Travel to Chania of Crete, one of the most beautiful places in Greece.

Always the first thing you hear about Chania - the Venetian Harbour, the old port, the narrow shopping streets and waterfront restaurants. Chania is also one of the two places you are most likely to see on arriving in Crete. It is beautiful - that is to say much of the Chania you will want to see is clustered close to the harbor - old buildings, museums, churches and crafts shops.

 

 

 

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Top 10 Places to Visit in Belgium and Why

Belgium is a small and beautiful country in northwestern Europe and offers many places of interest for every tourist. There are many interesting architectural buildings, monuments, museums to visit and nature lovers can enjoy their time in the beautiful parks, on the beach or even in the hilly Ardennes.

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Travel to Budapest, one of the most beautiful cities in central Europe

Straddling the romantic Danube River, with the Buda Hills to the west and the start of the Great Plain to the east, Budapest is the most beautiful city in central Europe. And the human legacy is just as remarkable as Mother Nature’s. 

 

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Five free things to do in Rome

Much of Rome can be seen without spending a penny (unless you insist on casting your coppers into one of the city's many fountains). The glorious Pantheon, Hadrian's 2nd-century masterpiece, ought to be your first port of call, but arrive at 7pm and you can take advantage of a free 30-minute tour with the company Angel Tours.

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Travel to Berlin: Top 10 Picks

Twenty years after its post-Wall rebirth, Berlin is a scene-stealing combo of glamour and grit, teeming with top museums and galleries, grand opera and guerrilla clubs, gourmet temples and ethnic snack shacks. Whether your tastes run to posh or punk, you can sate them in Berlin.

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Copenhagen, Denmark: the perfect break

Copenhagen has always been famous for its culture. Now it is home to the 'world's best restaurant' too.

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Venice Sightseeing & Venice islands

Venetia Ghetto

Venice's Ghetto was the first segregated Jewish community in Europe. It was created by the Venetian Republic in 1516 to placate the Roman Catholic Church, which had forced the expulsion of Jews from many European countries. (The Venetians were more interested in wealth on Earth than in religious ideology; if creating a nighttime dormitory quarter was required to keep a community of Jewish financiers and goldsmiths intact, that was good enough for the Republic).

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Venice Sightseeing

Piazza San Marco

The Piazza San Marco, or St. Mark's Square, is one of the world's great squares. It's also a honeypot for swarms of daytrippers and other tourists, but don't let that bother you: The square is vast, the crowds are good-natured, and backpackers coexist peacefully with the well-heeled tourists who enjoy overpriced drinks and orchestral music at the café tables.

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London Sightseeing

MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES

When it comes to sightseeing, you are spoiled for choice. Indoors or outdoors, underground or overground, traditional English heritage or modern European attitude- all are on offer here.

But be sure to pace yourself: some of the venues detailed in these pages, such as the British Museum, can’t be covered in a morning.

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Why to travel to Brussels?

Why Brussels?

I first visited Brussels in 2006. It’s not all Eurocrats. There are chic restaurants and hot waffle stands, Baroque guildhalls and Tintin murals...

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Top 5 places to go skinny dipping in Europe

1. Formentera, Spain

Tan lines? What tan lines? As the smallest and most southerly of Spain’s Balearic Islands, Formentera boasts some of the Mediterranean’s finest beaches.

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Prague Sightseeing

What makes Prague unforgetable?









 

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London-Places of Interest

Albert Memorial

This memorial was not of Albert’s wish; nevertheless it is very impressive and is, if anything, a memorial to Victorian arts and crafts. The Prince Consort (1816-1861) sits under a canopy holding the catalogue to the Great Exhibition of 1851, beneath him is a high relief frieze of 200 figures: musicians, poets, painters etc.

Getting there Kensington Gore. South Kensington tube.
Read more about Buckingham Palace, Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, London Eye...

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