Dodging the tourist traps, Ewan McDonald discovers a very old new world just off the beaten track in Barcelona.

An experimental surgical knife can help surgeons make sure they've removed all the cancerous tissue, doctors reported.

Two wheels is the ideal way to travel the back roads, writes Trish Murphy.

None of Euroland's key actors seems willing to admit that the present strategy is untenable.

Three stylish women, frequent visitors to France, share their favourite Parisian haunts.

David Hill joins the trail of people who have gazed at or shrunk from a prolific Norwegian sculptor's work.

Geoff Cumming samples the hearty peasant fare of Portugal.

Aerial trams and cable cars take visitors up mountains, over rivers and above cities, and sometimes these cable cars are the destination themselves.

Fifty years ago, Bruno Amitrano opened a bar half-way up the hill from the tiny beach in the seaside resort of Positano. Seventeen years ago, his daughter Ornella and her husband Mario converted the bar into a restaurant.

Liz Light follows the trail of a tortured artistic genius to a quaint Dutch village.

The German capital's eccentric eateries come with a dash of Kiwi in the shape of decent coffee, finds Eva Buzo.