Fantasy nerds: if you've ever fancied yourself on the throne at Kings Landing, battling for the right to the Seven Kingdoms, here's your chance.

The fjord-indented coastline delights Gillian Orr during the long daylight hours.

At a remote spot deep in the French countryside, Britons Bob and Diane Kirkwood have created an eco-friendly refuge that is like taking a step back in time.

Sweden unveiled a permanent monument to arguably its greatest cultural influences since the Vikings this northern Spring... Abba The Museum.

If the annual cheese roll in England or wife carrying competition in Finland is too boring for you, here are five very strange ones that might be worth visiting, even if it's just to tweet a pic from.

The murky mists of time have thrown up many bizarre tales of legendary Dartmoor, writes Paul Rush.

Ewan McDonald went on a family holiday. The riot police came along too.

British Prime Minister David Cameron says Europe is "missing out big time" on fracking and Britain will be making a "big mistake" if it shuns shale gas extraction.

The Greeks invented the most enduring, most popular, most commercially sophisticated and prescient system of governance ever devised, but the nation that perfected democracy seems to be struggling to preserve its economy.

Europe's most affordable ski slopes are in Poland, as Jared Savage discovers

Kiwis are renowned for our "throw your sausie on the barbie" culture, but we could learn a thing or two from a country that might just love its sausages even more than we love ours.

Julia Shallcrass discovers a love for cruising around the Greek Isles on a 12-night voyage aboard the Crown Princess.

A political tour is the perfect way to get to grips with the recent history of a nation, as former foreign correspondent Raymond Whitaker discovered on a return visit to the region.

Zurich is not only the city of banks, but also of public baths - or as the Swiss would say "Badis."

Famous crime writer Donna Leon takes Linda Herrick on a murderer's tour of Venice.