Updated: May 23, 2020 | By Claire | More Elba is one of the most beautiful islands of Italy with crystal clear water. It is the third largest island of Italy – after Sicily and Sardinia. Its capital city is Portoferraio which is the largest city of Elba. The island is situated about 20km west […]
The Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge is Northern Ireland’s most thrilling short walk, a 20-metre-long suspension bridge swaying 30 metres above the churning Atlantic Ocean, connecting the mainland coast of County Antrim to the tiny rocky island of Carrickarede. Originally erected by salmon fishermen over 350 years ago, today the bridge is one of the Causeway Coast’s […]
Categories: Sights, Sights, Technical Monuments, United Kingdom
Monte Cinto (2,706m) is the highest peak on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, a challenging granite giant in the Monte Cinto massif that offers the most spectacular summit panorama on the island: on clear days, the entire sweep of Corsica from the Italian coast to the Gulf of Porto is visible from the top. Climbing […]
The turquoise waters lapping against the granite cliffs of Corsica are so clear that you can see the seabed 15 metres below. This island, known as the Isle of Beauty, rises from the Mediterranean like a mountain range submerged by the sea, its rugged peaks, dense maquis forests, and pristine coastline creating one of the […]
The white chalk cliffs of Jasmund National Park on Germany’s R\u00fcgen Island are one of northern Europe’s most dramatic coastal landscapes, gleaming white Cretaceous cliffs rising 118 metres above the Baltic Sea from ancient beech forest, immortalised in the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and now a UNESCO World heritage site. The K\u00f6nigsstuhl (King’s Chair) […]
Categories: Germany, National Parks, Nature, Nature
Oia (pronounced “EE-ah”) is the most photographed village in Greece, the iconic cascade of whitewashed Cycladic houses, blue-domed churches, and pastel-coloured neoclassical captains’ mansions clinging to the northern cliffs of Santorini that produces the single most recognisable image of the Greek islands, reproduced on a million postcards, Instagram feeds, and travel magazine covers. Perched on […]
The vaporetto cuts across the Venetian lagoon, carrying you away from the crowds of St Marks Square and out toward a cluster of islands that each tell a different story. Murano glows with the heat of furnaces where glassblowers have shaped molten silica for over seven centuries. Burano explodes in colour, each house painted a […]
