Rebecca Ann Hughes travel tips

A volcano in Iceland has erupted for the fourth time in three months, with this being the most powerful so far.

When Poppy was quoted nearly €7,000 for a family trip to Lapland by a holiday provider, she knew she could do better.

The table is set with a crisp white tablecloth, there’s a soft glow from a tablelamp and outside the window, snow-dusted trees are whizzing past at 120 kilometres per hour.

Your summer holiday might be more expensive this year if you are planning on flying with some European companies.

Airlines are trialling new techniques to shave minutes off turnaround procedures as a way to cut costs.

Visitors to the southern Spanish city of Seville will soon have to pay to visit one of its most popular attractions.

Travel experienced a boom in 2023, with visitor numbers in many hotspot destinations returning to pre-pandemic levels.

The Eiffel Tower is closed for a fourth day running on Thursday (22 February) as workers strike in France’s capital city.

The pastel-painted villages and cliffs terraced with lemon groves of Italy’s Amalfi Coast attract some five million tourists a year.

When Lyn and Steve Stokes retired at the age of 48, they did not dream of settling down into the sedate lifestyle of the typical pensioner.

On Monday, one European airline started inviting passengers to ‘weigh in’ before flights.

Rail travel across Spain will be severely disrupted this month as staff begin walkouts tomorrow (Friday).

If you are an English speaker planning to move to Europe in 2024, you might want to find a country where you’re likely to be understood from the get-go.

A dream trip to Egypt ended up a nightmare for one French tourist after she was falsely accused of trying to smuggle an antiquity home as a souvenir.

The European Commission has submitted a proposal to increase the basic fee for a Schengen visa in 2024.

It’s full steam ahead for rail travel in 2024 as yet another new route is set to link up key destinations in Europe.

Entering the European Union will get more complicated for non-EU nationals from autumn this year.

Extreme weather events have been causing travel chaos across Europe this winter.

Japan will introduce new visitor restrictions at one of its major attractions this year in a bid to protect the site from overtourism.

A major travel search engine is giving people the option of excluding flights using Boeing 737 Max 9 aircraft from its results.

Extreme weather events have been causing travel chaos across Europe this winter.