VIVA Cruises is a premier operator of luxury cruising on the major rivers of Europe including the Danube, Elbe, Moselle, Rhine, Rhône and Seine. It also offers cruises on the Main-Danube Canal and Baltic Sea. VIVA TWO is the flagship in VIVA's eight strong river fleet and the second new ship, after VIVA ONE, to be launched within the year. The ship...

A narrowboat is one designed to fit the UK's integrated network of canal waterways and locks. These canals originally provided a nationwide transport network during the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th Centuries. The narrowboats that plied them were first horse drawn and then powered by steam and then diesel engines. With the coming of th...

MAMMA MIA! THE PARTY has been playing to truly rapturous response at the O2 in London since 2019. But it should come as no surprise that so many people want to join the party. For this is a wonderfully exuberant, and hugely enjoyable, high-quality dinner show that takes Mamma Mia the Musical and delivers an all singing, all dancing, 'all in' evenin...

We step onto the cliff top outcropping of rock and let the blue sky and lake vista envelope us. "This viewpoint doesn't even have a name," says guide Diana Blinkert of Visit Essen. "I just call it The Rock. We're so lucky to have found it off this little side path off the BaldeneySteig." This type of epiphany comes early – and often – on the Balden...

​ Frightened by war and weary of Covid, I went in search of another world. I found it in the Scottish Highlands. ​I was a 3-hour drive from my TV in Prestwick where the world seemed dominated by war, Covid and political indiscretion. In the silence and beauty of the Cromarty Firth in the Scottish Highlands at sunrise, I might as well have been...

A Wiltshire towns and villages map has been launched by VisitWiltshire, with a focus on sustainable travel and transport. Wiltshire is a county in South West England and borders with Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. The map aims to raise awareness and encourage visitors to use sustainable means of transport w...