Google Maps went online for the first time 20 years ago. The most frequently rated place in this country on the digital map ...

Rising across a hilltop, this was the country’s capital in the Middle Ages ... capital of Austria’s Tyrol region. Set on the floor of the Inn Valley on the banks of the Wipptal River, the ...

Not an isolated incident - and yet it makes you shake your head: Blind faith in a navigation device once again led to a curious incident in Tyrol. A ...

Next year’s Olympics might be called the Milan Cortina Games but it will actually be staged across a large swath of northern ...

Italy's best white-wine region revisited. A rather shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. We tend to think of Italy as red-wine country but I come across more and more ...

As resorts pivot from expanding their ski areas to focussing on sustainability and quality, Italy continues to push its ski ...

Germany's conservative CDU/CSU alliance has dropped to just 28% in a new poll, just 19 days before the country votes in one ...

With over 50,000 kilometres of well-signposted trails, Austria offers everything from gentle lakeside walks to high-alpine adventures.

Indeed, Paris fascinates with its atmosphere, as it repeatedly witnesses marriage proposals. And the narrow streets, canals, ...

Driving on Vermont’s Interstate highways in winter, I often notice large hawks perched in trees on woodland edges at regular ...

Citizenship in Austria could become harder to obtain under a far-right-led FPÖ government. The party is pushing for new ...