Travel

Whether you are looking for beach-side dining, spectacular views or traditional Greek tavernas, Mykonos has it all when it comes to fine dining spots. For an island that celebrates diversity, it is not surprising that there is a plethora of restaurants on offer that are either buried within the cosy whitewashed alleys in town or sprawled across the many miles of cost line. Fish is in abundance, mezze is widely served and local Greek wine punches with the quality of many...

For centuries, indigenous cultures have honored their shamanic healers as the bridge to spiritual healing,providing healing and blessings that help cure all manner of ills, both physical and spiritual. Throughout the world’s cultural history, the shaman has been consulted for both practical and pragmatic solutions to the everyday problems we face in life. Since the early 1900s, quantum theory has described the nature of the universe at the tiniest measures of energy levels while shamans have been manipulating that energy...

Read about Jay Williams's first week in northern Corsica here  We begin our second week on Corsica with a trip to St Florent, a cosmopolitan marina town known as the ‘St Tropez of Corsica’, armed with a picnic lunch. Although it’s always nice to shop local, I have to admit that the Spar stores here are amazing, with endless charcuterie choices. I found the general rule to be that the gnarlier looking the salami, the tastier, if that helps. Some...

LGBT tourists splash out an estimated £160bn annually on foreign holidays, but many choose to steer well clear of countries where homosexuality is still criminalised.

The best thing about living in London is that all the great European cities are just a hop skip and a jump away. Even closer than Europe is the famous cities that span the entirety of the UK. My partner and I are on a mission to get to know Britain better and embarked on a weekend trip to Oxford in March. Oxford, around an hour out of London, is home to some of the world's leading universities and exceptional...

Who says that an escape to the beach is the only holiday where you can truly relax and unwind by the water? Or that you have to leave Britain to experience a completely unique family break? In our constant quest to find holiday destinations which allow us to completely de-stress and recharge our batteries, we rarely look to our own backyard for inspiration. Which is why there has never been a better opportunity to visit a CLC World Travel Centre...

The night drive from Bastia to Murato is not for the faint-hearted.  It is an ear-popping, nerve-shredding pinball ride through the madly winding hilltop lanes of northern Corsica, where the white line in the middle of the road appears to serve purely for decorative purposes.  At one heart-stopping point a young wild boar leaps out of the gorse and into our path to stare us down.  His body language says: "It's a hire car, pally.  Even if you drive into...

If you’re planning your next cruise, there are some mouth-watering, short haul fly-cruise destinations on offer for the 2019 season. With so many popular places to choose from, you are spoilt for choice and won't have to negotiate a long connecting flight prior to relaxation on the water. Cruise destinations Spain, including the cities of Bilbao, Valencia, Malaga, Barcelona and Cartagena, along with the islands of Majorca, Menorca and Ibiza, remain high on the list of places that cruise passengers...

This month, TLE caught up with Willa and Luke, a teacher and a tech worker from Cali who packed their lives, bought a van and hit the road. They didn't choose the van life, the van life chose them... Tell us a little bit about you both? Hey all! Luke and I originally hail from Northern California. Myself from San Francisco, Luke from Merced. (Luke would like me to point out that it's in the central valley area- lot of...