Greg Dixon dons his walking shoes to visit the ancient sites in the Ring of Kerry.

This picturesque alpine village leads a precarious existence, clinging to a dizzyingly steep hillside in the mountains that sweep down to the French Riviera.

It's quite a trek up to the village of Saorge, but it's worth it for the views, if you don't have vertigo, writes Alison McCulloch.

In what space weather forecasters have called the most potent solar storm since 2004, the Northern Lights' colourful display was stronger than usual, leaving spectators in awe of the shimmering skies above North America and Europe.

Irish hospitality abounds in Galway's pubs, museums, parks, festivals ... and pubs.

More than a dozen lighthouses in Sardinia are to be leased to private businesses and converted into boutique hotels.

Photographer talks of bloodbath in Sicily 20 years after murder of anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone

Launched in July 2011, this luxurious ship cost about $900 million to build and features state-of-the-art innovations including hireable cabanas decked out with picnic hampers, iPads loaded with music, movies, games and magazines and glass elevators that zoom up and down the central atrium around a live tree suspended in mid-air.

Planning well in advance helps to introduce children to the delights of Europe, writes Josie McNaught.

Valkenburg, in the southwest of the Netherlands, boasts a unique 10km underground cycle path - making it the only public subterranean bike trail in Europe.

A subterranean tour of Valkenburg is too close for comfort, writes Kevin Pilley.

Trousers being sold by a British discount chain clothing store have sparked online outrage over their sexist...

You can't help but feel a little frisson of excitement as you pass through the tall iron gates of the Shangri-La in Paris.

The magnificent Temple of Apollo at Delphi was once home to the Pythian Oracle, the most famous prophet in the ancient world. Although the great buildings here now lie in ruins, the site still has a powerful atmosphere - it's just the sort of place gods and oracles would be expected to dwell.

The ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi still hold a strange power, writes Jim Eagles.

Dartmoor is incredibly beautiful, filled with quaint old cottages, cute ponies and horned sheep, rushing rivers, wide grassy moors and spectacular rocky outcrops. But when the mists roll across the landscape and the light fades, it's a rather malevolent place ... and it's not hard to see why Arthur Conan Doyle's classic Sherlock Holmes story 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' was based here.

An evil squire, infamous prison and dark tales lure Jim Eagles to Dartmoor.

A blindfolded tour in Portugal opens a new sensory world for Robin Esrock.