Paris, Amsterdam, Venice, Bali and Florence… all places that most people love to visit or dream of doing so one day.
Yet some of the most popular destinations for holidaymakers are fed up with British tourists and are actively trying to deter them from visiting.
Indeed, Parisians have recently hit out at Emily In Paris fans who are ‘invading’ Europe’s City of Light to take selfies with the sites made famous by the Netflix series.
Furious locals scrawled angry graffiti
On a drizzly Friday morning, Sara Sutherland wakes up smug in the knowledge that today she won’t have to drag her children out of bed for the rigmarole of the school run.
Instead, she and seven-year-old twins, Charlotte and Harriett, will be flying to Barcelona for the day.
But unlike other parents who dare pull their children out of school for a family holiday, Sara won’t be receiving a fine from the local authority for non-attendance.
For the scientist, from
It has been two and a half years since Britain scrapped its Covid mask mandates, the controversial law requiring face coverings in public spaces. But as cases rise again, Spain announced last week that compulsory mask-wearing will be reintroduced in hospitals in order to ‘protect healthcare workers’. So could masks stage a comeback here too?
Certainly, UK hospitals are battling similar pressures. Some have declared ‘critical incidents’ as cases of respiratory viruses rocket sixfold in a month. Several hospital trusts
Queen Letizia of Spain appeared in good spirits today with her husband King Felipe after her former brother-in-law announced her will release a tell-all book detailing his claims about their ‘affair’.
The 51-year-old royal wrapped up warm in a chic cream coat during a visit to Gumersindo Azcarate School, which was the winner of Princess of Girona award School of the Year 2022 in Armunia, Leon, on Wednesday.
Letizia looked typically sophisticated in check trousers which she paired with a
Thanks to social media, and the streams of travel images we’re fed daily, true ‘hidden-gem’ and ‘off-radar’ locations are more challenging to come by than they once were.
The world has become more accessible.
But those hankering after an adventure that’s a little bit out of the ordinary can still find it – if they know where to look.
One worthwhile source to tap is the United Nations World Travel Organisation (UNWTO) and its Best Tourism Villages of 2023 list,
When it comes to royal scandals, the Brits have really streaked ahead this year.
Thanks to privacy-loving Prince Harry’s documentaries, biopic, and podcasts, the dirty laundry has well and truly been aired — from pet names to drugs, frostbitten penises to romps behind a pub — and to who really hates who (spoiler alert: Harry doesn’t like any of them) and even a racism scandal.
But the British monarchy is far from the only embarrassing European royals.
There is nothing
Well, here we are folks, at the end of another turbulent year.
When we put this list together at the end of 2022, its contents largely covered something many of us thought we would not see again in our lifetime: a major war in Europe. Now, we are grappling with two wars in our immediate neighborhood, as the slaughter drags on in Ukraine, and conflict rages between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
In Ukraine, the long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia, which
Parting from loved ones when you live on the other side of the world is always difficult, but as Princess Mary of Denmark wrapped up her pre-Christmas break Down Under earlier this week, her emotional goodbye took on a deeper significance.
Departing from Queenstown Airport in New Zealand after a four-day trip amid a visit to her native Australia, the future Queen appeared to wipe away a tear as she said goodbye to friends and prepared to make the journey
Chaos has hit both wings of Spanish politics—but while the left is still in government, conservatives have turned to Trump-style conspiracy theories.
It only took three weeks for Spain’s new coalition government to suffer its first internal crisis. On December
Is life for Britons actually greener away from the Motherland?
MailOnline Travel speaks with four British expats who certainly think so.
From a young couple who have tripled their spendable earnings in Vietnam to a builder who now enjoys lounging by his outdoor pool in Spain, they each reveal what they love about living abroad and what they miss most about the UK.
Spoiler… it’s not the weather!
Eilidh McGinness, a lawyer turned estate agent, moved from Inverness, Scotland, to
