Year: 2026

South Moravia: wine, castles and traditions

South Moravia holds almost the entire vineyard area of the Czech Republic, in a landscape of gentle hills, villages with whole streets of wine cellars,

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Bohemian Switzerland: sandstone arch and gorges

Bohemian Switzerland is a national park in northern Czechia, on the German border, made up of sandstone eroded into towers, walls and stone labyrinths. It

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Subotica: an Art Nouveau masterpiece in Serbia

Subotica is a town of around a hundred thousand people in northern Vojvodina, ten kilometres from the Hungarian border. It has the densest concentration of

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Fruška Gora: the wine route of Vojvodina

Fruška Gora is a low ridge rising out of the Vojvodina plain above the Danube, south of Novi Sad. It was declared the first national

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Kopački Rit: the Amazon of Europe in Croatia

Kopački Rit is a floodplain of about two hundred and thirty square kilometres in the north eastern corner of Croatia, where the Drava flows into

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Osijek: the Baroque capital of Slavonia

Osijek is the largest city in Slavonia, on the bank of the Drava in the eastern corner of Croatia. It has a Baroque fortress quarter

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Hvar island: beaches, lavender and nightlife

Hvar island is the sunniest in Croatia and, unusually, does three completely different things well: beaches with genuinely clear water, lavender fields that once made

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Dubrovnik in 3 days: walls, forts and locations

Dubrovnik in 3 days is enough time to do the city properly rather than at the pace the cruise ships set. It was never simply

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Diocletian Palace in Split: a visitor guide

Diocletian Palace is the best preserved Roman palace in the world and, at the same time, the living centre of a modern city. There is

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