Our Verona walking tour itinerary takes in Verona’s most romantic spots. Verona is romantic whichever way you look at it. It’s a city made for unhurried ambles hand-in-hand. And you don’t need to have read Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet nor visit the balcony where the fictional characters declared their love to appreciate the romance of … Read more
Mantua is a marvellous little city dominated by a monumental castle, dotted with palaces, piazzas and arcades, and surrounded by serene lakes. So it’s hard to imagine how Mantua is something of a ‘hidden gem’, more popular with Italian travellers than foreign visitors. But it is, and that local appeal and everyday life are reasons … Read more
The best Australian food and drink festivals being held in 2024-2025 include everything from A Taste of the Kakadu, a celebration of Indigenous bush foods, and the Good Food and Wine Show, Australia’s longest-running food and wine event, to quirkier niche festivals, such as the Truffle Kerfuffle in Western Australia and the Darwin International Laksa … Read more
Multicultural Australia is where you can get a taste of Australia’s rich and delicious culinary diversity – in the suburbs of every city, and in regional towns across Australia. This is a guide to where to sample everything from Vietnamese-Australian pho to traditional Iraqi lamb by local experts who cook, eat, grow, and write about … Read more
Snowboarding in Morocco had been a goal of mine since Lara and I had attempted to ski on a slope without a chairlift in Ifrane some years earlier. The plan was to round off a Moroccan road trip with my wife and mother-in-law, with a couple of days snowboarding in Oukaïmeden in the High Atlas … Read more