Travel

Could the erotic bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey do for Portland and Seattle what the Twilight series of books and movies did for the sleepy town of Forks on Washington's Olympic Peninsula? Tourism promoters hope so.

Bicycle tours help you experience your destination with all your senses

It's a July evening on the terrace of the legendary Café Flore. A coiffed woman sips chilled wine, another savours her chocolate eclair. The one thing to complete a perfect picture of Parisian life? A dash of French rudeness.

Italian beaches were devoid of their usual August crowds on Friday as beach clubs staged a short strike. The strike was called to protest against a government plan that would see the right to operate patches of seafront decided by auction from 2016.

Majestic birds, exterminated a century ago, have been reintroduced from Norway

Colosseum restoration starts with lean concerns

Where else can you look down on the Doge's Palace and St.

I've been travelling to Venice for more than 30 years. On my most recent trip to film two television shows and research my guidebook, the city felt different.

TOFINO -- The black-and-white sign in Tofino's harbour is a pretty low-key affair, an arched orca adding a decorative flourish at the top, but there's nothing modest about the statement it makes.

Visitors to the Danish capital need not miss the city's famed Little Mermaid statue this summer even though the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale heroine has gone to China.