Where to go, what it costs, and the rules that change the trip
Bulgaria became the 21st country to use the euro on January 1 2026. The lev, pegged for years, was converted at a fixed 1.95583 to the euro. For a traveller it's simple. No more exchange booths at Sofia airport, no more mental division by two, and the same card works in Bulgaria…
Walk out of Catania's cathedral square, past the elephant fountain, and look for the stairs going down by the fountain of Amenano. The noise reaches…
If Paris is on your list for the next few years, cross one thing off. The Centre Pompidou is shut. Its modern art collection closed to the public on…
La Cité du Vin opened on the Garonne in June 2016 and turns ten this year. The building by XTU, the practice of Anouk Legendre and Nicolas…
Cruising has never been bigger. The industry body CLIA counted a record 37.2 million ocean cruise passengers in 2025, up from 34.6 million the year…
After about ten years of talks, the EU has a deal on updating its air passenger rules, the regulation everyone calls EU261. Parliament and the member…
Every city that wants a museum to fix its economy ends up pointing at Bilbao. Nearly thirty years after Frank Gehry's titanium building opened in…
Every summer, British fraud reports follow the holiday calendar. Action Fraud, the UK's national fraud reporting centre, logged 6,066 holiday fraud…
If you've rented an apartment in Italy in the last few years, you probably met the key box. A small grey safe bolted to a railing or a door frame, a…
Lisbon charges every overnight guest €4 a night. It used to be €2. The city council voted to double it in July 2024 and the new rate started on…
