12 Best Hotels in Paris – Taste Travel Guide
From luxury to personality, from boutique to heritage, from quite lovely to spectacular, we select the best hotels in Paris for you to have a mooch around in 2020. From the ones you definitely...
From the historical cities of Rome and Athens to modern, vibrant areas like Barcelona and Berlin, Europe has activities and attractions for all kinds of tourists.
From luxury to personality, from boutique to heritage, from quite lovely to spectacular, we select the best hotels in Paris for you to have a mooch around in 2020. From the ones you definitely...
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You learn some astonishing facts on a tour of France’s mesmerising, history-filled Loire Valley region. For instance, Louis XIV, one of the country’s greatest kings and the builder of Versailles, never took baths. In...
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You know yourself – the worst thing about visiting vineyards and wineries for a good look-see and some educated tasting is that you can’t really sample more than a glass or two of the...
You would pay top dollar for this hair-raising ride if it was in Disneyland or Ocean World. But the white-knuckle adventure that had me clinging to the safety bar for dear life was a...
Poor old (actually, very old) Venice has taken something of a beating from the weather in recent months, but its spirit is nigh-on unbreakable, so it is onwards and upwards for years to come....
One glimpse of fabulous Lake Como in Northern Italy and you can understand immediately why George Clooney fell in love with it. The Hollywood heartthrob has a home on the shores of the beautiful...
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Hotels come in all shapes and sizes, all manner of design and décor. The primary thing they have in common, of course, is the room you sleep in, but wouldn’t life be boring if...
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Portuguese cuisine is one of the most influential in Europe – did you know that Portugal popularised tomatoes as well as potatoes? Customarily, fresh seafood is nigh-on a staple diet, but meat eaters will...
Like numerous restaurants in any capital city around the globe, it isn’t always easy to sort out quality from quantity. When you’re focusing on a city that has a long-established tradition and reputation as...
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Of all European cities, Berlin is the one that relaxes the rules to allow for a walk on the wild side – at any time of the day or night. It really has something...
Scenery does not get much more spectacular than the Cirque de Gavarnie, high in the French Pyrenean Mountains near the border with Spain. Just the sight of the sheer cliffs rising nearly 5,000ft from...
So many people forget about the small but beautiful cities outside Spain’s tourist-magnets of Madrid, Barcelona, and the country’s many coastal attractions. That’s a real pity, as somewhere such as Seville (not forgetting the...
It seems as if the Gods themselves have spoken. Known as the ‘cradle of the Renaissance’ and a globally recognised city in which to experience art in many forms and Tuscan cuisine of every...
It was once a tiny fishing village with 130 boats pulled up along its long sandy beach. Nestled between the mountains and the sea Collioure, near Perpignan and a few kilometres from the Pyrenees,...
Not sure about you, but no one I know in Ireland has ever been to Luxembourg (and no, I don’t have any politicians or bureaucrats as friends, thanks for asking). Now that various airlines,...
We have done the research to help you find the best places to go in the UK and Europe with our Top Ten UK and European Hideaways Guide, we will show you the places...
Located in northern France, in the Nord-Pas de Calais region, and close to the border of Belgium, Lille is known throughout France for its busy cultural life (enhanced by a sizeable student population) and...
It is so popular that it has been fought over for nearly two thousand years by pirates, Romans, Arabs, French, British and Spanish. Now, after a few days on the beautiful island of Menorca,...
Spain’s capital Madrid is home to over 3 million people, with more than 6 million tourists flocking to its city each year. Madrid is a multicultural city, mixing the modern with old world traditions....
Venice is, above all, a city like no other. Built on small islands around the Venice Lagoon, or Laguna Veneta, the city of Venice actually expands beyond the famed maze of canals that grow...