In the rocky Croatian hills, Jim Eagles enjoys the comfort of fiery spirits and food.

This intriguing city with Slovakian and Hungarian heritage is next year’s European Capital of Culture.

The southern port of Marseilles is unlike other French cities. That becomes apparent as soon as the visitor steps from the train at Saint-Charles terminus, high above the city.

Communist East Germany allowed Western drug companies to use its medical patients as unwitting guinea pigs for tests.

Santa Claus? No grown-up believes in him any more! And yet, even the adults can be seen standing reverently when visiting Santa's office in Finland.

Jenna Hand sees the best of Vienna on the cheap.

In Cairo, Kevin Pilley gets a taste for one of the Arab world's most evocative treats.

While it may be true that the Irish like their Guinness, it's even truer they like their whiskey as well.

Everyone worries that the All Blacks will have their minds on summer back home instead of the test against England this Sunday.

Discipline, or lack of, has become a prevailing theme throughout the autumn tests and of all the statistics to emerge in the past few weeks, writes Gregor Paul.

All sorts of damning praise is leaching from the British media.

Geoff Cumming visits the centre that shows off Lisbon's turbulent history.

Among Burgundy's mosaic of modest vine plots, one may produce dense and silky wine; another just a few metres away may make something more fruity and feminine, Caroline Berdon discovers.

Perfect porcini, peccorino, pasta... Jim Eagles relishes a meal in.

Venetia Sherson explores Italy's wild heart, where strange rituals flourish and cheese-producing sheep can be sponsored.