Romania Mania
Jonathan Maitland, of ITV1's Package Holiday Undercover, samples the delights of the former Communist state
View ArticleFlock around the bloc: Where to holiday in Eastern Europe
Twenty years on from the fall of communism, Eastern Europe is now welcoming and affordable. Here's our guide to the most fashionable, lively and picturesque places to visit...
View ArticleHalloween holiday ideas to put the fright into your night
Are your Halloween plans lacking some bite? From Mexico's Day of the Dead fiesta to a tour of Vlad the Impaler's heartland in Transylvania, TravelMail has the answers...
View ArticleBlooming Bucharest: The affordable capital that oozes Parisian style
Many people confuse the vibrant Romanian capital with Budapest, but after a visit to 'Little Paris' Tamara Hardingham-Gill says you will never be confused again.
View ArticleBest river cruises: From UK and Europe to Russia and the Amazon
The river cruise will forever be the less flamboyant cousin of the ocean voyage. But there is still much to recommend this most leisurely of breaks, as Xanthe Whittaker explains.
View ArticleBlack Sea Cruise: Into the Valley Of Death in Ukraine
The Black Sea is a fascinating corner of Europe - and so significant in Britain's past, says Frank Barrett, as he cruises with ghosts of the Crimean War...
View ArticleDracula's Romania: A fang-tastic tour of Transylvania
He is the king of all horror villains, a be-fanged colossus who haunts novels and cinema screens. But what is the truth about Dracula? Wendy Gomersall heads into his home region of Transylvania.
View ArticleVolunteering holidays: Build a school, help orphans or care for chimpanzees
Whether you're excavating a Roman villa in Italy or helping disabled children in Vietnam in between seeing the sights, there's a volunteer holiday for everyone, finds Nicholas Roe.
View ArticleThe Romanian country retreat favoured by Nicky Haslam and Prince Charles
Interior designer Nicky Halsam has just bought a farmhouse in Maramures and Prince Charles has been singing its praises for ages. With rolling countryside and a peasant lifestyle almost untouched by...
View ArticleThe best destinations for winter sunshine
So summer is over. But that does not mean sunshine has to be a thing of the past for the next six months. You can still find warmth and relaxation. Victoria Gooch picks the best locations.
View ArticleBlack Sea cruises: Seen the Mediterranean? Time to put it all on Black
The Mediterranean is perfect for cruising, but what if you've been there, done that – and now fancy venturing further afield? It could well be time for you to try the Black Sea.
View ArticleBlack Sea cruise: Venice to Odessa on a luxury voyage into the past
It is a corner of the world that is sometimes overlooked in terms of cruising - but the Black Sea is a fascinating area for an ocean-bound holiday. Mark Palmer takes a voyage into the past.
View ArticleRiver cruises: Around the world in a luxury cruiser
It is an ideal way to see the world - scenery unfolding before your eyes as you move at a leisurely pace. And most of the world is accessible by river cruise. Caroline Hendrie picks the best.
View ArticleThe Danube Delta is a paradise for iconic birds - and for naturalists
The Delta is a world of water lilies, reeds and willow trees with no roads, and hardly a human, for hundreds of square miles. David Milne went to see how the cuckoo is thriving there.
View ArticleDracula holidays: Romania is alive with spooky secrets
It is famed, of course, as the home of Dracula. But while the shadow of Bram Stoker's creation is hard to escape, Nick Boulos finds that there is much more to Romania than vampires.
View ArticleDracula wasn't such a bad Vlad: On the hunt for Transylvania's famous vampire
A stay at 'Dracula Castle' can unsettle even the steeliest travellers. Hilary Macaskill travels to Transylvania to see if the land that inspired Bram Stoker's book matches up to the author's...
View ArticleExplorer Ed Stafford talks eating snakes and screaming at baboons
He is the explorer who once walked the length of the River Amazon - but Ed Stafford's latest adventure sees him trying to survive without clothes or tools in eight wild locations. He tells Chris...
View ArticleSteampunk pub in Romania transports visitors into world depicted in Jules...
Furnished with copper pipes and exposed mechanical gears, Joben Bistro looks like a space pulled straight from the pages of a Jules Verne or H.G. Wells novel.
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