visitors come to the Alentejo to experience the region’s stunning coast. Stretching out from the south of Lisbon toward the popular beaches of the Algarve, [...]
‘Washing and cooking facilities are primitive’. You would expect to see such a comment on a negative Tripadvisor review, but it might surprise you to find these words on promotional material written by the owners of a property. Yet this unorthodox approach is exactly how the Kolarbyn Eco-Lodge in Sweden is attempting to entice guests. [...]
One of the traveller’s great delights is to come across the unexpected in the midst of the familiar – to be taken by surprise by somewhere that is “just around the corner”. Karpenisi is just such a place. In the heart of Central Greece in the prefecture of Evrytania, it is mountainous, tree-covered, chequered with [...]
Our overseas representatives are the vital front-of-line, client-facing staff for Sunvil and its sister company GIC The Villa Collection. Many have been with us for years. Linda on Crete has worked in Chania for Sunvil for over 25 years – Monty Don was filmed doing her job with her commenting on how well or badly [...]
This was my first trip to Central America let alone Costa Rica. I was excited at the prospect of travelling to this diverse yet compact country. I wasn’t to be disappointed… After a late night arrival in San Jose I was ready the following day for the first part of my trip. I [...]
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