FRANCE is well known for excellent food – it is a way of life.
Travel writer Ron Smith sets off on a trail over the First World War cemeteries of northern France and Belgium...
Travel writer Ron Smith unearths stories of how the Nazis tried to start a new religion and how a cathedral was robbed of its treasures, as he explores…
MOVING on from the Quedlinburg area of Germany (previous article in this series) we go by train for a little over an hour to Dessau.
NAUMBURG is a lovely town in central Germany and fairly easy to get to.
JERUSALEM is a unique place.
CAMBRIDGE'S history as a town can be traced back to the year 1AD.
BUCHAREST, with a population of just over two million, is full of surprising contrasts, which makes it fascinating and well worth visiting.
THE eastern side of Switzerland is separated from Germany by the Lake Constance.
THE Seiser Alm is an area in the most northerly part of Italy, in one of the regions that more or less govern themselves, which some would see as a good…
POLAND has such a tormented history, perhaps nowhere more so than in Szczecin.
NORWAY really is a special place.
OSLO has the largest share of population, at around 600,000, of the 4.7 million people in Norway.
IT IS always fun to discover interesting places, and Louhans is like stepping into a time warp.
Travel writer Ron Smith heads for the Emerald Isle to Galway, a mix of the ancient and modern, and whose visitors' book includes Christopher Columbus,…
KIEL has always had a tradition of shipping and so is open to the world, and this shows in the slogan ‘Kiel – sailing city’ in English,…
AMRUM is an island off the north-west coast of Germany, in the North Sea. Just 20.5 square kilometres, it lies straggled on a north-south line with one…
THE clue, of course, is in the name. The German for Salt is Salz – Salzburg is the German for salt city.
I HAVE a confession to make ........ I seriously underestimated what Dublin has to offer. I had thought that 48 hours would be enough to see the major…
BERWICK is a popular stopping place between the Hull and Newcastle ferries and Scotland. There are so many Scottish flags and items in the shops that…
