a photo journal
23 July 2022
Italy's second-largest lake, Maggiore is one of Europe's more graceful corners. Arrayed around the lakeshore are a series of pretty towns like Stresa, Verbania, Cannobio and, on the Swiss side of the border, Locarno, and these serve as gateways to gorgeous Maggiore islands.
20 July 2022
At the heart of the Haute-Savoie, in the Valley of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, mountains loom large almost everywhere you look.
19 July 2022
Part of the Franco-Swiss Portes du Soleil region, Les Gets is one such traditional village in Haute-Savoie.
16 July 2022
In summer the harbourside promenade of Lindau has a happy-go-lucky air, with its palms, bobbing boats and folk sunning themselves in pavement cafes.
14 February 2022
The Sanctuary of la Mare de Déu de Sant Salvador is a monastery dating back to the mid-14th century.
13 February 2022
Puig des Tossals Verds (1118 m) is a peak in the central Tramuntana Mountains on the Balearic Island of Mallorca.
12 February 2022
At the end of the road on the cape rises this 19th-century lighthouse, with fine views to Cap Ferrutx to the south
11 February 2022
Rising in honey-coloured stone from the broad waters of the Badia de Palma, this enduring city dates back to the 13th-century Christian reconquest of the island, and to the Moors, Romans and Talayotic people before that.
02 December 2021
Las Palmas has a mainland-Spain feel, spiced up with an eclectic mix of other cultures, including African, Chinese and Indian, plus the presence of container-ship crews, and the flotsam and jetsam that tend to drift around port cities.
01 December 2021
The place where the wind and the sand create unique sculptures in the landscape and every Maspalomas sunset is spectacular.