A stay at the Hotel de la Ville. It works! My wife, Kerry, and I each tossed a coin over our left shoulder into the famed Trevi Fountain in Rome when we were there in 2014. Myth has it, if you do so, you are guaranteed to return to The Eternal City to huck yet another coin into the water of the ornate Trevi. Be it magic, fate, self-fulfilling proph...

​ Talayotic Menorca has been granted World Heritage Site status by UNESCO for its prehistoric culture and heritage on the island, with an exceptional number of monuments that demonstrate the different stages of prehistoric Menorca. The site is of particular importance given the impressive standard of the preservation of the monuments, thanks to con...

The Royal Eise-Eisinga Planetarium in Franeker has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Planetarium, the 12th UNESCO site in The Netherlands, is the oldest functioning planetarium in the world. Between 1774 and 1781, the Dutch amateur astronomer Eise Eisinga built a movable model of the solar system. To make it fit in his living room, Eisinga, ...

Hart Shoreditch hotel has unveiled its London Design Festival programme for 2023. The hotel will stage a series of events with this year's theme Expect the unexpected. For the 2023 festival the hotel worked with East London based artist/illustrator James Daw who works in collage and mixed media by creating textures, scribbles and splodges that are ...

This is the most envy-worthy way to see the Portuguese capital Like a World War II machine gunner, I hunker down in the sidecar of the motorcycle. You see, during the war in Europe, the Americans retrofitted motorcycle sidecars with machine guns so the soldier passenger could exchange fire with the enemy. Motorcycle sidecars were also used in the w...

Bikepacking in the Lake District, by Ed Hunton,is a new Cicerone guidebook to eight challenging bike rides in the UK Lake District. Bikepacking is the off-road equivalent of cycle touring wild camping or staying in the usual accommodation options. It offers cyclists the opportunity to immerse themselves in the environment and explore the on two whe...